The primary aim of the EFUDTRIPI project is to bolster policies that facilitate farmers’ access to and utilization of high-quality and reliable digital solutions.

The project aims to be a means to convene key actors and shift the conversation on STI in Africa, with national governments and SGCs at the heart of the narrative.

The overall objective of WIDER UPTAKE is to co-develop a roadmap for the widespread implementation of water-smart symbiotic solutions for wastewater reuse and resource recovery, based on the principles of circular economy.

Strengthen the capacities of project partners on policy and programme evaluation for continuous policy learning to inform innovation policy and support for SME development.

The proposed multidisciplinary project aims to establish a shared understanding of problems and opportunities and to develop solutions to shape food environments in transitioning economies to drive nutritious food consumption for better health outcomes, targeting South-East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

The study seeks to identify how household nutrition outcomes are impacted by the time spent in various activities by women farmers in Techiman as well as women food and nonfood traders on market days and non-market days in Accra and Techiman.

The overall objective is to facilitate a workshop that helps build a strong community of practice amongst IDRC-supported projects examining gender inequities in Southern science systems.

MATS aims to identify key leverage points that foster the positive and reduce the negative impacts of agricultural trade on environmental sustainability and human well-being. Focus is on improving the governance, design and implementation of trade policy at national, EU, African and global levels. Particular attention is paid to SDG1 ‘No Poverty’, SDG2 ‘Zero Hunger’ and SDG3 ‘Good Health and Well-being’, as well as SDG6 ‘Clean Water’, SDG13 ‘Climate Action’ and SDG15 ‘Life on Land’.

MATS will develop and pilot new tools for a systemic analysis, and assessment, of the interactions between agricultural trade, investments, sustainability, and development.

The aim is to scale up to draw up business case models to drive its replication in other communities in Ghana. For CSIR-STEPRI, a key pending task in addition to community engagement activities (completed) is to develop a comprehensive policy guideline that will serve as a blueprint for various ministries and agencies for waste-to-energy project initiatives in Ghana.

Within UNESCO’s global framework for monitoring, policy support and advocacy for the UNESCO Recommendation on Science and Scientific Researchers (RS|SR), the project “Strengthening STI systems for Sustainable Development in Africa” aims to ensure that governments and national science institutions in six African pilot countries (Congo, Ghana, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Zimbabwe) are taking measures to strengthen their national and regional STI policies, governance of STI, and institutions in research and innovation in accordance with the RS|SR. Under this Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) funded project, UNESCO is assisting the Government of Ghana, notably through the Science and Technology Policy Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-STEPRI) to undertake and implement activities related to the SIDA project.

To contribute to bridging the gender gap in engineering in Ghana and Bénin through original research and policy recommendations.

The Africa RISING project is a key pathway towards better food security, improved livelihoods, and a healthy environment. Various technologies have been developed and validated by Africa RISING and STEPRI has been part of this effort. STEPRI has been involved in the implementation of activities that contribute mainly to Outcomes 3 and 4. So far, work has been done to analyze farmers’ access to input and output markets, delivery pathways for SI technologies and the role of government extension services, review of agricultural mechanization policy ordinances in Ghana, and simulation analysis on SI technology adoption. This project was a wrap-up effort to ensure that work that was started in 2019 and represented in the form of Policy Briefs using the available past reports from STEPRI which will go a long way to address policy-related needs to enforce the work.

The Modernisation of Agriculture in Ghana (MAG) Project gives budgetary support and technical assistance in response to the objectives of Food and Agriculture Sector Development Policy (FASDEP), The Medium-Term Agricultural Sector Investment Plan (METASIP) and Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda GSGDA) addressing productivity and value chain management issues for increased farmer incomes and enhanced rural livelihoods. One of the interventions by the Government of Ghana to bridge the gender gap in agriculture is to improve adoption of technologies under the Modernization of Agriculture in Ghana (MAG) project. MAG focuses on demand driven research and alternative methods of extension delivery that facilitate the dissemination of technologies to farm households, Farmer Based Organisations (FBOs), out-growers of nucleus farms, among others. Under the component 3 of the project, which seeks to support agricultural research in order to strengthen agricultural extension services and improve agricultural productivity, production needs and demands of smallholder farmers are identified for tailor-made technologies and innovation development and transfer.

LEAP4FNSSA is a Coordination and Support Action (CSA) that aims at establishing a Europe-Africa International Research Consortium (IRC). The IRC will provide a tool for all European and African institutions ready to engage in a sustainable partnership platform for research and innovation on Food and Nutrition Security as well as Sustainable Agriculture (FNSSA)

Due to the detrimental effects of aflatoxins on food and nutrition security, health, and the economy, the African Union Commission has prioritised aflatoxins as a major food safety problem and has therefore established the Partnership for Aflatoxin Control (PACA) to help address the problem on the continent. With the help of PACA, ECOWAS developed its action plan for aflatoxin control, which was adopted by Ministers of Agriculture in 2015. ECOWAS Member states are accordingly required to adapt this action plan to their specific contexts and ensure its mainstreaming into existing policies and programmes. It is in this vein that a grant was sought from AGRA to develop a national policy that will spell out an action plan together with a technical regulation to ensure adequate enforcement of aflatoxins standards