ABOVE: At the Science Forum South Africa on December 12, 2018, organizers unveiled the Good Financial Grant Practice (GFGP). Pictured in the front row (left to right) are grant recipients who have trialled the GFGP, followed by Tom Kariuki, the director of programs at the Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa at the African Academy of Sciences, Nelson Torto, the executive director of the African Academy of Sciences, Michael Kilpatrick, senior advisor to GFGP, Raymond Murenzi, director Rwanda Standards Board, and Berhanu Abegaz, former executive director of the African Academy of Sciences.
FLICKR, AFRICAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
For every grant his university won, Robin Drennan had to perform due diligence exercises—responding to a dozen queries from worried funders and certifying that the grant money won’t go to waste before it was released.
“In practice, it’s answering 500 questions,” he says. “Do you have a policy on corruption? Do you ...
