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Renewable energy projects in rural Ghana have some built-in limitations

Renewable energy projects in rural Ghana have some built-in limitations

RENEWABLE energy technologies like solar lanterns, solar panels and biogas digesters offer the prospect of affordable power in remote communities. For the last 30 years, international organisations have been involved in projects to make these technologies available to users in African countries. Mainly this has been done free of charge and has included efforts to build local capacity and reform policy. DR. BASIL AMUZU-SEFORDZI, Postgrad Research Fellow at UWA AfREC, The University of Western Australia But despite these efforts, internationally funded renewable energy projects have often failed after they withdrew their support. In the last decade, international organisations have been…
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COVID-19 widens learning gap for girls

COVID-19 widens learning gap for girls

JAMILA AKWELEY OKERTCHIRI Seventeen-year-old Muniratu Adams, a form two student of the Jeyiri D/A Junior High School at Funsi in the Wa East District of the Upper West Region of Ghana, is fortunate to have returned to school this January after the long COVID-19 shutdown. Ghana’s education sector was one of the hardest affected by the pandemic and for many girls, particularly those in rural areas, the consequences of school closures means many will never return to their schooling. “It was difficult for me to come back to school,” she tells IPS. “When I was home, I did not think…
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