News & events
Announcements, events and updates from our work towards sustainable development, newest first.
Team CIC, four students from GIMPA’s School of Technology and Social Sciences mentored by Dr Nana Assyne, won first place at the StudentPreneur African Network Hackathon held on 6-7 March 2025. Their prototype was designed to minimise academic credential fraud in African universities.
The GIMPA-PURC Centre of Excellence in Public Utility Regulation (CEPUR) hosted a policy dialogue themed 'Accelerating Energy Transition in Ghana' on 5 March 2025. The Minister for Energy and Green Transition, John Abdulai Jinapor, delivered the keynote and announced plans for a Renewable Energy and Green Transition Fund; speakers included the Energy Commission and GRIDCo.
In March 2025 the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission, which regulates Ghana’s electricity and water utilities, launched strategic partnerships with GIMPA, UPSA, the International Growth Centre and the African Forum for Utility Regulators. The partnerships are intended to produce research, policy dialogue and training in emerging regulatory areas.
GIMPA hosted a screening of a climate change documentary produced by young filmmakers of the Ghana Youth Videography Programme, a collaboration with the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Wilfrid Laurier University and the Youth Climate Report. The Rector, Prof. Samuel Bonsu, said climate issues had become a significant concern needing urgent attention.
The International Criminal Court renewed its cooperation agreement with GIMPA on 4 December 2024 in The Hague for a further five years, sustaining internships, visiting professionals, seminars, research and scholarship opportunities for the LL.M in International Criminal Law and Justice through the African Centre of International Criminal Justice.
GIMPA’s School of Public Service and Governance and the Management Development Institute of The Gambia launched a collaborative Master of Arts in Public Sector Management, scheduled to commence in January 2025. The programme is designed for public and private sector professionals to strengthen governance and operational efficiency in West Africa.
A visit by John Smagula, Assistant Dean of Temple University’s Beasley School of Law, included an information session for GIMPA law students and alumni on 19 September 2024, opening LL.M and exchange opportunities and strengthening the schools’ academic collaboration.
Prof. Adwoa Yirenkyi-Fianko, Head of GIMPA’s Department of Management Science, published with Jemima Ottou a study of heavy metal concentrations in surface water of the Birim Basin after a one-year ban on artisanal and small-scale mining (Cogent Engineering, 2024). Her listed research interests include environmental sustainability of projects, water quality and treatment, and mining impacts.
GIMPA’s Research Newsletter (Vol. 1, Issue 1) features a study by Prof. Fanny Adams Quagrainie of the Business School on the entrepreneurial competencies of successful indigenous women entrepreneurs and their impact on poverty alleviation. The study drew on 27 indigenous women entrepreneurs and 80 poor persons who had benefited from their support.
As part of GIMPA Business School’s 2024 Business Week, the GIMPA Business Students Association held a community outreach at Dome Market on 20 April 2024, educating traders, many of them market women, on digital marketing, social media marketing, book-keeping and customer relationship management. The association also renovated the female ward (Ward 1) at Achimota Hospital.
The workshop on 8–9 April 2024 introduced civil society organisations and journalists to tools for using evidence in public policy.
Government, utility and private-sector representatives discussed water governance, access and cooperation at a World Water Day dialogue.
