News & events
Announcements, events and updates from our work towards sustainable development, newest first.
Margaret Obimpeh, Head of Personal Banking at GCB Bank PLC, led a virtual Student Affairs webinar on personal branding on 31 March 2026, helping GIMPA students present themselves effectively in professional and career settings.
GIMPA’s Office of International Programmes and Development held an International Day and Education Fair at the Moot Court on 25 March 2026 under the theme 'Global Citizenship: Building Bridges Through Education'. The event promoted internationalisation, intercultural engagement and global academic collaboration.
GIMPA’s School of Public Service and Governance and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration of the Democratic Republic of Congo agreed to establish a bilingual Governance School in Kinshasa for Francophone Africa, modelled on GIMPA’s Economic Governance School and planned for the fourth quarter of 2026. Student and faculty exchanges are to begin in September 2026, with an annual bilateral conference from 2027.
GIMPA Training and Consulting offers an online Certificate in Law and Governance running over nine Saturdays from 7 March 2026, for up to 60 participants. The programme covers legal principles, compliance and governance practice for professionals and other individuals.
GIMPA Training and Consulting concluded an eight-week programme covering Monitoring and Evaluation, Health Leadership and Administration, and Global Health for professionals from public and private health institutions. The Institute also announced newly developed courses in Bioethics and Clinical Psychology to address healthcare delivery, medical ethics and mental health management.
GIMPA Training and Consulting held a graduation ceremony on 27 February 2026 for 61 health professionals who completed its four-week Health Administration and Management (HAM) programme. Participants came from health facilities across several regions of Ghana. The Director, Prof. Kenneth Ofori-Boateng, urged graduates to drive efficiency and champion quality care in Ghana’s health sector.
GIMPA Training and Consulting offers a four-day course on the science of climate change, its impacts and mitigation and adaptation strategies. It targets environmental science students, climate professionals, policymakers, development planners, NGO representatives and business leaders in climate-affected sectors, with a cohort starting on 23 February 2026.
GIMPA Training and Consulting runs a five-day course on Data Science and Business Analytics Using Python from 23 February to 6 March 2026 at GIMPA Main Campus, for up to 30 participants. Modules cover Python foundations, data wrangling with Pandas, exploratory analysis and visualisation, and statistical analysis; no prior Python experience is required.
Students and staff of GIMPA’s Takoradi Satellite Campus toured Abave Inspections Ghana at Ahanta West on 13 February 2026 to see industry standards, safety protocols and operations at first hand, and honoured the company’s chief executive, Yaa Amoako-Adu, with a citation.
GIMPA held a two-day Leadership and Health Resilience Seminar for staff, management, health-sector stakeholders, alumni and students, led by Professor Jill Klein of Melbourne Business School and Melbourne Medical School. Sessions covered resilience in leadership, stress management, learning from mistakes, a growth mindset and mental and emotional well-being.
In partnership with SBP Africa, the Office of the Dean of Students ran the Career Kickstart webinar on 20 November 2025, with HR professionals Mavis Ofori of PZ Cussons and Bridget Appiah showing students how to convert internship experience into full-time employment.
A study by Francis Clottey Odonkor and Prof. Stephen T. Odonkor, published in Crop Protection and featured in GIMPA’s Research Newsletter (March 2026), surveyed 1,484 vegetable farmers on pesticide use. It reports that 75.9% used suitable pesticides while 70% acknowledged negative health effects, and documents unsafe disposal such as burning containers (56.9%).
