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Gambila urges
researchers to be more innovative
Navrongo(UER), April 29, GNA - Mr Boniface Gambila, Upper
East Regional Minister, at the weekend asked Scientists and
Technologists to come out with more innovative research work
that would address problems hindering the nation's
development.
He said as policy makers, evaluators and implementers
Government required innovative research work that would
guide them in effective policy-making.
"The three northern regions with their numerous problems
needed pragmatic research work to solve them especially the
single rainy season in the area with its attendant long
period of drought coupled with the harsh harmattan," he
added.
Mr Gambila made the call in a speech read on his behalf by
Mr Emmanuel Chegeweh, Kassena-Nankana District Chief
Executive at the launching of the Northern Chapter of
African Technology Policy Studies (ATPS) Network at the
Navrongo Campus of University for Development Studies (UDS).
The ATPS was instituted to improve the quality of technology
in policy making in Sub-Saharan Africa and to strengthen the
region's institutional capacity for the management of
technological development.
Mr Gambila commended the noble ideas of ATPS and appealed to
its members to develop appropriate scientific and
technological research to address issues confronting the
nation, especially the three northern regions.
He pointed out that the situation where research findings
were shelved in the universities and some research
institutions were being addressed because policy makers had
now become more conscious of the value and potential of
research.
"This would help us to solve the intractable problems of our
people. This is more relevant for those of us in the
northern sector of the country where there is abject poverty
even though opportunities abound to tackle some of the
problems," he added.
Dr Isaac Adetude, Vice Dean of Faculty of Applied Sciences
of UDS, noted that even though the faculty had produced many
students since its inception, the university was still
grappling with varied problems including inadequate human
resource.
He said most of the lecturers working in the faculty, had
not had long research experiences therefore, the ATPS
programme would facilitate their exposure to research, cross
fertilisation of ideas, funding of research and building the
capacity of staff to assist the university address its
problems.
GNA
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