Organisation
South African Foreign Policy Initiative
The South African Foreign Policy Initiative (SAFPI) is a programme established by and based at the Open Society Foundation for South Africa (OSF-SA) in Cape Town.
SAFPI is intended to promote understanding of the ways in which South Africa articulates its foreign policy principles on the international stage in service of realising a more equitable world order. It is envisioned as a multi-year project with its relative permanence hopefully permitting SAFPI to become a centre of excellence in thinking about how SA's foreign policy behaviour and articulation of global governance might promote greater fairness, for the individual and state.
The main goals of SAFPI are to:
SAFPI is intended to promote understanding of the ways in which South Africa articulates its foreign policy principles on the international stage in service of realising a more equitable world order. It is envisioned as a multi-year project with its relative permanence hopefully permitting SAFPI to become a centre of excellence in thinking about how SA's foreign policy behaviour and articulation of global governance might promote greater fairness, for the individual and state.
The main goals of SAFPI are to:
- establish itself as an independent institution which assesses South Africa's foreign policy in reference to the domestic and external drivers that influence Pretoria's national interest and
- to embark on other significant areas of inquiry as these impact on South Africa's foreign policy in the evolving international arena
Published Documents
- Providing development aid to Africa : comparing South Africa with China, India and Brazil
- E. N. Tjonneland / South African Foreign Policy Initiative, 2013
- South Africa’s planned development aid agency, South African Development Partnership Agency, is expected to be established in 2013. This provides a good opportunity to assess South Africas current role as provider of development ...
