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COUNCIL FOR SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE

COUNCIL FOR SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE. Advancing Leadership and Management style for the Growth and Success of the Water Research Institute. What is the Vision?.

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COUNCIL FOR SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE

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  1. COUNCIL FOR SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCHWATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE Advancing Leadership and Management style for the Growth and Success of the Water Research Institute

  2. What is the Vision? • To become centre of excellence in the provision of scientific research in water and related resources for sustainable economic growth of Ghana.

  3. What is our Mandate? • To undertake research into all aspects of water resources of Ghana • in order to provide scientific and technical information and services • needed for the sustainable development, utilization and management of these resources for socio-economic advancement of the country.

  4. Our Values • A disciplined Institute with work ethics based on quality conscious and customer satisfaction

  5. Challenges with getting drinking water – carrying containers in Accra?

  6. Are they actually fetching drinking water?

  7. Solving drinking water problem

  8. Here are some of the ladies who sell the water to us – are we safe?

  9. Transporting the sachet water in a car boot - check where the spare car-tyre is

  10. Occasionally they fall and are collected for sale

  11. Where are they bringing the water from?

  12. Small-scale miners busy at work

  13. Is this water good for life

  14. Flooding in Accra? Coming Soon!

  15. Using wastewater for vegetable gardening

  16. Where do the buyers take these vegetables?

  17. Our Strengths • Highly trained staff • Good will of most public and private sectors. • Attract funds from local and international bodies. • Salaries of staff guaranteed. • Monopoly with some analytical methods • Some state of the art equipment & methodology.

  18. Some Weaknesses • Poor use of communication. • Low morale of staff. • High attrition rate. • Poor funding of research • Attitude of most staff to commercialization. • Some equipment obsolete. • Some poor facilities and infrastructure.

  19. We have Opportunities • Commercialization of research. • Private sector ready to do business with us. • Generation of igf through sale of products and services. • Knowledge of local communities and their unique problems. • Ability to develop local technology.

  20. But there are Threats • Poor recognition of science and technology. • High competition from the private sector. • Organizations with more modern equipment. • Uncontrolled importation of foreign technology. Free market. • Poor Pricing of products & services.

  21. Action Plan / Milestones 2011 – 2015 • Provide services responsive to demands of the public and private sectors, • Improve the following areas: • visibility and public image, • programme delivery, • facilities / equipment, staffing ,and, • environment that support R & D.

  22. Action Plan / Milestones 2011 – 2015 (cont’d) • quality assurance measures, • approaches to fund sourcing, • demand-driven research that enhance the quality of life of the people, • avenues for publications, • integrity of financial management.

  23. Consultations and Dialogue with Constituents and Stakeholders • √ Planned, deliberate and purposive communication to mobilize support for policies, create acceptance, develop a common expectation among staff, for fruitful exchange of ideas and perspectives, to create and maintain opinion about subjects • Review existing organizational structure and procedures of decision-making.

  24. Visit Constituents and Stakeholders • Visit the field/out stations – Akosombo and Tamale to assess and review staffing levels, infrastructure, and their long-term viability. • Assess the monitoring and supervision systems, and, the reporting mechanisms between Accra Office and the Stations. • Visit the Ministries/Sectors of interest, and organizations dealing with water resources.

  25. Improve Visibility and Public Image • Provide visibility and a unique identity for marketing our research programmes. • Improve the institute’s relations with the media outlets reaching Ghanaians all over the world via the internet. • Sharing under-utilized facilities in the Accra Office and the two out stations.

  26. Improve Facilities for Delivery Programmes • Provide a welcoming research and development environment for staff, visitors and clients. • Motivate and provide in-service training and professional development activities for staff • Enhance performance in project proposals, • Promote customer care.

  27. Improve Human Resource for Delivery Programmes • Recruit and maintain well-qualified research scientists. • Modernize research methodologies to enhance effective preparation, delivery and presentation. • Develop and facilitate team research, peer review of research proposals and write-ups. • Build mentorship for the promotion of high standards.

  28. Strengthen Prudent and Integrity of Financial Management • Strengthen the Accra Office’s involvement in the planning and management of activities of the out stations. • Require all out stations/projects to submit monthly/regular financial activity reports. • Efficient use of resource in project development; using limited resources to produce maximum results.

  29. Develop Strategies to Expand Resource Base • Identify possible sources of funding for focused projects and develop grant proposals. • Continue to mobilize resources from development partners (DANIDA, UNESCO, World Bank, World Association of Industrial and Technological Research Organizations (WAITRO)/ Science & Technology-Europe Africa Project (ST-EAP), European Union Initiative for Neglected Tropical Diseases (EFINTDs), Royal Society and Leverhuin Trust Grant).

  30. Educational Collaborations • Strengthen educational collaboration with • John Hopkins University (Bloomberg School of Public Health); • John Hopkins University (The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies); • Emory, Rollins School of Public Health (Hubert Department of Global Health); • San Diego State University (Department of Geography) • possibility of awarding certificates to students and staff.

  31. Increase our igf • Increase the current total internally generated funds of the Institute by 30% through improvement in resourcing and monitoring.

  32. IGF – income and expenditure for 4 years.

  33. Review and Evaluation • Evaluate the effectiveness, progress, and status of all activities outlined above each year; • recognizing strengths and achievement, • and to identify needed improvements • against the backdrop of ongoing and emerging directions in research into water and its related resources at the national and international levels.

  34. Rainwater harvesting

  35. More cultured fish on our tables

  36. Putting a smile on their faces

  37. That is our Agenda

  38. THANK YOU No More

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