KNUST Hosts RWESCK

In order to build high quality human resource capacity in Ghana and the West African sub-region to address the developmental challenges highlighted in the Africa Water Vision 2025 and Sustainable Development Goals, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has launched the Regional Centre of Excellence for Water and Environmental Sanitation Centre, Kumasi (RWESCK). The centre is being hosted by the Department of Civil Engineering.

The establishment of the centre was made possible by a Government of Ghana loan facility from the World Bank under the African Centres of Excellence (ACE) programme. As part of the launch, there was a two-day stakeholders’ consultative workshop on research and training on 15th and16th March 2016.