Our Focus Areas – The Think Tank

TheThinkTank.Africa tackles Africa’s most pressing challenges with a focus on five core areas, each designed to drive transformative change:

1. Agriculture & Food Systems:

Our vision is food security and self-sufficiency for a thriving Africa. We go beyond just agriculture, advocating for a holistic food systems approach. This includes integrating data from health, environment, education, trade, and markets to create a comprehensive understanding of the system and inform better decision making.
Beyond Agriculture: We recognize food security requires a systemic approach. Our food systems leadership goes beyond just agriculture.

2. Climate & Green Energy:

Contextualized Innovation: Our green energy expertise goes beyond just advising – we drive innovation. We develop and deploy context-specific renewable energy technologies, waste management systems, and recycling/reduction/reuse strategies. This ensures a sustainable future for African nations.
Moving Beyond Adaptation: We recognize that simply adapting to climate change is insufficient. Our team uses cutting-edge technological assessments to inform future-proof climate investments. We analyze data and trends to anticipate future challenges and opportunities, ensuring investments are aligned with Africa’s long-term development and sustainability goals and thus craft positions for Africa’s positioning in the global climate and green energy discourse.

3. Digital Inclusion:

Bridging the digital divide is paramount. We don’t just deliver technology; we ensure inclusive digital systems design. This means considering infrastructure, accessibility, and capacity building, with a focus on gender equality in access to information and resources. Our social inclusion strategies ensure equitable distribution of benefits from technological advancements.

Harnessing the Power of Tech: Our ICT and emerging technology expertise empowers African nations to leapfrog outdated systems. We champion solutions like geospatial analysis, AI, and machine learning to revolutionize sectors from agriculture to healthcare.
Bridging the Digital Divide: We go beyond just technology; digital inclusion is paramount. We design inclusive systems that consider infrastructure, accessibility, and capacity building. We are committed to achieving gender equality in access to information and resources through our social inclusion strategies. This ensures equitable distribution of benefits from technological advancements

4. Peace and Security Diplomacy:

Diplomacy: Peace and security are fundamental for Africa’s development; yet, every situational response needs to be context-specific. We provide expert contextual assessments and complement them with tried-and-tested approaches to design effective diplomacy tools and interventions for each situation. We translate these assessments into actionable multi-track diplomacy proposals with political, policy and thematic interventions, creating a holistic approach to peacebuilding and stabilisation.
Geopolitics and Africa’s agency: As the global political situation is rapidly evolving, we provide expertise in monitoring and providing analyses of emerging geopolitical developments with recommendations of appropriate technical, political and policy responses to articulate Africa’s voice and agency in global affairs. This includes emerging security issues as well as energy, socio-economic and political policies of African and other countries including multilateral institutions that can propel or impede the African development agenda.
Resource diplomacy: Africa owns a substantive amount of the world’s critical minerals yet, the ‘resource curse’ continues to plague regions where these critical minerals are located. As the global discourse on trade regulation, clean energy transition and security continues to de-prioritize the continent, we provide expert analyses and bold proposals to ensure that Africa is not a victim of its wealth; but has cumulative benefits to drive its development needs.

5. Data & Data Governance:

We believe in the power of data for informed decision-making. Our focus is on integrating data across various sectors to provide actionable insights for private sector, government and business intelligence. We also build capacity to leverage emerging technologies like AI and machine learning for data analysis, empowering African nations to make data-driven decisions. We also focus on building capacity to leverage emerging technologies like AI and machine learning for data analysis, ensuring informed decision-making.
Progressive Data and Security: With Africa’s security in mind, we analyse global trends and futuristic development in AI and big data; and advocate for the adoption of pro-African policies to ensure that technological advances do not infringe on the security, socio-political and economic rights of the African peoples. We champion for the just, fair and comparative benefit of the African people in the deployment, usage and transfer of emerging technologies.

6. Policy Influence

Evolving with Africa: We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all solutions. Our policy and strategy team, with over 20 years of experience, understands the ever-changing needs of Africa. We design dynamic and responsive policies that can adapt to evolving geopolitical landscapes and priorities.

7. Risk Management & Business Continuity:

Securing the Future: Innovation comes with inherent risks. Our team helps assess and propose risk mitigation strategies for groundbreaking solutions. We also define the investments needed to ensure long-term sustainability of these innovations.

8. Communication and Public Relations

Communication and PR play pivotal roles in transforming Africa and we believe in creating the African Narrative: Africa Must Speak for itself. We facilitate the creation and dissemination of innovative communication and public relations tools to tell the African story , by building awareness and understanding, creating collaboration platforms, engaging stakeholders, advocating for policy change, empowering local communities, driving investment and inspiring change across the continent.

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1. Agriculture & Food Systems:

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4. Peace and Security Diplomacy:

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6. Policy Influence

7. Risk Management & Business Continuity:

8. Communication and Public Relations

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