IDIN Project

At the end of September 2017, which falls within the period under review, the International Development Innovation Network (IDIN) programme, in which the TCC was involved, came successfully to an end. The TCC-IDIN Project was a US$400,000, 3-year, USAID-funded cooperation agreement with a goal “To create and build a global network to change-makers that enables the design, development, and dissemination of innovations that address key development challenges associated with poverty while building capacity in communities for local innovation and creative problem-solving”.  IDIN itself is a consortium of universities including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, the University of California-Davis, USA, the University of São Paulo, Brazil, the TCC of the KNUST, Ghana, among others. Other significant achievements of the IDIN-TCC project over its 3-year period include the following:

• More than 40 undergraduate and post-graduate students of the College of Engineering, KNUST were supported with IDIN funds to undertake research projects that would improve the lives and livelihoods of people living in poverty.

 

• IDIN-MIT supported the Ghana Engineering Students Association (GESA) and Creativity Group, all of the College of Engineering with over USD 20,000 to organize annual engineering students’ competitions.
• Provision of tools and equipment for the Cookstove Testing and Expertise Laboratory (C-Lab) and the Suame ITTU
• Funded the renovation of the building housing the C-Lab.