The ENDA, CODESRIA and FTM Experience
Before leaving IDEP, Samir Amin had made the necessary arrangements for the future by creating several institutions within the Institute. Initially he had founded them as programmes of IDEP, in order to get them their first funding.
However, his plan was to transform them into independent entities once they were able to raise their own funds.One of these institutions is Environment and Development Action in Africa (ENDA), which later became ENDA Third World. This institution has grown and seized its independence. It has spread beyond the frontiers of the African continent, with offices in Latin America and Asia.
Another institution was the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), conceived on the model of the Latin American Council for Social Sciences (CLACSO). CODESRIA was structured as a kind of federating body for institutes and research centres from or linked to universities, in order to organize a systematic debate on the essence of problems and challenges in all their dimensions. CODESRIA became a larger research institute with international influence, bringing together universities and research centres on the continent, and establishing close contacts with similar institutions in Latin America and Asia.
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