ISSER has commissioned a 10-million Ghana Cedi multi-purpose building to help meet the Institute’s need for additional spaces and improved facilities and to support its continued growth and performance.
The building, known as the ISSER Office Complex and Digital Centre, comprises an office complex, a digital centre or data hub, an ultra-modern library complex, seminar rooms, and a gymnasium.
To analyse the dynamics of agricultural commercialisation and agrarian change across East, West and Southern Africa, an e-dialogue was convened by the Agricultural Policy Research Programme (APRA) in partnership with the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and Foresight4Food (F4F) on 20 January 2022. The event began with participants engaging in three parallel regional presentations and discussions for East, West and Southern Africa, and culminated in a continental-level panel involving expert commentators and audience questions.
A view of the ISSER Office Complex and Digital Centre
The Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana is set to commission a new multi-purpose building. Known as the ISSER Office Complex and Digital Centre, the building comprises eight offices with a kitchen and a gym, a 100-seater computer laboratory or data centre, three conference breakout rooms, and an ultra-modern library complex.
Participants got the opportunity to interact with climate researchers. Regina Mensah (left) and Charles Hombey (right) shared their climate experience and adaptation strategies.
The annual collaboration workshop of the Ghanaian-German Centre for Development Studies (DAAD) was held on 30 November 2021 at the ISSER conference facility. The event brought together programme collaborators, Ph.D. supervisors and lecturers, students, and alumni to reflect on the DAAD programme, exchange ideas, and plan for the future.
The Board of Directors of the Regional Network of Agricultural Policy Research Institutes (ReNAPRI) during their meeting held on 2nd December 2021 elected Prof. Peter Quartey as Finance Chairperson of ReNAPRI.
Over the next three years, working alongside the ReNAPRI Secretariat, Prof. Quartey will provide financial oversight to the ReNAPRI network of which ISSER has been a member for the past 3 years.
Persistent rural poverty in Northern Ghana also affects families’ nutrition. In spite of Ghana’s tremendous recent advances against poverty overall, poor nutrition in the northern regions, particularly among young children, could limit further progress for rural families.
Vice President (Arts), Prof. Kofi Opoku Nti, FGA decorates Prof Quartey with the brooche of membership. Photo credit: University of Ghana
ISSER Director, Prof Peter Quartey joined participants of the Project Cycle Management Short Course on 29th October 2021, completion day of this short course, for a brief closing ceremony. The last short course for this year, the closing ceremony for the Project Cycle effectively drew the curtains on the 2021 round of ISSER short courses.
Mrs. Justina Adwoa Onumah, candidate of the 2016 PhD cohort at the Institute of Statistical, Social, and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana has been awarded an international prize of Best PhD Student Paper presented at the 17th Global network for the Economics of Learning, Innovation and Competence building Systems (GLOBELICS) Conference, held in Costa Rica from 3rd to 5th November, 2021.
