Program areas at SID
Financing for Development - SID is coordinating the global civil society platform participating and contributing to the official finance for development dialogue process. In this respect, the costs pertain to the organization of civil society preparatory events and participation in formal events of the FfD process.
Enabling Tanzania's Competitiveness - this project involved a study to understand how to improve the competitiveness of small and medium sized enterprises in Tanzania. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) comprise 95% of all businesses and contribute to 35% of the country's GDP. SID sampled actors in the agriculture (including horticulture), renewable energy, finance, the blue economy, and tourism sectors with a view to understanding the challenges they were facing vis-a-vis improving their competitiveness and prepared a series of engagements with policy makers with a view to understanding how best government and the development community might respond to the constraints and opportunities reported.
Nexus programming aims at deepening SIDs systemic analysis and guiding our formulation of current narratives, with the intent of figuring out more robust policy propositions in the face of today's "syndemic" failures. It also aims to enhance SID's facilitating role in the cross-sectoral dialogue among separate constituencies, towards improved collective action building. This line of work rings together activities in rethinking food systems, global health initiatives, corporate encroachment and takeover of multilateral decision making spaces as well as the broader challenges that global governance must contend with in the current age.
SID Futures progamme uses scenario planning to promote reconciliation and policy dialogue around topical questions. The use of the future as a space for dialogue enables diverse stakeholders to meet and explore options and opportunities without feeling the need to be held back by the divisions of the present and the past. SID's work in this area encompasses a broad area of engagements from territorial (Ethiopia) to focusing on critical contemporary questions such as climate change and renewable energy.
Next Generation Futures Practitioners - this pilot program involves setting up a cohort of young individuals (age < 30) interested in foresight and futures and working with them to mentor them and build their capacity to use futures and foresight methodologies to address critical development challenges within their communities.