Abstract:
Ethiopia’s collaboration with RSIF: Ethiopia is a founding member of PASET. Ethiopia
participated at the 5th PASET Forum and has expressed
its intention to contribute to RSIF. The Minister of Science
and Higher Education represents Ethiopia in the PASET
Governing Council (GC), and the Director for Capacity
Building, sits in the PASET Executive Board (EB).
The potential of Ethiopia’s innovative expansion due to
investment in RSIF is multiplied when leveraged by the
funds through matching support from various donors,
including the Government of Korea, international partner
institutions and others.
By contributing to RSIF, Ethiopia will benefit from joint
resource mobilization with other countries and capacity
building for PhDs and research and innovation far into
the future. PASET aims to mobilise over USD 500 million
into the RSIF permanent fund, with an estimated 20%
to be allocated to research and innovation projects for
the benefit of citizens and institutions of participating
countries. Many African countries are interested to be
part of this.
