NEWS & UPDATES

STAKEHOLDERS REVIEW CLIMATE CHANGE- MIGRATION NEXUS IN WEST AFRICA

The MiTra-WA (Migration and Trans-locality in West Africa) Project consortium has held a two-day workshop in Kumasi, Ghana, to review planned research activities and assess global progress. The Project, coordinated by WASCAL, Stakeholders in the Mitra-WA project have reviewed research activities on data collection and preliminary results on the progress reports and climate services.Prof. John Continue Reading

STAKEHOLDERS MEET TO SHAPE THE PATH TO THE OPERATIONALIZATION OF WEST AFRICA REGIONAL HUB OF THE INDEPENDENT GLOBAL STOCKTAKE (IGST)

The WASCAL Competence Centre, based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, has hosted a one-day national workshop of the Independent Global Stocktake (iGST) West Africa Regional Hub. The objective of the workshop was to report the outcomes of the regional assessment on the characterization and engagement of climate civil society in West Africa, build the capacity of Continue Reading

“ ‘CLIMATE CHANGE’ RESEARCH AND POLITICS: AFRICA AND GERMANY –WALKING THE PATH TOGETHER” BMBF MINISTER

BERLIN: The Federal Minister of Education and Research, Germany (BMBF), Madam Bettina Stark Watzinger, has lauded the many successes chalked by West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted and Use (WASCAL and the Southern Africa Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management (SASSCAL), through the partnership of BMBF over Continue Reading

AFRICAN MINISTERS ENGAGE GERMAN PARLIAMENTARIANS IN BID TO INTENSIFY CLIMATE CHANGE PARTNERSHIP

West and Southern Africa Ministers responsible for Climate Change have visited the German Bundestag (The German Parliament), in Berlin, as part of a two-day inter-ministerial meeting to round off a decade of climate partnership between Africa and Germany through the West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) and the 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