Regulation and Policy
Global Regulatory and Policy Guidance Documents
Biotechnology Regulation in Africa
African countries are at various levels of establishing, implementing, and strengthening biosafety frameworks with laws and regulations to ensure responsible use of these new technologies.
Implementing robust biosafety measures is as required by the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety of the Conventional of Biological Diversity (CBD), which all African countries except Equatorial Guinea, Sao Tome and Principe, and South Sudan have ratified, is essential to prevent unintended consequences and to manage potential risks associated with gene technologies.
Biosafety regulatory frameworks in Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda and Sweden and their potential impact on international R&D collaborations
Ongu I, Olayide P, Alexandersson E, Mugwanya Zawedde B, Eriksson D, GM Crops Food, 14(1):1-17. 2023.The African continent should consider a harmonized consultative and collaborative effort towards coordinated policy and regulatory guidelines across the fields of biotechnology
Tlou Samuel Masehela, Eugenia Barros, Front Bioeng Biotechnol, 20207:29:00. 2023.Regulation of gene drive technologies for malaria control & elimination
Tags: VideoIfakara Health Institute, 2023.
The video talks about the importance of ensuring effective and thoughtful community and stakeholder engagement throughout research, development and deployment of gene drives for malaria control.
CRISPR: challenges to South African biotechnology law
S. Pillay and D.W. Thaldar, University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2018.Biotech Innovation in South Africa: Twenty Years in Review
Donrich W. Jordaan, Biotechnology Law Report, Vol. 35, No. 1. 2016.Developing a Biosafety Law: Lessons from the Kenyan Experience
Karembu M, Otunge D., and Wafula D., ISAAA AfriCenter, Nairobi, Kenya, 2010.Towards a smart biosafety regulation: The case of Kenya
Ann Kingiri and Seife Ayele, Environ. Biosafety Res. 8, 2009.Status of biotechnology in Africa: challenges and opportunities
Makinde, Diran, Luke Mumba, and Aggrey Ambali, Asian Biotechnology and Development Review, 11.3. 2009.The Development of Biosafety regulation in Africa in the context of The Cartagena Protocol Legal and Administrative Issues
Patricia Kameri-Mbote, 11/1 Review of European Community and International Environmental Law, 2002.Media
African Biotechnology Regulatory Landscape
2023.Explore the status of regulatory governance, from research and development to open-release applications for consumer products and health care such as malaria control in an interactive map.
Biotechnology and Biosafety in the Biodiversity Convention and its Protocols
Tags: VideoGeneConvene Global Collaborative, 2022.
Dr. Piet van der Meer provides a clear exposition of the history of the Convention on Biological Diversity and puts in the the broader context of the development of biotechnology beginning with the first recombinant DNA containing organisms in 1972. He also describes and ...
Regional Development of Regulatory Policies on Gene Drives and Risk Assessment
Tags: VideoGeneConvene Virtual Institute, 2020.
In this Webinar Dr. Martin Lema discusses how well biosafety regulatory frameworks in Latin America can accommodate new genetic technologies such as Gene Drive.
Overview of Regulatory Frameworks Covering Gene Drives Oct 21 2020
Tags: VideoGeneConvene Virtual Institute, 2020.
These are two webinars presented around the topic of an Overview of Regulatory Frameworks Covering Gene Drives. The presenters were Ms. Wadzi Mandivenyi from the Convention on Biological Diversity and Dr. Marion Law from the World Health Organization. These presentations were ...
