About PASIDA
Africa's expertise, organised.
Pan African Sustainability, Innovation and Development Associates exists because the continent does not lack expertise — it lacks the connective tissue that turns scattered expertise into visible, commissionable capacity.
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Mission
Connect, empower, mobilise.
To connect, empower and mobilise African professionals to deliver evidence-based solutions in energy, water and climate — and to make that expertise easy for institutions to find and commission.
Vision
Designed, led and delivered by Africans.
An Africa whose sustainable development is designed, led and delivered by Africans, informed by rigorous evidence and shared openly across the continent.
Origin
From a PAUWES cohort to a continental network.
PASIDA began among specialists connected to the Pan African University Institute of Water and Energy Sciences and is now open to African professionals across the continent and its diaspora — policy and technical, emerging and senior.
PASIDA Insights
An open publishing platform where African practitioners write for peers and decision-makers.
PASIDA Think Tank
Rigorous research, policy briefs and datasets produced with and for African institutions.
PASIDA Advisory
Commissioned technical and policy support delivered by assembled expert teams.
PASIDA Experts
A vetted, searchable roster that turns individual expertise into collective capacity.
Principles
What we hold ourselves to
African-led
Solutions are designed by people accountable to the communities that live with the results.
Evidence first
Positions are published with sources, methods and limitations stated plainly.
Open by default
Knowledge is public unless a client agreement requires otherwise.
Intergenerational
Early-career researchers work alongside senior practitioners, by design.
Continental, not national
Problems follow basins, grids and climate systems — so does the network.
Practical
Every output is judged on whether someone can act on it.
Operating model
How the organisation is held together.
Advisory Board
Independent oversight of strategy, ethics and research integrity.
Executive Director
Accountable for delivery, partnerships and the secretariat.
Research & Advisory leadership
Quality of research outputs and commissioned engagements.
Talent & Operations
Vetting, roster management, contracting and Associate payment.
Regional Coordinators
Continental coverage across North, West, Central, East and Southern Africa.
Associates & Contributors
The practitioners and writers who do the work.
Sustaining the work
Mission-aligned funding supports research, publishing and convening. Earned revenue from Advisory work and Associate placement builds delivery capacity and paid opportunity for African professionals. Each is reported separately.