In Ghana, many young people, even those with university degrees, continue to struggle finding jobs. It’s reported that only about 10% of Ghanaian graduates secure employment immediately after completing their mandatory national service. Business students at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology now have a dedicated digital resource to support their job search. CARISCA’s …
Seventeen newly minted doctors of philosophy in business and management (13 of whom are pictured) celebrated their graduation from KNUST in March thanks to the support of CARISCA scholarships. The group is among the first cohort of students who received funding from CARISCA starting in 2021 to pursue doctoral studies in logistics and supply chain …
On Feb. 8-9, CARISCA convened a “think tank” of leading young scholars from across Africa to accelerate research on supply networks. The 21 academics from seven nations formed groups to address six critical research topics for future publication.
The government of Ghana has a vision to provide universal health coverage for its citizens by the year 2030. That means ensuring all people in Ghana have timely access to high quality health services regardless of their ability to pay. Ghana’s health supply chains are a critical factor in whether the country will be able …
It’s been reported that only about half of post-secondary school graduates in Africa land a job each year. In Ghana, only 10% of graduates find work immediately after completing their required year of national service. The others can take up to a decade to find permanent employment. Supply chain management and other business students at …
As an emerging economy, Ghana faces myriad challenges. For example, as much as 35% of its agricultural products are lost along the supply chain before reaching consumers. Unemployment is high. Only 10% of the solid waste generated daily in the country is collected and properly disposed of. These are just three of the difficult national …
CARISCA achieved “a huge victory” this spring, in the words of executive director Dale Rogers, with a publication in one of the world’s leading supply chain journals. The Journal of Business Logistics published a paper by a CARISCA research team online May 1. It will be in the June print edition. The article, “In search …
The rate of growth in logistics activities slowed down slightly in the third quarter of 2022, according to the Ghana Logistics Managers Index. A prime reason for this slowdown was the high cost of inventory and the associated cost of warehousing and transportation prices. The Logistics Managers Index is a tool created by CARISCA to …
CARISCA hosts second affinity group: transport and logistics experts gather in Nigeria to discuss improvements for urban transport systems.
The Center for Applied Research and Innovation in Supply Chain – Africa (CARISCA) hosted its second annual Supply Chain Research Summit June 28-30, 2022. The three-day event featured three keynotes, more than 50 paper presentations, four invited sessions and a dissertation award session. Researchers and practitioners presented papers during three parallel tracks: general supply chains, …
