Global research, vital for economic and social progress, remains largely inaccessible due to costly paywalls and inequitable publishing models. South Africa’s 2025 G20 leadership presents an opportunity to champion transformative, inclusive reforms in research publishing.
INASP and partners worked together during 2021, with a particular focus on: harnessing digital platforms and digital learning; supporting researchers to thrive; transforming higher education; and centring gender. Our annual review shares some of the highlights.
This chapter focuses on the Parliament of Ghana showing how its role in the SDGs is intertwined with its engagement with key aspects of the national evidence system, as well as reflective of deeper structural aspects of Ghana’s political economy – in particular the relations.