Centre for Migration Studies receives IDRC grant to strengthen knowledge gap in forced displacement
Accra, October 2, GNA - The Centre for Migration Studies(CMS), University of Ghana, Legon has launched IDRC project to Strengthen Knowledge,Evidence Use and Leadership in the Global South on Forced Displacement with a focus on Anglophone West African countries.
The Project is funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and forms part of a five-year IDRC initiative on forced displacement through support to research in selected universities.
The University of Ghana's Centre for Migration Studies under the College of Humanities is one of the 12 Universities across three continents to lead research on forced displacement under the IDRC grant.
IDRC since 2021,has invested 7.5 million Canadian dollars on forced displacement. The project will be conducted in Ghana, the Gambia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.
It seeks to adopt gender transformative and interdisciplinary approaches with robust methodologies and techniques that sustain and contribute towards vigorous gender analysis as well as transformative attitudes which support gender equality in the management of forced displacement issues.