By Benjamin Abugri – FARA & Kisito Gandji – WASCAL
Tamale, Ghana | 7 July 2026 — Policymakers, researchers, practitioners, civil society actors, agricultural extension officers, farmers, and members of the Ghana Participatory Learning Platform are meeting today at the University for Development Studies Guest House Conference Room in Tamale for the DecLaRe final dissemination workshop.
The workshop forms part of the validation, dissemination and exit activities of the regional projects funded under the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space initiative on “Sustainable Land Management in Sub-Saharan Africa.” The initiative brings together the DecLaRe, COINS and INTERFACES projects, which have supported multi-stakeholder dialogue, joint learning and evidence generation for sustainable land management in Northern Ghana and the Savannah Region.
DecLaRe, which stands for Decision Support for strengthening Land Resilience in the face of global challenges, focuses on generating evidence and decision-support recommendations to strengthen land resilience and promote scalable innovations in crop production and animal husbandry in northern Ghana and northern Benin. The project is implemented by a consortium of African and German institutions, including the University of Kassel, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, University of Hohenheim, University of Göttingen, University of Parakou, University for Development Studies and WASCAL.
The Tamale workshop provides a platform for partners and stakeholders to review key research outputs, validate policy briefs and knowledge products, and discuss how research findings can inform policy, practice and local decision-making. The programme includes presentations on DecLaRe achievements, dissemination and validation of policy briefs, discussions on household survey insights, and presentation of the synthesis report of the FONA-funded projects.
A key feature of the workshop is its participatory approach, which allows stakeholders to provide feedback on the relevance, applicability and implementation potential of the project’s research outputs. Through plenary discussions, question-and-answer sessions and participatory validation processes, participants are expected to help refine the knowledge products and strengthen their usefulness for sustainable land management interventions.
The workshop is expected to contribute to improved uptake of research findings by decision-makers, practitioners and local actors, while strengthening collaboration among institutions working to build more resilient land-use systems in Ghana.
The DecLaRe dissemination workshop is the first in a series of related closing and validation workshops taking place in Tamale in July 2026, followed by the COINS workshop and the INTERFACES workshop.
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