The government of Ghana through its renewable energy policy has decided to build a hydropower plant in the Bui gorge. The gorge is located in a 1,821km2 Wildlife Park (commissioned in 1971) that covers several catchments of the Black Volta sub-basin of the Volta River. The latter presents a unique and challenging situation for sustainable water resource exploitation.
The aim of the project is to access the impact of the planned hydroelectric dam (HED) and propose a collaborative framework for a multistakeholder problem solving approach where numerical tools and expert knowledge are used to propose adaptive management strategies.