This is a six-year interdisciplinary research project – funded through the “Swiss Programme for Research on Global Issues for Development” (r4d programme) by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) – that draws on the disciplines of economics, law and political science, to analyse how commodity-trade related Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) from resource-rich countries can be significantly reduced in order to finance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) is a five-year, Research Programme Consortium funded by UK aid from the UK Government through the Department for International Development (DFID) and will run from 2016 -2022. This project aims at analysing the impacts and outcomes of pathways to agricultural commercialization on rural poverty, empowerment of women and girls and food and nutrition security in Ghana and six other Sub-Saharan Africa countries.

The Open Government Partnership (OGP) is a global partnership that brings together government reformers and civil society leaders to create action plans that make governments more inclusive, responsive, and accountable. The Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA) joined OGP in 2016. This project is designed to report on progress by STMA towards meeting its commitments as stated in their Local Action Plan for 2018-2020.

To address some of the challenges facing the agricultural sector in Northern Ghana, USAID/Ghana awarded a Cooperative Agreement No. AID-641-A-14-0001 2014 to a consortium led by ACDI/VOCA to implement its Agricultural Development and Value Chain Enhancement II (ADVANCE II) Activity, as a follow-on to the successful initial ADVANCE activity which ended in March 2014.