Southern African Institute Collaborative Innovation and Organisation
SAICRIO envisions advancing scientific knowledge, innovation, and evidence across diverse fields including medicine, public health, economics, gender, and geography.
Our Vision
To advance the well-being and conditions of people and the environment through excellent interdisciplinary scientific research, knowledge, innovation, education, and evidence.
Our work involves
Global Health, Scientific Research, Human Rights, Climate Change, education and governance.
Our Mission
Create a centre of excellence for collaborative research in the southern region that contributes to policy development, knowledge management, cross learning, capacity development, mentoring and advance scientific research.
Our Key Services
Our Overall Values
- Accelerate Interdisciplinary Research: Institute avenues to accelerate interdisciplinary research that will lead to funded centres of excellence.
- Build a Collaborative Community: Build a vibrant community of collaborators through events and activities, core facilities, seed grants and external multi-PI/large grant applications.
- Establish Strategic Partnerships: Establish strategic partnership with academia, research institutes, and relevant government ministries to support research, education, and workforce development.
- Diversify Funding Opportunities: Pursue funding opportunities in research, monitoring and evaluation (M&E), report writing, data analysis (both qualitative and quantitative research), editing of reports and dissemination of results as a commercial entity.
- Advance Mentorship Programs: Create advanced mentorship curricula for masters, doctoral students, and postdoctoral scholars.
- Promote Institute and Research: Promote the SAICRIO and its research through media outreach, educational symposia, and other vehicles.
- Engage the Public and Stakeholders: Engage with the public to inspire and promote interdisciplinary research through public engagement and educational events and connect with stakeholders to influence future policy.
- Ensure Financial Sustainability: Secure the institute’s financial sustainability by increasing revenue from government, bi-and-multi-lateral donor agencies, non-profit organisations, philanthropic organisations and donors, and core facility usage.
- Pursue Regional and International Partnerships: Pursue Regional, Continental and International Partnerships for the development of local communities and attaining local solutions with greater productivity and output.