The Centre for Coastal Management at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) has begun a weeklong programme to officially present its Africa Centre of Excellence in Coastal Resilience (ACECoR) project and also conduct a mid-term review of its activities.
The World Bank sponsored five-year capacity building project started in January 2019 following a competitive process and its currently in its third year of implementation.
The Centre for Coastal Management (CCM) which was established in December, 2013 in the School of Biological Sciences of the College of Agriculture and Natural Sciences (CANS) of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) responded to the call for application. The Centre for Coastal Management was competitively selected to establish the Africa Centre of Excellence in Coastal Resilience (ACECoR).
ACECoR is, therefore, the new image for CCM which has as its vision: To become a Centre of Excellence in coastal management contributing to global efforts to safeguard healthy coastal ecosystems for sustained provision of goods and services The emergence of ACECoR is thus considered as the international recognition of the activities of CCM
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Speaking at the opening session yesterday, the Director of the Centre for Coastal Management, Professor Dennis Worlanyo Aheto while expressing sincere gratitude to the University of Cape Coast Management as well as relevant stakeholders for constantly supporting the Centre, revealed the major focus of the project and the plan to put up a multipurpose building that will aid in teaching and learning as well as research.
“we are initiating steps to begin ACECoR multi-purpose building which will come in three phases to provide accommodation facilities, offices for staff and lecture rooms” Professor Aheto revealed.
On her part, the Project Manager for Africa Centre of Excellence for Development Impact, Association of African Universities, Dr. Sylvia Mkandawire urged the Centre for Coastal Management to continue to work hard to make the ACECoR project an impact driven one even as they put in structures to be resilient in this Covid-19 times.
“To us, this is an important activity because ACECoR has set up the pace for all the other centres. This is the first centre that is thinking ahead of the midterm review that’s upcoming in November” she praised ACECoR.
As part of the programme, there was an inspection of the building site where the ACECoR multipurpose building will be put up. The Centre looks forward to cut a sod in August for the commencement of the building project.
Source: Rosemond Asmah/ATLFMNEWS
