BENEFITS OF PUBLISHING IN THE AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT CHARTER

ADC is published in partnership with European Research Organizations and other International Research Organizations.

1. ADC will make all content freely available to all researchers worldwide, ensuring maximum dissemination of content through web links. This affords author(s) opportunity to be widely cited.
2. Where a research advocacy is strong and very useful, author(s) will be invited through the publishing organizations to provide technical and professional framework for formulating and implementing such policy advocacy in ongoing research projects to either the organization or the government of such partnering country. This of course, is an opportunity for career development and professionalism.

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RESEARCH COORDINATOR AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT CHARTER
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How to contribute a Chapter to the African Development Charter

The African Development Charter is an initiative for collaborative research with the European Research Organizations, to address Thematic Development Challenges in Africa and other Third World Countries. Opportunity is still open to interested researchers to contribute Chapters to the Charter.

WHERE TO BEGIN

FIRST, indicate an interest by sending an abstract/research proposal by e-mail to the RESEARCH COORDINATOR identifying research interest based on the theme of the Charter Series. It must summarize the paper including the research methodology, data collected, findings and policy implications. Please ensure that your research topic is focused and is in line with a specific development challenge in any developing country of the world.

Type of Paper/Chapter: The paper types ranges from Single Authored Study, Collaborative to Institutional. Comparative research studies are given higher ratings. Follow the guide below,

GENERAL GUIDELINES
We only accept the proposals /manuscript(s) written in English. Authors are allowed to use both American and British version of English but with consistency.

TITLE PAGE
Title page is generally a separate page and come before the text of the manuscript. It should include following details in the given format & sequence:

NAMES OF CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS

First Author¹, Second Author², Third Author^3
1Department, Name of Organization, State, Country, Email address, Phone numbers
²Department, Name of Organization, State, Country, Email address, Phone numbers
³Department, Name of Organization, State, Country, Email address, Phone numbers

STRUCTURE OF THE MANUSCRIPT(S)

• Title of the paper
• Name of Authors and affiliations (with author(s) email)
• Abstract (Maximum 150 words)
• Keywords (Maximum five words)
• Introduction – basic knowledge about the subject matter, statement of the research, objectives, research questions/ and or hypotheses, significance and area of the study.
• Main body – contemporary and relevant literature and theoretical framework, explanation of methods, data used, instrumentation, results and discussion etc.
• Conclusions: must summarize the study identify its position
• Recommendations: recommendations must be evidenced-based and practicable
• Acknowledgement (If any)
• References: use APA references style
  (See LINK: http://www.waikato.ac.nz/library/study/guides/apa.shtml)
  - Photographs: JPG and GIF format only and Inserted immediately after the citation in the text.
  - Table(s): Times New Roman, Font size-10 and Inserted immediately after the citation in the text and table titles are to be above the table.
  - Figure(s): Figure captions should be placed below the figure.

PUBLICATION PROCESS

1. After receiving author(s) manuscript, the author will receive a confirmation e-mail within one or two working days. If you have trouble in receiving or finding confirmation e-mail, kindly check your junk e-mails folder or put your complaints to the Research Coordinator via e-mail.
2. We are using double blind peer-review system in which identity of author(s) remain anonymous to the reviewers (and vice versa) to make the review process fair. The review process may take 07 days to 10 days.
3. If the reviewer(s) recommend for publication, then author(s) will have to prescribe mentioned publication fee, mostly in naira, pounds, euro or dollars. The article will be published online in the Institute website and abstracted in other International indexes, then latter within 30 working days, the hard print will be published and copies sent to author(s).

Objectives of the African Development Charter (ADC)

1. ADC is a dynamic and creative collaborative initiative at advancing the course of sustainable development in developed and developing countries.
2. ADC is committed to publishing high quality, independently peer-reviewed research and review materials.
3. A key strength of ADC is its linkages with International Repositories, which guarantees open access to researchers, government and development agencies that need such advocacies for policy formulation and implementation.

• ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES (ECOWAS)
• ECONOMIC INSTITUTE OF CAMBODIA (EIC), PHNOM PENH
• ECONOMIC POLICY RESEARCH CENTER, KAMPALA, UGANDA
• FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS (FAO)
• GROUPE DE RECHERCHE EN ECONOMIE APPLIQUEE ET THEORIQUE (GREAT)
• HARVARD UNIVERSITY, HARVARD INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (HIID)
• UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT (UNCTAD)
• U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (USAID)
• U.S. TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (USTDA)
• NIGER DELTA DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION
• UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
• THE RESEARCH CORPORATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII
• GUIDANCE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
• AFRICAN INITIATIVE FOR DEVELOPMENT EVALUATION
• THE CENTRE FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA (CSDA)
• AFRICAN CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND INFORMATION NETWORK
• AFRICAN FOUNDATION FOR DEVELOPMENT OF INFRASTRUCTURE AND SOCIAL SERVICES IN RURAL COMMUNITIES
• INDIANA ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
• INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RURAL RECONSTRUCTION
• AFRICA SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL (ASUDEC), BURKINA FASO
• NIGERIAN INTEGRATED RURAL ACCELERATED DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION (NIRADO)
• FEDERAL MINISTRY OF WOMEN AFFAIRS AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Scope of the International Research Collaboration Initiatives

Our interest in the collaboration is in the following areas,

1. Disseminating research publications: This is an intrinsic element of all good research practice, whatever the discipline. Apart from publishing in journals, information and knowledge has a tendency to stay where it is generated, wide dissemination provides access to knowledge and added value as the impact of such research findings can be potentially wider than the original focus.

How do we go about this? Indexing published journals in the Institutional websites. The International Institute for Policy Review & Development Strategies has an E-International Library Link to most African Universities, where research publications are preserved and disseminated to interested parties; individual researchers, post graduate students, government and non government institutions involved in promoting the course of development, etc. in the immediate past, communiqué raised in our conferences have been useful reference documents for policy formulation, implementation and evaluation.

2. Enlightenment to researchers: Interest in research and publications is becoming more significant in the academia. Researchers need opportunities outside their domain to publish. Our collaboration will provide opportunities for enlightening researchers of existing opportunities in our Institutes.

3. Jointly organize Research Summit and publication of a Development Pact: This is to bring together researchers from different nations to share ideas on particular research subject matter. The summit will also be an opportunity to train researchers on new trends in research. Issues discussed in the summit or conference may be published in journals, but most significantly, it will lead to the production of Books of Reading, based on selected themes.
Beyond our reach, the Development Pact initiative and the African Development Charter project is an advanced strategy to promote collaborative research and knowledge dissemination for the purposes of sustainable development in the world at large.