Development of rivers for hydropower has conventionally come at a high cost in terms of riverine livelihoods and ecosystems. The Akosombo dam, which was completed in 1965, formed Lake Volta, the largest man-made water storage reservoir in Africa and the world.
The Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa was an ESPA (Ecsystem Services for Poverty Alleviation) funded research programme designed to deliver much-needed, cutting-edge science on the relationships between ecosystems, zoonoses, health and wellbeing, with the objective of helping people move out of poverty and promoting social justice. The project investigated whether disease regulation as an ecosystem service is affected by changes in biodiversity, climate and land use, with differential impacts on people's health and well-being.
Implementation period :June-July, 2008 Donor: Commonwealth Secretariat (through the Development Planning Unit, DPU of the University College of London, UCL
Brief Description of Project Objectives and Achievements:
Implementation period: 2007/2008
Donor: CGIAR Challenge Programme/ International Water Management Institute
Brief Description of Project Objectives and Achievements
Implementation period: 2007/2008
Donor:United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
Brief Description of Project Objectives and Achievements : The project aimed to support the efforts in the conservation and management of wetlands, water catchments, flood plains and forests to enhance the availability and provision of safe drinking water for all Ghanaians. The project had two main outputs:
The project was implemented under a collaborative agreement with the Institute for Sustainable Water, Integrated Management and Ecosystem research (SWIMMER), University of Liverpool (UK). Other partners brought into the implementation Water Resources Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research(Ghana) and the Ghana Wildlife Society.
The Centre for African Wetlands (CAW) in Ghana has recently finalized its project co-funded by AEWA entitled “Priority setting and conservation of migratory waterbird species at key coastal sites in Ghana”.
The project aimed at gaining a better understanding of trends in populations of waterbird species, reviewing the importance of Ghana’s coastal wetlands for waterbirds as well as advocating enhanced management of designated Ramsar sites and protection of other key sites for waterbirds.