Ghana

Climate Resilience Across the Rural-Urban Continuum

Research project Projected and existing severe impacts of climate change in West Africa’s Sahel interact with high population growth and livelihood insecurity and fragility. The resulting increased mobility and rapid urbanisation further challenge local governments’ ...

Period: 2021-10-1 to 2026-09-30 Countries: Burkina Faso Ghana Lead institution: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Partner institutions: University of Development Studies (UDS), Ghana University Joseph KI-Zerbo (UJKZ), Burkina Faso International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering (2iE), Burkina Faso Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), United Kingdom Project code: 20-11-KU Total grant: 11,983,689 DKK

Climate Change Resilience of Ecosystem Services

Research project The project ‘Climate Change Resilience of Ecosystem Services (CRES)’ aims to increase foodand income diversity and climate change resilience of agricultural systems in West Africa. The focus is on six highly important, native multipurpose trees (Adan ... First year report: CRES aims to improve and diversify local income potentials in Ghana and Burkina Faso through a selection of best varieties of native tree species, value-added products and innovative marketing. It has a website ( https://cres.gr ...

Period: 2021-04-1 to 2026-03-31 Countries: Burkina Faso Ghana Lead institution: University of Development Studies (UDS), Ghana Partner institutions: University Joseph KI-Zerbo (UJKZ), Burkina Faso Association Ragussi (ARAG), Burkina Faso University Norbert Zongo (UNZ), Burkina Faso Savannah Fruit Company (SFC), Ghana Organisation for Indigenous Initiative and Sustainability Ghana (ORGIIS-GHANA), Ghana B4Trees Aps (B4T), Denmark Stjernekommunikation (STJK), Denmark Aarhus University (AU), Denmark Project code: 20-13-GHA Total grant: 11,999,402 DKK

SWASH: Sustainable Wastewater Systems for Ghana

Research project SWASH (Sustainable Wastewater Systems for Ghana) delivers new research knowledge and capacity strengthening for Ghanaian institutions to achieve water sustainability. The 3 year project undertakes extensive fieldwork in the rapidly growing coastal ci ...

Period: 2022-10-1 to 2025-09-30 Countries: Ghana Lead institution: Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark Partner institutions: University of Ghana (UG), Ghana Project code: 21-M02-RUC Total grant: 4,983,065 DKK

Energy struggles: renewable energy in Africa

Research project The overall objective of this project is to contribute to a better understanding of how a transition to renewable energy can occur in sub-Saharan Africa. Many countries have set targets for solar and wind, but implementation has been slow and uneven. ... First year report The overall objective of the Energy struggles research project is to contribute to a better understanding of how an energy transition can occur in sub-Saharan Africa. The project’s research objective is to analyse how new renewab ...

Period: 2021-09-1 to 2025-08-31 Countries: Ghana Tanzania Lead institution: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Denmark Partner institutions: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana University of Ghana Business School (UGBS), Ghana UNEP DTU Partnership (UNEPDTU), Denmark Project code: 20-09-DIIS Total grant: 11,952,903 DKK

Developing Ghana’s care economy: case and potential

Research project Unpaid provision, mainly by women, of early childcare and long-term care (LTC) of frail older people within their families is globally a major driver of gender inequality. The time poverty and negative health impacts associated with unpaid care prov ... First year report Many well-qualified candidates (34) responded to the open call for the position as PhD students. After a thorough selection process we recruited four candidates with background in psychology, public health, development economics ...

Period: 2020-04-1 to 2025-03-31 Countries: Ghana Lead institution: Aarhus University (AU), Denmark Partner institutions: African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), Kenya University of Ghana (UG), Ghana Project code: 19-06-AU Total grant: 10,295,438 DKK

Coastal Community Resilience to Climate and Diarrhoea

Research project Global climate change will impact human health in various ways, including increasing the occurrence of waterborne enteric diseases such as diarrhoea, especially in poor and vulnerable communities that have low adaptive capacity. The relationship betw ... Midterm report Objectives: The project is progressing according to its workplan in meeting its overall goal to build resilience to climate change and improve diarrhoeal management in coastal communities in Ghana. Under WPs 1, 2 and 3, data has bee ...

Period: 2020-03-2 to 2025-03-3 Countries: Ghana Lead institution: University of Ghana (UG), Ghana Partner institutions: Aarhus University (AU), Denmark People´s Dialogue on Human Settlements (PD), Ghana Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Ghana Project code: 19-10-GHA Total grant: 11,969,990 DKK

Building climate-resilience into basin water management

Research project Anthropogenic activities including illegal and uncontrolled mining and logging have seriously degraded the landscapes of many river basins in West Africa posing significant challenges to sustainable water resources management (WRM). Climate change (C ... Midterm report Over the past 3 years, the project has made significant progress in all the key research areas of climate, hydrology, ecosystem valuation, water system optimization and water governance. Comprehensive literature reviews on water gov ...

Period: 2019-03-1 to 2025-02-28 Countries: Ghana Lead institution: Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Ghana Partner institutions: Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Denmark Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMet), Ghana Hydrological Services Department (HSD), Ghana Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana SIRCOOL Mineral Water Company Limited, Ghana Aarhus University (AU), Denmark Central Queensland University (CQU), Australia Project code: 18-13-GHA Total grant: 11,998,167 DKK

Building vegetable farmers resilience to climate change

Research project The proposed project seeks to help vegetable farmers adapt to climate change and enhance vegetable production through research on heat, drought and disease tolerant vegetable varieties, soil health, irrigation and water management in vegetable produc ... Midterm report Objectives There were 7 objectives in total. Objectives #1, 2, 4, 5 and 7 = 50% completed Objective #6 is 70% completed Objective #3 is 100% completed Status of Outputs: About 60% completed PhD status All five PhDs have ...

Period: 2020-03-1 to 2025-02-28 Countries: Ghana Lead institution: Aarhus University (AU), Denmark Partner institutions: University of Ghana (UG), Ghana Agropal West Africa Limited, Ghana The Conservation Alliance (CA), Ghana Fasterholt Maskinfabrik A/S, Denmark Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark University of Cape Coast (UCC), Ghana Project code: 19-04-AU Total grant: 11,999,444 DKK

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