REACH-STR
Project Detail
The project aims to promote more inclusive and sustainable economic growth policies, strategies and programming approaches in the Upper West Region and Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District by 2025. This is to be achieved by supporting district, regional and national policymakers and development planners to better understand social transformation conditions and contribute to a better understanding and application of social transformation analysis in development planning.
- Collaborating institutions/partnership: SD Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (SDD-UBIDS), University Of Ghana – Centre For Migration Studies, International Water Management Institute
- Duration:6 years (January 2020 – December 2025)
- Specific CSIR Thematic area:Climate Change, Environmental Change and Green Economy
- Funding source (donor):European Union via International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Participating scientists (with PI)
Director, Chief Research Scientist
Dr Godfred Frempong
Chief Research Scientist
Research Scientist
Assistant Research Scientist
Assistant Research Scientist
Research Scientist
Specific Objective
The project aims to promote more inclusive and sustainable economic growth policies, strategies and programming approaches in the Upper West Region and Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District by 2025. This is to be achieved by supporting district, regional and national policymakers and development planners to better understand social transformation conditions and contribute to a better understanding and application of social transformation analysis in development planning.
Expected Outcome
The project is expected to promote more inclusive and sustainable economic growth policies, strategies and programming approaches in the Upper West Region through supporting district, regional and national policymakers and development planners to better understand social transformation conditions. It further aims to generate knowledge on the social transformation conditions that promote sustainable and inclusive rural development and adoption of climate change adaptation and mitigation practices as well as contribute to a better understanding and application of social transformation analysis in development planning.
Major Outcomes
REACH-STR Project stimulates innovative thinking in R&D and facilitates the formulation of policy strategies and socio-economic transformation conditions that promote sustainable agricultural development. In focusing on the thematic areas of climate resilience, migration and gender, the REACHSTR project therefore underscores how a better understanding and utilization of social transformation analysis can generate insights that shape policy-making and strategic development planning to meet current and future challenges.
Impact on the Economy
The Project focuses on three main thematic areas of climate resilience, gender and migration from the perspective of social transformation in vulnerable land-use systems.It seeks to support development planners in the use of social transformation analysis for more effective agroecological approaches to farming and the adoption of climate change adaptation and mitigation practices.
Major policy action needed
Support for the uptake of research evidence into decision-making processes, advocacy with relevant institutions and at relevant events and policy engagements from a social transformation perspective.
