The IKI-CREAF project is a key international conservation initiative aimed at enhancing climate resilience for migratory waterbirds and the wetlands they depend on along the East Atlantic Flyway. Funded by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV), the project is coordinated by the Common Wadden Sea Secretariat as consortium lead.
In Ghana, the project is implemented by the Centre for Biodiversity Conservation Research (CBCR) in partnership with the Wildlife Division of the Forestry Commission.
The AV-STEC (Addressing Vulnerabilities Through Strengthening Transdisciplinary Engagement and Collaboration) project is a transformative climate resilience initiative focused on communities along the Volta Basin in Ghana and Burkina Faso, who are increasingly vulnerable to recurring flooding, particularly from the annual Bagre Dam spillage. Since 1999, this controlled release of water in Burkina Faso has resulted in destructive floods across more than 28 districts in Ghana, impacting infrastructure, farmland, livelihoods, and access to essential services.
As a consortium implemented by 26 institutions, URBANE is addressing this challenge of sustainable agriculture for food nutrition security, applying a One Health approach for tackling issues related to the application & intensification of peri-urban agriculture, as well as providing the necessary framework for its sustainable & safe application in different contexts. To achieve this, the project will be built around the principles of agroecology. URBANE is building on the extensive experience in agroecology of its partners whilst exploiting friendly tools & methods for measuring the progress & impact of the agroecological transition of farming.
Centre for Biodiversity Conservation Research (CBCR) is currently in partnership agreement with The Calgary Zoo Foundation (Canada) to support the Wechiau Community Hippo sanctuary (starting November 2019- December 2024). The sanctuary is a CREMA consisting of 20 communities working together to conserve Hippos and their habitat along the Black Volta. The collaboration seeks to facilitate capacity building, development and conservation efforts in the sanctuary to ensure sustained success of community conservation of hippos in the sanctuary.
Food security is inextricably linked with poverty. Thus, poor people are at a greater risk of food insecurity. The World Bank Organization describes poverty in this way “Poverty is hunger. Poverty is lack of shelter. Poverty is being sick and not being able to see a doctor. Poverty is not having access to school and not knowing how to read. Poverty is not having a job, is fear for the future, living one day at a time’. From the definition of poverty, it can be agreed that it is a complex societal issue that requires everyone’s attention.
To assess the current status of Ghana’s coastal Ramsar sites, nearly 30 decades after their designation, in order to determine their ecological health and continued qualification under the Ramsar criteria for designated sites. Key activities of the project included: Satellite imageries on the land use and land cover changes for all 5 Ramsar sites over a three-decade period obtained, field visits to collect data on water quality, macro-invertebrate community, fish and fisheries assessment, waterbird species and population.
