KNUST’s new clean-air centre seeks regional partnerships as Africa faces funding squeeze

The newly established West Africa Centre for Clean Air (WACCA) is looking to build stronger regional partnerships and mobilise long-term support for air-quality management as funding for clean-air action continues to decline globally.“In KNUST, air quality is going to get better, because we've just established the West Africa Centre for Clean Air, and that changes everything.”The Clean Air Fund's State of Global Air Quality Funding 2025 found that international development funding for outdoor air-quality action fell 20%, from US$4.