The ADRCAFRICA was registered in Nigeria with the Corporate Affairs Commission in 2012. It is engaged in economic research, advocacy and training for both public and private groups. Its programmes are organized around two broad themes namely:
Though young, the ADRCAFRICA is manned by some of the best and most experienced minds in the economic research and consulting space in Africa and has some of the most advanced trade researchers who have been involved in issues of trade at the highest levels across the globe. This is in addition to having an array of international publications in the area of trade policy design and implementation.
A number of its researchers are allied with regional and global bodies like the African Economic Research Consortium (Nairobi, Kenya), the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (Dakar, Senegal), the International Development Research Council (Ottawa Canada), the Economic Modeling Group of the Free University of Belgium (Brussels, Belgium) and the University of Pretoria, South Africa among several others. Members of the team have also worked for the United Kingdom Department for International Development (UK DFID), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Central Bank of Nigeria and several other institutions both within and outside Nigeria.
The ADRCAFRICA is managed by a lean secretariat made up of the following:
A significant proportion of the work of the Centre is conducted through a pool of Research Fellows. These are non-resident, mostly senior researchers and professionals covering a wide range of disciplines in the social and human sciences that are affiliated to the Centre. Most of these are drawn from Universities, Research Centres and Professional Groups within and outside the catchment area of the work of the Centre. They form a pool from which the Centre draws at very short notices for its expanding work. Presently, there are over 20 such research fellows covering such areas as Economics, Political Science, Agricultural Economics, Management, Sociology and Public Policy.
Though young, the ADRCAFRICA is manned by some of the best and most experienced minds in the economic research and consulting space in Africa and has some of the most advanced trade researchers who have been involved in issues of trade at the highest levels across the globe. This is in addition to having an array of international publications in the area of trade policy design and implementation. A number of its researchers are allied with regional and global bodies like the African Economic Research Consortium (Nairobi, Kenya), the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (Dakar, Senegal), the International Development Research Council (Ottawa Canada), the Economic Modeling Group of the Free University of Belgium (Brussels, Belgium) and the University of Pretoria, South Africa among several others. Members of the team have also worked for the United Kingdom Department for International Development (UK DFID), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Central Bank of Nigeria and several other institutions both within and outside Nigeria.
The institute is also involved in training and capacity building. Some of the beneficiary institutions of training by resource persons at the Centre include the Central Bank of Nigeria, First Bank of Nigeria, Abia State Planning Commission, United Bank for Africa Limited, Abia State Statistical Agency, Nigeria Economic Summit Group, South East Economic Summit Group.It has also conducted baseline and feasibility studies for a number of institutions including:
ADRCAFRICA