News & events
Announcements, events and updates from our work towards sustainable development, newest first.
The GIMPA Research Newsletter (September 2025) features a UNU-WIDER study by Daniel Chachu, Michael Danquah and Rachel Gisselquist proposing a measure of local government performance in Ghana using 2016 and 2020 data. It finds improving administrative reporting but generally low subnational institutional performance, with implications for decentralisation reform.
GIMPA hosted the first annual conference of the African Management Development Institutes Network at the GIMPA Executive Conference Centre, Achimota, from 28 to 30 April 2025. The theme was 'Enhancing Governance and Public Administration in Times of Polycrises Through Collaboration, Policy, Evidence, Technology (AI) and Innovation for Service Delivery'.
GIMPA and the Lesotho Institute of Public Administration and Management signed a memorandum of understanding in Maseru on 10 April 2025 to collaborate on public sector reform, capacity building and institutional development. The Lesotho Minister of Public Service, Stephen Mpuntu, pledged support for LIPAM’s institutional strengthening under the partnership.
GIMPA Law School convened its two-day 2025 Law Conference on 3 and 4 April 2025 at the Dr. Daniel McKorley Moot Court on the theme 'Climate Justice in Ghana: The Role of Law and Policy Towards Sustainable Development'. The Dean, Dr Kwaku Agyeman-Budu, announced plans for climate law courses at LL.B and LL.M levels and a dedicated Research Centre on Climate Law. The Minister of State for Climate Change and Sustainability also spoke.
