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PART A: SAMRC MANDATE
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increased funding for STI. The critical enablers that Strategic Plan 2025/26 – 2029/30 and APP 2026/27,
the Decadal Plan focus on are the increased funding, and also through partnership, collaborations and
joint programming and coordination, high-level and engagements with different stakeholders.
technical skills for the economy, transdisciplinary
knowledge creation, increased linkages between 4.5 Sustainable Development Goals
government and business, and improved monitoring In 2015, the United Nations Members States adopted
and evaluation.
the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, core
The SAMRC will contribute to the deliverables of the to which are the following seventeen Sustainable
Decadal Plan through Programme 3 of both SAMRC Development Goals (SDGs).

Figure 1. Sustainable Development Goals

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