The South African Foreign Policy Initiative (SAFPI) is a programme established by and based at the Open Society Foundation for South Africa (OSF-SA) in Cape Town.
SAFPI is intended to promote understanding of the ways in which South Africa articulates its foreign policy principles on the international stage in service of realising a more equitable world order. It is envisioned as a multi-year project with its relative permanence hopefully permitting SAFPI to become a centre of excellence in thinking about how SA’s foreign policy behaviour and articulation of global governance might promote greater fairness, for the individual and state.
The main goals of SAFPI are to:
- establish itself as an independent institution which assesses South Africa’s foreign policy in reference to the domestic and external drivers that influence Pretoria’s national interest and
- to embark on other significant areas of inquiry as these impact on South Africa’s foreign policy in the evolving international arena