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.
The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Joseph Ghartey Ampiah, has led an eight-member delegation from the University of Cape Coast (UCC) to the United States of America (USA) to strengthen the relationship between UCC and some selected Universities in USA.
The visit, which forms part of the University’s internationalisation strategy, especially North-South cooperation initiatives in higher education, was intended to explore fruitful partnership opportunities for strengthening capacity building, research, student mobility, resource sharing, faculty exchanges, among others.
Mr. Andrew Karas, the out-going United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Missions Director to Ghana, has paid a working-visit to the Central and Western Regions. The visit, apparently his last in the current position, was aimed at monitoring the progress of USAID projects in the two regions.