Driving eco-innovation in Africa. Capacity building for a safe circular water economy.
Lancaster University is leading a major new project that promises to tackle major global development issues and improve lives in communities across two African countries. Funded with around £700,000 from the Global Challenges Research Fund Translation Awards call, through UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the ACTUATE programme will build on the work started in RECIRCULATE […]
Weather stations have been installed at the chief’s palace at Gbegbeyise and Umar Bun Hatab Islamic basic school at Madina Zongo to provide data for the Environmental Monitoring componet of WP2 research. The fencing of the two weather stations were undertaken from 19th – 23rd August by opinion leaders from Gbegbeyise with collaboration from their […]
[Taken from original article on Lancaster Environment Centre website] When Dr Nellie Kangwa was a young child she asked her father if she could become a boy, because she thought that being a woman in Zambia was just full of grief. Nellie is one of four female entrepreneurs from the Women Innovators Network for Africa (WINA) […]
Following on from his 2018 residency in Lancaster, Jacob Amengor, Assistant Water Quality Assurance Officer at Ghana Water Company Limited, with the support of the RECIRCULATE project, co-hosted a session at the International Water Association’s 2019 Conference Empowering Future Water Leaders: A Conference for Young Leaders, by Young Leaders held in Toronto in June 2019. […]
The WP3 research teams from three CSIR Ghana research institutes (Crop Research Institute, Insititute for Industrial Research and Water Research Institute) and Lancaster University converged in Kumasi for a project meeting. The teams viewed rice and tomato trials in progress and were given a tour of other facilities at the Crop Research Institute. The meeting […]
Residences provided colleagues who have attended workshops the opportunity to spend up to eight weeks working in Lancaster alongside the UK-based team. The nature of these residences had a common structure in combining formal support and training with hands-on peer-to-peer learning. WP 1 organised catch up lunches and thematic visits on a weekly basis. This […]