In support of the Government of Ghana’s (GoG) initiatives on food security, the United States Government (USG) through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is supporting a five-year capacity building program for fisheries and coastal management in Ghana. The project contributes to GoG’s overall grand fisheries and coastal development objectives and USAID’s Feed the Future (FtF) Initiative, the USG led global hunger and food security project designed to enhance economic growth in beneficiary countries.
A three-day work planning workshop was held by the USAID/UCC Fisheries and Coastal Management Capacity Building Support Project last week, from 25 to 27 July 2017, to set project activities for the fourth year of its implementation as well as map out strategies for their execution.
CCM together with the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences on 24 th June, 2017 joined the Hen-Mpoano, an implementing partner on the Wetlands Ecological Health Monitoring Project activity on a field trip to Azulewanu and Ampain near Essiama in the Western Region.
The short course on Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Coastal Areas of Ghana is one of four courses organized by CCM at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) as part of tthe USAID/UCC Fisheries and Coastal Management Capacity Building Support Project's commitment to operationalise the Centre. The 5-day workshop admitted sixteen (16) participants this year. All participants were drawn from municipal/district assemblies in the Volta region of Ghana.
Twenty coastal area management practitioners from districts within Ghana’s coastal zone participated in the just ended five-day short course on Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) at Anomabo.
The workshop which was organized by the Centre for Coastal Management (CCM) at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Coast (UCC) was partly funded by the USAID/UCC Fisheries and Coastal Management Capacity Building Support Project.