Research Project SWASH Sustainable Wastewater Systems for Ghana
Project Duration: 10/01/2022 - 09/30/2025
SWASH (Sustainable Wastewater Systems for Ghana) is a DANIDA financed project (Project nr. 21-MO2-RUC). SWASH delivers new research knowledge and capacity strengthening for Ghanaian institutions to achieve water sustainability.
The 3 year project undertakes extensive fieldwork in the rapidly growing coastal city of Tema, east of Ghana’s capital Accra. Water governance comprises a highly complex social and political field of diverse public, private, state, and non-state actors and institutions. These often pursue competing interests and are organized according to different logics and rationales.
SWASH contributes to achieving viable solutions by investigating the role of informality in government’s efforts to achieve sustainable urban water systems and undertaking a holistic and interdisciplinary analysis of different sites and institutions and approaches water system development as an inherently non-linear and political process, as well as necessarily technical, natural, and economic.
Together with original research, SWASH contributes to DANIDA ongoing Strategic Sector Cooperation on urban water by building partnerships and strengthening capacity. The research is undertaken by Roskilde University, University of Ghana, and University of Miami, and the project partners with Tema Metropolitan Assembly, Ghana Water Company Ltd, and the City of Aarhus.
The 3 year project undertakes extensive fieldwork in the rapidly growing coastal city of Tema, east of Ghana’s capital Accra. Water governance comprises a highly complex social and political field of diverse public, private, state, and non-state actors and institutions. These often pursue competing interests and are organized according to different logics and rationales.
SWASH contributes to achieving viable solutions by investigating the role of informality in government’s efforts to achieve sustainable urban water systems and undertaking a holistic and interdisciplinary analysis of different sites and institutions and approaches water system development as an inherently non-linear and political process, as well as necessarily technical, natural, and economic.
Together with original research, SWASH contributes to DANIDA ongoing Strategic Sector Cooperation on urban water by building partnerships and strengthening capacity. The research is undertaken by Roskilde University, University of Ghana, and University of Miami, and the project partners with Tema Metropolitan Assembly, Ghana Water Company Ltd, and the City of Aarhus.
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Contact
Paul Stacey, associate professor, project leader, pas@ruc.dk
Researchers
Paul Stacey, associate professor, Roskilde University
Jacob Rasmussen, associate professor, Roskilde University
Nina Torm, post doc, Roskilde University
Martin Oteng-Ababio, professor, University of Ghana, Legon
Richard Grant, professor, University of Miami, USA
Iris Fynn, lecturer, University of Ghana
Issahaka Fuseini, lecturer, University of Ghana
Publications
What Is a “Development” Research Project? Transforming Ideas of Development through Development Research
Olwig, M. F., Rasmussen, J., Riisgaard, L., Noe, C., Khanduja, G., Taylor, P., Hambati, H., Richey, L. A., Büscher, C. & Minoia, P., 13 Sept 2023, Bonn : The EADI Blog.Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Communication
Activities
The Political Ecology Network conference (POLLEN24)
Jacob Rasmussen (Speaker)
10 Jun 2024 → 12 Jun 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Lecture and oral contribution
DIIS Development Brown Bag Seminar
Jacob Rasmussen (Speaker) & Paul Austin Stacey (Speaker)
6 Nov 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Lecture and oral contribution
Wicked Problems and climate Change
Jacob Rasmussen (Speaker)
8 Aug 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Lecture and oral contribution
Base at Roskilde University
The project based at the Department of Social Sciences and Business
Participating research units: International Development Research Group // Socio-Economic Research Center
PhD-School: Doctoral School of Social Sciences and Business - International studies
Relevant degree programs: Global and Development Studies // International Studies // International Bachelor in Social Sciences
Research from Roskilde University
More Information
Find additional information about the project: SWASH Sustainable Wastewater Systems for Ghana:
Contact
Paul Stacey
Associate professor
Phone +45 4674 3694
pas@ruc.dk