Institutional design and management of a continental research fund in Africa

But the authors of the report in 2014 caution in the misinterpretation that this means Malawi is one of the largest investors in research and development on the continent. [...] These efforts aimed to establish research in the legal framework of the EC as a competency of the European community and the ability of the EC to fund individual researchers through the ERC, when previously EC funding focused on consortia and collaborative research for specific priority areas. [...] The implications of the composition of the governance structures and the relationship between strategy and programme implementation and evaluation are discussed further below in terms of choices and processes of prioritisation (see: Strategy, Scientific evaluation and grant decision-making, Relationship management). [...] This failure of governance and implementation due to the lack of separation of technical implementation team from political functions caused a major disruption to the research system, leading to many of the research fellows suing the Ministry for lack of good management of the scholarships. [...] The predecessor to the NRF (the National Science and Technology Board) was established thanks to the collaboration of two champions at the time – the Chair of the Economic Development Board and the Minister for Trade and Industry, who is now the PM.