1. Global Bio-Energy Partnership Sustainability Indicators in Ghana.

Overview

To collect information on sustainability issues related to bio-energy, analyze the information and use this for the design, development, steering and implementation of policies related to sustainable bio-energy production and use.

Objectives

a. To collect the most appropriate available data, to be used for the indicators.

b. To assess the usefulness, availability and quality of the collected data.

c. Propose baseline values for the most important (sub) indicators.

Coordinators & clients

Simon Bawakyillenuo; CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana & CSIR-Institute of Industrial Research

 

2. Promoting Participatory and Evidence Based Agricultural Policy Processes in Africa.

Overview

 The project is to conduct research with stakeholders and policy makers with a view to increasing political performance that will result in more effective and poverty oriented policies and strategies

Objective

To identify practical institutions and strategies that will help policy maker’s administrative staff at the central and local levels as well as civil society to reduce poverty and promote sustainable growth.

Coordinators & clients

Felix Asante & Dr. Michael Johnson (IFPRI), Paul Dorosh (IFPRI), James Fields (IFPRI)

 

 

3. Innovative Models for Secondary Education in Africa Scope of Work.

Overview

The research seeks to identify and explore innovative skills for enhancement in Africa and Asia

Objectives

a. To identify skills that students in developing countries need in order to best position them for employment opportunities.

b. Explore innovative models of teaching these skills to secondary students

COORDINATORS & CLIENTS

Dr. Ernest Appiah ,Results for Development(R4D),Rockefeller foundation.

 

4. Skills Defined by Curricular in sub-Sahara Africa Scope of Work.

Overview

The project will identify and explore innovative secondary education for skills enhancement in Africa and Asia.

Objectives

a. To understand the resources and infrastructure needed to scale up the most effective models

 b. Identify skills that secondary school students currently have.

Coordinators & clients

John K. Anarfi and Results for Development (R4D) Rockefeller foundation

 

5. A Follow-up Impact Assessment Survey of the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty-LEAP

Overview

To design a follow up survey, collect, collate, analyze and produce an impact assessment report on a sample of 5000 household from 7 LEAP districts.

Objective

To collect information on program beneficiaries and comparison households and compare these two groups across a set of indicators thought to be impacted by the program.

Coordinators & clients

Robert Osei & Ministry of employment and social welfare (Ghana)

 

6. Impact Evaluation Survey of the Labour Intensive Public Works (component of GSOP)

Overview

This is a social protection project expected to contribute to bridging the gap between disparate regional growths and also contribute to overall economic growth with equity.

Objective

To generate quantitative estimates of the key impacts of LIPW through data collected in a panel survey of communities and households within LIPW districts.

Coordinators & clients

Clement Ahiadeke, Geroge Owusu, Isaac Osei-Akoto, Simon Bawakyillen, Frank Otchere &  GSOP, Ministry of local government rural development (Ghana)

 

7. Informal Economy Monitory  Study: ‘State of the Urban Informal Economy’

Overview

This study will provide an in-depth assessment of the state of the urban informal work force and how it is affected by economic trends, urban and climate change

Objective

To build the policy-advocacy capacity within membership-based organisations to monitor, on an annual basis, the state of the working poor in 3 sectors of the urban informal economy

 

8. Green Economy Scoping Study

Overview

This project is a broad assessment of opportunities and challenges to promote a green economy at the macro-economic level

Objective

To support and complement national initiatives on green economy, through macro-economic assessments and policy analysis

Coordinators & clients

Bawakyillenuo Simon, Felix Asante

 

9. Urban Africa

Overview

The study critically scrutinizes the assumption that migration from rural areas to cities is one of the major development challenges faced by national and local governments in their efforts to stimulate economic growth and curb poverty.

Objectives

To explore the connections between rural transformations, urbanisation and urban growth and analyse how these may contribute to an understanding of the scale, nature and location of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa.

Coordinators & clients

George Owusu, Funded by EU Commission and led by the Department of Geology and Geography.

 

10. Development of the Export Pineapple Industry in Ghana

Overview

The project seeks to examine the changes on the small holders in the export pineapple industry in Ghana.

Objective

To analyze who among the smallholders were able to survive and continue producing pineapples over the years when various changes occurred in EU markets.

Coordinator

Clement Ahiadeke

11. Reviewing Fertilizer Price Build Up for Possible Intervention by Government

Overview

The Soil Health policy Node (under AGRA), is implementing a project to promote an enabling soil health policy environment in Ghana.  For that reason, ISSER has been charged with the responsibility of reviewing fertilizer price build up for possible intervention by government

Objectives:

1. To review fertilizer build-up between port and farm gate (breadbasket region).
2. To identify areas in the fertilizer value chain that affects the build-up of fertilizer prices
3. To provide evidence for advocating government’s intervention in minimizing price hikes

Coordinators & clients

Felix Asante, Martha A. Awo, Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), Ministry of Food and Agriculture & CSIR-SRI

 

12.AFRINT(lll) Poverty Impacts of Straddling: Rural Income Diversification in Sub-Saharan Africa

Overview

The project will cover both the macro and micro level

Objectives:

1. To study changes in development trends within the agricultural sector
2.  To make up for the attrition and incomplete sampling in the AFRINT 1 and 11 phase

Coordinators & clients

Daniel Sarpong & Fred Dzanku