The following themes will broadly be covered during the conference:

  • 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, Decentralisation and Regional Governance
  • Land governance and management systems in Africa
  • 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
  • Public Procurement reforms
  • Value for money in public procurement
  • Transparency and accountability
  • Procurement fraud and corruption
  • Professionalization of public procurement
  • Trends in monitoring and evaluation
  • Evaluating progress of SDGs in African context
  • Professionalisation of Monitoring and Evaluation
  • Evaluation 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
  • Youth and the development challenge 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
  • Sustainable environmental management practices
  • Industrialization and the environment agenda
  • Climate change and the environment
  • African indigenous governance and knowledge management systems
  • Indigenous resource mobilization systems and practices
  • Culture and national cohesion
  • Community development and governance systems
  • Financial deepening and inclusion
  • Sustainable Development Goals and Social Transformation
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Challenges of University Management and leadership
  • Elections and democratisation 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
  • Human resource management systems
  • Leadership for effective societal transformation
  • CSO leadership and accountability
  • Women leadership
  • Youth and the leadership quest
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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
  • Gender main-streaming issues
  • Gender and policy
  • Gender and pandemics
  • Gender and 4IR technology
  • Gender and climate change