GovInn Senior Researcher Dr. Robin Bourgeois presented GovInn’s work on SDG 16 “Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions”, at the 1st  South African-French Science and Innovations Days  conference organized by The French Embassy in South Africa, in collaboration with the DST and the NRF during 2-3 December 2019. The event took place at the CSIR Convention Centre, Pretoria. Dr Bourgeois highlighted i) some of the results  of the study of local justice systems in Namibia (http://governanceinnovation.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/GovInn-Working-Paper-02-2019.pdf), ii) the anticipatory approach used for the preparation of the SDG16 section of the goal report GovInn produced as a contribution to the country report by StatSA on the achievement of the SDGs in South Africa, and a holistic approach to the SDGs as a network of interconnected elements. The full presentation and related notes can be found here.