The Pro Vice-Chancellor of University of Cape Coast, Prof. Mrs. Rosemond Boohene, has received a Japanese delegation from the Infrastructure Development Institute (IDI) and the World Bank on a courtesy visit to the University.
The group was on a ten-day visit to the country to intervene, through technology, the surge in Ghana’s coastal degradation.
The Japanese delegation, working under the West Africa Coastal Area (WACA) Programme sponsored by the World Bank was collaborating with the Centre for Coastal Management (CCM) – Africa Centre of Excellence for Coastal Resilience (ACECoR) of UCC.
According to the Deputy Director of the Centre for Coastal Management, Dr. Precious A. Matta, the group was working with the Centre to transfer knowledge on best practices to control the extent of the dire havoc erosion along Ghana’s coastline was causing.
He mentioned that the group was scheduled to visit some selected sites along Ghana’s coastal stretch with focus on hotspots where erosion was prominent.
The lead for the Japanese group, Director for the Department of Water Resources and Disaster Prevention Research at IDI in Japan, Hisashi Mitsuhashi, expressed his team’s appreciation for the warmth extended them at UCC.
He said protecting the environment was a pertinent move of global importance hence, the group’s resolve to collaborate with the Centre for Coastal Management to embark on salvaging Ghana’s coastline.
Prof. Mrs. Rosemond Boohene, on her part, was grateful for the group’s visit and reiterated the essence of such interventions they were embarking on.
This move, she said, was necessary to reduce the threat the degradation of the coastline poses to the larger environment.
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Source: Akosua Akyeabea Sackey/Documentation and Information Section-UCC
