Knowledge contribution for economic development is relatively less from Africa compared to the rest of the world. ASPROWORDA is a good initiative to filling the attendant gap

Policy recommendations that are founded on robust research are indispensable to formulating and implementing development policies that are consistent with data. ASPROWORDA is a promising agenda in this direction for Africa

Putting women at the centre of research and development as is doing ASPROWORDA is fundamental to contributing to the achievement of SDGs because in addition to SDG-5 that stands alone on gender equality, more than half of the 17 other SDGs have integrated gender dimensions that are in line with the mission statement of APROWORDA