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UDS Students Get GH¢40,000 From YEFL Ghana for Community Climate Projects
YEFL Ghana and UDS have given 10 students GH¢4,000 each to run climate adaptation projects in Northern Region communities.
Ten students of the University for Development Studies (UDS) have each received GH¢4,000 to run small climate projects in communities across the Northern Region, under a partnership between the university and the non-governmental organisation Youth Empowerment for Life (YEFL Ghana).
The GH¢40,000 support, reported by the Ghana News Agency (GNA), was disclosed in Tamale at a forum where the students presented what they had done with the money, the problems they ran into and what should change for future rounds.
Projects on water, sanitation and farming
According to GNA, the students were chosen through a competitive application process. Their projects cover climate adaptation, community sanitation, water conservation and climate-smart farming, all aimed at helping communities cope with hotter seasons, longer dry spells and unreliable rains.
One beneficiary, Baba Nafisah Mpag, set up climate-resilient organic gardens for women at Dalun, and used the forum to press for wider use of organic farming methods among farmers.
The funding comes from the Danida Strategic Partnership (SP2) Project, with support from Oxfam in Ghana. YEFL Ghana’s project lead for SP2, Emmanuel Ndukwe, told the forum that young people should be at the centre of local climate action and that the grants were meant to produce role models other youth could follow. He said the partnership with UDS’s Faculty of Sustainable Development Studies began with the Savannah Climate Conference last year.
Dr Eric Duorinaah, a senior lecturer at UDS and the faculty’s project coordinator, urged the students to act as climate ambassadors in their schools and communities.
Why it matters
Most households in the Northern Region depend on rain-fed farming, which leaves them exposed when the rains come late or end early. YEFL Ghana said the Tamale forum was also meant to gather recommendations to improve future climate action initiatives by young people in the Savannah Ecological Zone.
Source: Ghana News Agency — https://gna.org.gh/2026/11/yefl-ghana-supports-10-uds-students-to-implement-community-climate-action-initiatives/
