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21 October 2025

GRÓ GEST alumnus selected for Global Youth Summit 2025

Godsway Cofie Obro-Boateng will represent Ghana among 50 changemakers in Cape Town, advancing gender equality and youth empowerment.
Far left: Rukaya Issah, GRÓ GEST alumna of 2024. GRÓ is well represented here, as standing far right is GRÓ FTP alumna of 2011 Yaa Tiwaah Amoah, a Deputy Director and Gender Focal Point for the Fisheries Commission. Others pictured are Senior Fisheries Manager Samuel Owusu Donkor, Principal Technical Officer Jonas Amanor, Artisan Grade II Ayim Ambrose, and Assistant Fisheries Managers Adu Patrick at Suaman, Calvin Selassie Seaneye, Grace Nikoi Olai, Abigail Acquah, Richard Selorm Ansong, Henry Agyemang, and Dennis Adofo Boateng.
15 October 2025

Strengthening Gender Equality in Ghana’s Fisheries Sector

GRÓ GEST alumna Rukaya Issah and the Fisheries Commission’s Gender Team advance gender-responsive governance and capacity-building across the industry.
13 October 2025

Stella Tereka Calls for Gender-Sensitive Energy Transitions

GRÓ GEST PhD candidate presents groundbreaking research at NorDev2025
10 October 2025

Uzury and GRÓ GEST Blended Learning Course in Kenya

Grassroots feminist leaders in Meru completed course on feminist leadership
5 August 2025

New Call Launched

Alumni-Led Hybrid Gender Equality Trainings
GRÓ GEST fellows at a field trip by Vatnajökull Glacier. The trip was a part of the module on gender, environment and climate change.
30 July 2025

GRÓ Annual Report 2024 published

The year 2024 was an active and productive one for GRÓ – Centre for Capacity Development, Sustainability and Societal Change – and the four training programmes focusing on fisheries, gender equality, geothermal energy and land restoration. A total of 97 specialists graduated from the five to six-month training in 2024, bringing the total number of GRÓ alumni to 1,767. Seven GRÓ scholarship recipients graduated, two with a PhD and 5 with a Master’s degree. In addition, several short courses were held in the partner countries, and a new online course was launched.