WASCAL IS HIRING: DATA SCIENCE AND AI RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Location:          WASCAL Competence Centre in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Duration of contract:            2-year fixed term renewable contract WASCAL seeks to hire a Data Science and AI Research Assistant.  This is a local position and shall be based at the WASCAL Competence Centre in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. WASCAL is a research and education-focused institute designed to Continue Reading

WASCAL IS HIRING: RESEARCH ASSISTANT – DATA SCIENCE AND AI

Location:        WASCAL Competence Centre in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Duration of contract:            2-year fixed term renewable contract WASCAL seeks to hire a Research Assistant – Data Science and AI. This is a local position and shall be based at the WASCAL Competence Centre in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. WASCAL is a research and education-focused institute designed to Continue Reading

WASCAL IS HIRING: GIS TECHNICIAN

Location:      WASCAL Competence Centre in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Duration of contract:        3-years fixed term renewable contract WASCAL seeks to hire a GIS Technician. This is a local position and shall be based at the WASCAL Competence Centre in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. WASCAL is a research and education-focused institute designed to provide knowledge and climate Continue Reading

EXPERTS CALL ON THE GOVERNMENT TO EXAMINE CLIMATE CHANGE AS A CAUSE OF RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION

ACCRA.  Experts of the Rural-Urban Migration and Cross Border Migration in West Africa (MIGRAWARE), a research initiative under the West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL), in partnership with the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany (BMBF), and other German and West African partners have called on West Continue Reading

ENHANCING DISASTER RISK REDUCTION IN AFRICA: UNDRR AND NETWORK OF CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE TRAIN EXPERTS IN EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS

ACCRA, Ghana: In response to Africa’s vulnerability to the threats and risks of disaster, which undermines the development and safety of the continent, the United Nation’s Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), in partnership with its Network of Centres of Excellence is building capacities of Africans to enable them to tackle the issue through the Continue Reading

WASCAL IS HIRING: IT OFFICER

Location:                             WASCAL Headquarters, Accra, Ghana Duration of contract:        Two-year contract with possibility of renewal WASCAL is a leading academic and trans-disciplinary research organization serving policymakers in West Africa with science-based advice on adaptation to climate change of land use and management. It cooperates with many agencies and universities in the region, providing Continue Reading

INVITATION TO TENDER

DEADLINE:              30-06-2023 The West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use, WASCAL intends to tender for the supply of laptops. WASCAL office Accra, now invites tenderers to submit, free of charge without the obligation on the part of WASCAL, a tender based on the following specification and conditions. Tenders should be Continue Reading

INDEPENDENT GLOBAL STOCKTAKE (IGST) WEST AFRICA REGIONAL HUB LAUNCHED

The Independent Global Stocktake (IGST), West Africa has been launched in Ouagadougou.  After a successful organization of six (6) national workshops across West Africa,  to co-design the roadmap of the operationalization of the West African regional hub in the last three months, members of the iGST West Africa Regional Hub  have met in in Ouagadougou Continue Reading

WASCAL DONATES 5 WATER LEVEL SENSORS TO WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Accra, Ghana WASCAL has donated four (4) automatic water level sensors and one (1) water quality sensor to the Water Research Institute in Accra. This contribution aims to address the challenges of hydrological data availability and collection in the West African region and facilitate research, capacity building, and service development in the face of Climate Continue Reading

THE INDEPENDENT GLOBAL STOCKTAKE WEST AFRICA  REGIONAL HUB PROJECT SET TO BE OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED

Press Release The West African civil society can contribute to the Global Stocktake (GST) process of the Paris Agreement as non-Party stakeholder through the Independent Global Stocktake. Indeed, as part of global efforts to ensure adequate civil society contribution to the GST, the iGST works through a consortium of regional civil society hubs and four thematic working groups on Continue Reading