It gives me great pleasure as the Network Coordinator of the West Africa Sustainable Engineering Network for Development (WASEND) to welcome you to the Network’s official website. This website has been developed in the hope that it will become a valuable source of information for stakeholders linked by a common desire to see the strengthening of postgraduate engineering education in the Africa sub-region.

The website will provide visitors with the current news and reports under the WASEND which is made up of the 

• College of Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana
• International Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering (2iE), Burkina Faso
• University of Science Engineering, and Technology (USET), Gambia
• College of Engineering, University of Abomey Calavi, Benin

The focal areas of the network are energy and digital development. The principal focal area for the network is energy access.

The network is characterized by a number of activities inclusive of symposia, seminars, capacity building workshops, impact projects and academic exchange programmes in which you, our cherished readers will be brought to speed on.

We welcome contributions and suggestions from stakeholders and readers to help improve the website. Please send contributions and suggestions to wasend@knust.edu.gh.

Welcome once again!

Prof. Jerry John Kponyo

Network Coordinator