SCHOLARSHIPS : WASCAL
The West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use, WASCAL is a large-scale research-focused and capacity building Climate Service Centre designed to help tackle the climate change challenge by enhancing the resilience of human and environmental systems to climate change and increased variability. This is made possible through the strengthening of the research infrastructure and capacity in West Africa related to climate change and by pooling the expertise of eleven West African countries;
WASCAL is majorly funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF),
It is a leading academic and trans-disciplinary organization building graduate-level scientific capacity and serving policy makers in West Africa with science-based advice on climate change adaptation and land use management, WASCAL cooperates with many agencies and universities in Germany and in the region, to provide a knowledge platform of excellence for its partners.
The German Government, under the leadership of BMBF, took the initiative to create WASCAL and to give it a running start by linking it with the German climate competence. The vision is that in a decade, the ECOWAS community will possess a vibrant Climate Service Centre with highly competent partners in the member countries that jointly can address the complex questions raised by climate change.
Mission
To provide information and knowledge at the local, national, and regional levels to its West African member countries to cope with the adverse impacts of climate change and devise integrated mid and long-term options to build up resilient and productive socio-ecological landscapes. We do this through capacity building and environmental services in West Africa.