The 2022 edition of the ISSER Short Courses Programme opened on May 30 with the Executive Leadership Programme in Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) for Public and Private Sectors, the first of four short courses being organised this year by the Institute.

ISSER will on Tuesday, June 7, 2022 launch the Retail Financial Distribution Research (ReFinD) research initiative, a new multi-million dollar project focused on deepening digital financial inclusion and improving women’s access to financial services in low and middle-income countries.

The event will be held at the ISSER Conference Facility and feature the Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr Ernest Kwamina Addison as guest of honour, and stakeholders from the digital finance sector.

ISSER has hosted an inception workshop featuring early childhood education stakeholders in Ghana and Sierra Leone to launch the “Teacher Capacity Building for Play-based Early Learning in Ghana and Sierra Leone” project – a collaborative study aimed at enhancing the capacity of teachers to implement innovations in play-based learning at early childhood levels of education.

The 2022 edition of the ISSER Roadshow, organised jointly with the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), attracted the participation of diverse communities providing an inclusive platform for discussing pressing development issues, while enabling knowledge sharing and learning.

The event was held on 11 May 2022 at the Jophus Anamuah-Mensah Conference Centre of UEW, chaired by UEW Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Andy Birikorang, who represented the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Mawutor Avoke.

ISSER will take a trip next week to Winneba for the 2022 edition of the ISSER roadshow. The event will be held on 11 May at the Jophus Anamuah-Mensah Conference Centre (JAM), at the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), in partnership with the Faculty of Social Sciences Education.

The event will provide a platform to discuss the findings of recent publications by the ISSER, namely the State of the Ghanaian Economy Report (SGER) 2020 and the Ghana Social Development Outlook (GSDO) 2020, alongside recent developments in the Ghanaian Economy.

Dr. Simon Bawakyillenuo has co-authored three policy briefs, as part of ISSER’s collaboration with the Penn Development Research Initiative (PDRI).

The links for the individual briefs are as follows:

Prof. Peter Quartey, Director of the Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana has been appointed to serve on the external advisory board of the Africa Hub for implementing the University of Warwick Africa Partnerships Strategy (WAPS).