NEWS & UPDATES

EXPERTS CALL ON THE GOVERNMENT TO EXAMINE CLIMATE CHANGE AS A CAUSE OF RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION

ACCRA. Experts of the Rural-Urban Migration and Cross Border Migration in West Africa (MIGRAWARE), a research initiative under the West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL), in partnership with the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany (BMBF), and other German and West African partners have called on West Continue Reading

ENHANCING DISASTER RISK REDUCTION IN AFRICA: UNDRR AND NETWORK OF CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE TRAIN EXPERTS IN EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS

ACCRA, Ghana: In response to Africa’s vulnerability to the threats and risks of disaster, which undermines the development and safety of the continent, the United Nation’s Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), in partnership with its Network of Centres of Excellence is building capacities of Africans to enable them to tackle the issue through the Continue Reading

INDEPENDENT GLOBAL STOCKTAKE (IGST) WEST AFRICA REGIONAL HUB LAUNCHED

The Independent Global Stocktake (IGST), West Africa has been launched in Ouagadougou. After a successful organization of six (6) national workshops across West Africa, to co-design the roadmap of the operationalization of the West African regional hub in the last three months, members of the iGST West Africa Regional Hub have met in in Ouagadougou Continue Reading

WASCAL DONATES 5 WATER LEVEL SENSORS TO WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Accra, Ghana WASCAL has donated four (4) automatic water level sensors and one (1) water quality sensor to the Water Research Institute in Accra. This contribution aims to address the challenges of hydrological data availability and collection in the West African region and facilitate research, capacity building, and service development in the face of Climate Continue Reading

WHO WE ARE

WASCAL (West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use) is a large-scale research-focused Climate Service Centre designed to help tackle this challenge and thereby enhance the resilience of human and environmental systems to climate change and increased variability. It does so by strengthening the research infrastructure and capacity in West Africa related to climate change and by pooling the expertise of ten West African countries and Germany.

OUR MISSION

To provide information and knowledge at the local, national, and regional levels to its West African member countries to cope with the adverse impacts of climate change and devise integrated mid and long-term options to build up resilient and productive socio-ecological landscapes. We do this through capacity building and environmental services in West Africa