Community education
Documentaries, contests, seminars and tree planting that bring young people into climate and environmental action.
GIMPA hosts climate and environment activities for young people, several of them with KAS. They include the Ghana Youth Video Programme climate change documentary and its screening, a youth video contest on plastic waste solutions, a seminar on human rights in small-scale mining, and tree planting as one of eight institutions marking UN@80.
GIMPA was one of eight institutions in Accra chosen for the UN in Ghana’s '8 Trees for 8 Decades’ symbolic tree planting marking the 80th anniversary of the United Nations. Deputy Rector Prof. Ebenezer Adaku represented the Institute; seedlings of fruit and indigenous species were supplied by the Forestry Commission and custodianship of the trees was assigned to host institutions.
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.
GIMPA, with the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, held the maiden Youth Experts Video Contest on Plastic Waste Challenges and Solutions, themed 'Reimaging Plastic: Youth Solutions for a Sustainable Future'. Nine young filmmakers from Greater Accra, Western and Ashanti regions made five-minute documentaries on plastic waste management; winning entries proposed turning plastic waste into fuel, paving blocks and bricks.
GIMPA and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung held a day-long seminar on human rights in Ghana’s small-scale mining sector, attended by mining professionals, academics, human rights activists and officials from ministries and the Forestry Commission. The Rector, Prof. Samuel Kwaku Bonsu, gave the keynote 'Organising Precarity: Ghana’s Artisanal Small-Scale Mining Sector in Five Stanzas’.
GIMPA hosted the Ghana Youth Video Programme, screening a climate change documentary made by young Ghanaian filmmakers, followed by a panel discussion with environmentalists and academics. Partners were the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Wilfrid Laurier University and the Youth Climate Report; the filmmakers’ stories were intended for presentation at COP28 in Dubai.
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