Founded on May 2005, Higher Education South Africa (HESA) is the successor of: the South African Universities Vice-Chancellors Association (SAUVCA) and the Committee of Technikon Principals (CTP). The launch of HESA was in part driven by the restructuring of the higher education sector, which resulted in the establishment of new institutional types, but also by the need for a strong, unified body of leadership. The HESA’s vision is “to be the unified body of leadership in a transforming, dynamic and diverse system of higher education”.
Founded in 1980 in the town of Nazareth, Ethiopia, by a group of social scientists for Southern Africa, the Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA) is a non-governmental and non-profit research network. OSSREA membership base is drawn from social scientists and institutions engaged in teaching or research in the social sciences in eastern and southern Africa. Currently, there are 21 member countries in the region where OSSREA has national chapters and liaison offices. Institutional membership is also available and open to all institutions engaged in the promotion of research in the social sciences in Africa.
The African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE) was founded in 2005 at Kenya by over 80 representatives of African universities, research and development institutions, business and the public sector from 24 countries. Now, the association has over 451 registered members working in over 100 subjects in agricultural and resource economics as well as in other social sciences, spread in over 24 African countries and worldwide. The association aims to improve liaison between agricultural economists with an interest in African issues at the regional and international levels. The aim is to promote training, research, policy dialogue and interest in Agricultural Economics on the continent of Africa and to contribute to broad-based rural development, poverty reduction, food security and sustainable use of natural resources in the continent of Africa.
Founded in 1999, the African Evaluation Association (AfrEA) is an “umbrella” organisation for more than 20 national associations and networks in Africa, and a resource for individuals in countries where national bodies do not exist. AfrEA works with the national networks and interested partners on the continent and worldwide to develop a strong African evaluation community. AfrEA aims to promote and strengthen evaluation in Africa, contribute to development that is real and sustained, promote Africa rooted and Africa led evaluation, encourage the development and documentation of high quality evaluation theory and practice. Other aims are to establish and support national African evaluation associations and special evaluation interest groups, facilitate capacity building, networking and information sharing on evaluation among evaluators, policy makers, researchers and development specialists and finally to share African evaluation perspectives and expertise at relevant forums.
Founded in 1988, the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) was initially set up as a framework for better coordination among development agencies. ADEA is first and foremost a forum for policy dialogue, and aspires to represent a genuine partnership between African education and training ministries in Africa and their technical and external partners. It has also developed into a network of policy-makers, educators and researchers, and tries to foster policy dialogue.
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The African Association of Physics Students (aaps) is an African, non-political, non-governmental, non-profit-making, student-run educational association. It comprises of students and recent graduates who are interested in physics. The association aims to encourage physics students in their scientific and professional work in an African and also an international context as well as to promote relations between physics students from all over the world. The aaps is open to all persons committed to physics, and is committed to supplement physics education with an international scientific experience and it is affiliated with Physics societies and departments.
ALA is the African Literature Association which was founded in 1975. The association publishes two different periodicals: a) the Journal of the African Literature Association (JALA), and b) the ALA Newsletter. In partnership with Africa World Press/Red Sea Press, ALA also publishes the annual proceedings of the ALA Conference. To expand the work of the association; ALA has established four caucuses and numerous standing committees that members can contribute to.
The International Education Association of South Africa (IEASA) is a non-profit organisation, established as a result of the need for universities and universities of technology in South Africa to respond to international educational trends. IEASA aims to ensure that South Africa will remain competitive within the global economic environment and that higher education provides opportunities for students to obtain a global perspective to their studies. Also IEASA mission is to advocate, promote and support the internationalisation of Higher Education by providing a professional forum for institutions and individuals to address challenges and develop strategic opportunities in international education in Africa and the rest of the developing world.
The Association of African Universities (AAU) was founded in Morocco in 1967. Today AAU has about 200 members drawn from 45 African countries. The Association is the top organisation and forum for consultation, exchange of information and co-operation among institutions of higher education in Africa. In addition AAU provides leadership in the identification of emerging issues and support for debating them and facilitating appropriate follow-up action by its members, partners and other stakeholders. The association vision is to “is to maintain the AAU as the representative voice of the African higher education community both within and outside Africa”.
Founded in 1971 in Freetown, Sierra Leone, AAPAM is the African Association of Public Administration and Management. With its head quarters in Nairobi, Kenya, the association is an international professional, non-profit organisation with the aim to promote best practice, excellence and professionalism in public administration and management leading to sustainable leadership capacity development in the African public services. The AAPAM has over 500 members, from top administrators and managers from many African nations and also professionals, who teach, conduct research and offer advisory services to individuals in public administration and management. Also the association receives subventions and grants from African governments and some donor institutions interested in enhancing the development and professionalization of public administration and management.
