IDEP High-level policy dialogues serve to contribute to the promotion of a research-policy nexus in Africa. The policy dialogues provide a one to two-days platform for debates on the experience of post-independence Africa in all fields of economics and development planning. It offers a fora for African policy makers, researchers and development practitioners to engage in structured multistakeholder debate on major issues for the development of Africa and, identify through the sharing of knowledge, experiences and perspectives, all possible actions and policy solutions. Each of the policy dialogues brings together about forty participants on average to discuss one strategic issue of Africa’s structural transformation and sustainable development in its various dimensions through more than three thematic sessions.