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The core mission of the CSIS Africa Program's is to conduct sustained and timely applied research and analysis on the major elements of U.S. policy toward Africa, with the aim of substantially shaping discourse in Congress, the executive branch, and among private interest groups. The program fills a critical need in Washington for Africa policy analysis that is centrist, activist, and forward looking-analysis that defines what's at stake and offers policy recommendations that are timely, nonpartisan, and practicable.
The program's substantive focus is forward-looking, emphasizing new and emergent dimensions of U.S.-Africa policy, including U.S. policy to combat HIV/AIDS and infectious disease; priority conflict zones; critical bilateral relations; and rising U.S. energy stakes. The program assembles a diversity of important U.S. interests-from the human rights community, the corporate sector, relief organizations, congressional staff, administration officials, academics, and activists. The program also provides a platform to visiting African opinion leaders and seeks to integrate as much as possible African perspectives into the Washington policy dialogue.
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