April 11, 2018
In the past few years, through research, workshops and engagement with a diverse set of stakeholders, the Ghana team of the Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR) program identified priority areas requiring concerted efforts to improve food security in the…
March 02, 2018
The Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR) project invites you to attend a webinar on Challenging assumptions about gender and climate adaptation – “It’s not always what, or who, you think”. The webinar will take place on March 14, 2018, 12:00pm…
December 01, 2017
On November 15 and 16, 2017 Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR) West Africa team members from Mali and Ghana participated in a workshop at the Institute for Environment and Sanitation Studies at the University of Ghana in Accra…
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November 17, 2017
The key to a great dinner party is having both the right mix of people and the right seating arrangement at the table. If you pull this off, and add in an engaged host, you will enjoy a stimulating evening…
October 02, 2017
The Water Security and Climate Change (WSCC) conference was held during September 18-21 in Cologne, Germany. Dr Elaine T. Lawson of the Ghana team of the Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR) program presented a poster on water scarcity as a barrier…
June 08, 2017
On June 7 Edmond Totin of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and the Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR) Mali team presented on “Using Transformative Scenario Planning (TSP) process to stimulate social changes and enable…
April 11, 2017
As part of the Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR) program, in January 2017 Mary Thompson-Hall attended a workshop on Experiential Learning aimed at training participants in conveying complex climate-related information to diverse audiences using participatory games. Interactive games can…
January 13, 2017
The second round of Transformative Scenario Planning (TSP) workshops were held near the end of 2016 in Ghana and Mali as part of the Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR) project. These workshops built on a set of scenarios…