Scholarships and the GIMPA Endowment Fund
Bursaries and scholarships for brilliant but needy students, financed through the GIMPA Endowment Fund.
SDG 1
No Poverty
End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
Explore this goal.
Development Impact West Africa (DIWA) evaluations
Impact evaluations and evidence summits on poverty, agriculture and health, presented by GIMPA researchers through Development Impact West Africa.
Research, programmes & evidence.
DIWA 2025 Development Impact Summit presents maternal health and agriculture evidence
Development Impact West Africa, a partnership between GIMPA and the Center for Effective Global Action, hosted the 2025 Development Impact Summit in Accra on 26 and 27 August 2025, themed 'Advancing Evidence-Informed Policymaking for Sustainable Development in West Africa'. Presentations included the impact of Ghana’s free maternal health policy on infant and child feeding, and irrigation for smallholder farmers.
Study on energy poverty and health outcomes in Ghana featured in Research Newsletter
The GIMPA Research Newsletter (Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2026) features a study by Kwasi Nyame-Baafi, Joseph Kofi Agyapong Darmoe, Williams Ohemeng and Michel Adurayi Amenah assessing the effect of energy poverty on health outcomes and healthcare-seeking behaviour in Ghana. It calls for integrated policies that expand access to clean, affordable energy.
Research on measuring local government performance in Ghana
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.
Study on indigenous women entrepreneurs and poverty alleviation in Ghana
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.
GIMPA announces scholarships for about 100 needy students from February 2023
In July 2022 the Rector, Professor Samuel Kwaku Bonsu, announced that GIMPA would from February 2023 offer scholarships to about 100 needy students to read specially designed undergraduate courses. The programme, described as a corporate social responsibility initiative, was to include work placement, travel abroad and community service.
GIMPA lecturer presents MASLOC microloan poverty evaluation at DIWA summit
At the maiden Development Impact Summit of Development Impact West Africa (DIWA), a research initiative hosted by GIMPA with the Center for Effective Global Action and funded by the Hewlett Foundation, GIMPA lecturer Dr Richard Boso presented an evaluation of MASLOC microloans. He reported that borrowers were more likely to remain in business during the COVID-19 period than non-borrowers.