Two international research methodology workshop and
networking sessions between WASCAL and Pan African University Institute
of Water and Energy Studies from Algeria (PAUWES) are concurrently
ongoing at the University Abomey-Calavi, Benin and University Abdou
Moumouni de Niamey, Niger.
Forty (40) students have been drawn
from eighteen (18) countries in West Africa, East Africa and North
Africa to participate in the workshops which run from 27th February,
till Sunday 12th of March, 2017. With focus on Climate Change and Energy
in Niger, and Climate Change and Water Resources in Benin, the workshop
is focused on enriching and extending the current curricula of WASCAL
and Pan African University institute of Water and Energy Studies from
Algeria on Climate Change related issues and providing a platform for
students from WASCAL and PAUWES to interact and network on scientific
issues.
In her opening remarks, Director of WASCAL’s Capacity
Building Department, Professor Janet Adelegan was confident that by the
end of the two sessions, both universities would have built strong ties,
networked, and created lots of synergies in their quests to serve as
the solution providers Africa has been looking for to tackle its
numerous climate change problems in the areas of energy and water
resources.
The workshop, will also increase the visibility of
WASCAL as a climate change research and capacity building centre of
excellence in West Africa, while building partnerships with new
stakeholders.
At the end of the workshop, ten students will
ultimately be selected to have a two-month intensive internship at
WASACL’s Competence Centre in Burkina Faso, under the sponsorship of the
Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany (BMBF).
This
is a collaborative programme between the Pan African University in
Tlemcen, Algeria and WASCAL’s Masters Research Programme (MRP) Climate
Change and Energy in Niamey, Niger and Graduate Research Programme
(GRP), Climate Change and Water Resources in Abomey Calavi, Republic of
Benin, with Lecturers drawn from across Western and Southern Africa.
