Publications

CEESD, with its partners, Arizona State University (ASU), has won a $100,000 grant in the Power Africa Off-Grid Challenge. Together with its partner, CEESD will implement an innovative and scalable Solar Lease project at Faaso Battor, one of the off-grid community in the Kwahu Afram Plains North District of the Eastern Region of Ghana. The […]

The Ghana Strategic Partnership for Evidence Based Advocacy is a five-year project funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DGIS) and coordinated by Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV). The project christened “Voice 4 Change (V4C) Partnership” is aimed at empowering Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to advocate for a conducive enabling environment in Water, Sanitation and […]

Centre for Energy, Environment, and Sustainable Development (CEESD) has partnered the Kumasi Institute of Tropical Agriculture (KITA) to provide electricity to an off-grid community in the Ashanti region of Ghana. The project which is funded by the United State Africa Development Foundation (USADF), produces electricity from palm kernel shells using biomass gasification. Currently, the system […]

The District Chief Executive of Kwahu Afram Plains North, Hon. Samuel Kena, has commended Centre for Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (CEESD) for the tremendous work done in the district in advocating for the extension of electricity to various off-grid communities in the district. He noted that while CEESD is lobbying various stakeholders at the […]

The Executive Director of the Centre for Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (CEESD), Dr. Julius C. Ahiekpor, has advised the government to involve the private sector in the provision of mini-grid to communities which lack electricity. With the government indicating that it entirely wants to take over the mini-grid space, he said, the government alone […]

At 84% access to electricity, Ghana is second only to South Africa in sub-Saharan Africa. Nonetheless, about 50% of rural households are not electrified. Majority of these rural areas are islands and lakeside communities along the Volta Lake, where it is not economically feasible to extend the national grid mainly due to lack of infrastructure […]

The upcoming budget for the Chicago Public Schools will rely on $500 million in yet-to-be-enacted pension savings by Illinois, school officials said on Monday.

The upcoming budget for the Chicago Public Schools will rely on $500 million in yet-to-be-enacted pension savings by Illinois, school officials said on Monday.