Conference Themes:
The aim of the conference is to share knowledge on the theory and practices of the broad fields of leadership and governance in a changing complex world. The scope of the conference will cover academics and practitioners in a number of sessions that have been lined up under the themes that are multidisciplinary. Authors and practitioners have a wide range of areas/topics where they can share their research and practice with conference participants. The themes listed are only a guide but are not all that exhaustive. The following themes will be broadly covered during the conference:
Theme 1: Society, Governance, and the Development Agenda
- Rule of Law, Elections, Democracy, and Human Rights
- Accountability, Participation and Service Delivery
- Public Financial systems and Reforms
- Administration of Justice and Society cohesion
- Governance, leadership, and Administration of Educational Institutions
- Governance, leadership, and administration in Health Contexts
- Corporate Governance and Business Management Best Practices
- Corruption, Public service delivery, and Society
- Public sector Reforms and Administrative Efficiency
- Gender and the Governance Agenda
- Local Governance, Decentralization and Regional Governance
- Land governance and management systems in Africa
Theme 2: Oil and Mineral Resource Governance and Management
- Managing the Oil fund for sustainable development
- Dynamics of globalization on oil Governance
- Environment concerns and oil exploration
- The downstream and upstream issues in oil
- Minerals Management systems
- Health and safety management
Theme 3: Public Procurement Governance
- Public Procurement reforms
- Value for money in public procurement
- Transparency and accountability
- Procurement fraud and corruption
- Professionalization of public procurement
Theme 4: Monitoring and Evaluation Practices in Diverse environments
Trends in monitoring and evaluation
- Evaluating the progress of SDGs in the African context
- Professionalisation of Monitoring and Evaluation
- Evaluation of research in diverse contexts
- Monitoring and evaluation of education outcomes
- Monitoring and evaluating healthy delivery and outcomes
- Monitoring and evaluation of agricultural services
- Monitoring and evaluating engineering works and projects
- Monitoring and evaluation in the civil society sector context
Theme 5: Student Governance and Youth Enterprise Management
- Youth and the development challenges in Africa
- Youth unemployment and dangers to development
- Employability of graduates in Africa
- Responsible and productive student leadership
- Student strikes and protests and education outcomes
- Better student governance
Theme 6: Environmental Governance and Community Development
- Sustainable environmental management practices
- Industrialization and the environment agenda
- Climate change and the environment
- Sustainable rural development
Theme 7: Indigenous Governance, culture, and knowledge systems
- African indigenous governance and knowledge management systems
- Indigenous resource mobilization systems and practices
- Culture and national cohesion
- Community development and governance systems
Theme 8: Industrialization and Development
- Financial deepening and inclusion
- Sustainable Development Goals and Social Transformation
- The human capital development and economic growth
- Agriculture for Rural Development
- The hospitality industry and economic growth
- Resource acquisition and value for money
- Infrastructural development and economic growth
- Cross-border trade and economic growth
- Public-Private Partnerships
- Corporate financing and risk management
Theme 9: ICT Governance and the Knowledge revolution
- The dimensions of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
- Infrastructure Governance and development
- E-Governance
- Mobile money financing trends
- Electronic banking and procurement
- Automated financial management systems
Theme 10: National and International Development Frameworks
- Visioning the African Continent
- Development Planning interventions in Africa
- Manpower and Human Resource Management systems and Economic Development
- National Values, ethos, and citizen accountability systems
- Role of academia, CSOs, media, and Religious Institutions in Society
Theme 11: University Governance and Management
- Challenges of University Management and leadership
- Elections and democratization of university management
- Effective oversight by university councils
- Corporate governance best practices in university contexts
- University politics and threat to academic transformation
- University human resource and financial systems
- Universities and the stakeholder management frameworks
- University partnerships in African contexts
Theme 12: Leadership and performance management systems
- Human resource management systems
- Leadership for effective societal transformation
- CSO leadership and accountability
- Women leadership
- Youth and the leadership quest
Theme 13: Global Health Pandemics Management
- Digital health literacy in Africa
- Ability to test, trace, and conduct surveillance during Covid-19 pandemic in Africa
- Impact of Covid-19 and lockdown on health care workers
- Inconsistent public health messaging
- Information overload and fake news
- Role of social media during pandemics and crisis
- Development of Smarter Healthy Cities in Africa
- Documenting Covid-19 responses in Africa
- Frontline health workers and the managing of pandemics
- Institutional designing for responses to health crises
- Crowdfunding health responses to pandemics
- Telemedicine and e-health in the context of pandemics
Theme 14: E-learning Technologies
- E-learning challenges in rural settings
- Student engagement in online learning during pandemics
- Using technology to enhance students’ performance and the outcomes
- The state of e-learning systems in Africa
- E-education training programmes
- Digital literacy in Africa
- Socio-economic affecting e-learning in African countries
- Strategies to overcome online learning problems/ challenges
- ICT infrastructural issues and e-readiness
- ICT policies and communication technology gaps/ deficits in Africa
- E-learning, inequalities and equal access to education
Theme 15: Public-Private Partnerships
- Public–private partnerships in times of pandemics and crisis
- Risk management in the PPP context
- Stakeholder management in the PPP context
- Strategies to manage PPPs PPP contract designing for success
- Best practices/lessons of experience in expediting PPPs
- Sector-specific coverage of PPP experiences
Theme 16: Tourism and Hospitality Management
- Tourism and hospitality management in times of crisis
- Tourism and hospitality management in times of pandemics
- ICT And Tourism in times of pandemics
- Rural Tourism during Covid-19
- Crisis management in tourism
Theme 17: Agriculture and Environmental Management
Sustainable agriculture in developing countries
- Sustainability and environmental management
- Food security in times of crisis, pandemics and wars
- Food waste management in Africa
- Genetically modified crops in Africa
- Biologically Integrated Farming Systems in Africa
- Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in Africa
- Nutrition & Food Systems Education in Africa
- Organic Farming in Africa
- Agritourism in Africa
- Agroforestry in Africa
- Biofuels in Africa
- Famines and climate change in Africa
- Conservation tillage in Africa
- Controlled Environment agriculture (CEA) in Africa
- Agro-Cooperatives in developing countries
- Food processing and agricultural employment in Africa
- Precision Agriculture (SSM) in Africa
- Soil Nutrient Management in Africa
- Postharvest Management Practices in Africa
- Technological innovation and Agricultural reforms in Africa
- Urban Agriculture culture and practices in Africa
- Green agriculture and green transitions in agriculture
- Livelihoods, biodiversity and ecosystem management
- Environmental politics and sustainable agriculture
Theme 18: Gender issues
- Gender main-streaming issues
- Gender and policy
- Gender and pandemics
- Gender and 4IR technology
- Gender and climate change
