Ghana

The National Action Programme to Combat Drought and Desertification is a sectoral national programme of the Republic of Ghana, applicable for the period of 2002-2027. Its main objective is to sustain high agricultural production and ensure food security

This document presents the report identification and justification of disaster risk management (DRM) and climate change adaptation (CCA) measures for Ghana. The scope of this report to identify possible soft to hard adaptation options to reduce, prevent

This National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy intends to:

• Ensure a consistent, comprehensive and a targeted approach to increasing climate resilience and decrease vulnerability of the populace.
• Deepen awareness and sensitisation for the general

This document will also serve as a guide to future national development planning framework to ensure that Ghana has a climate resilient economy to ensure low carbon development. This document is divided into ten (10) programme areas:

1. Develop climate

The present Action Plan on National Climate-Smart Agriculture and Food Security (2016-2020) provides the implementation framework for an effective development of climate-smart agriculture. The Plan formulates specific strategies that will contribute

In June 2015, about 53,000 people were affected by unusually severe floods in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana. The real impact of such a disaster is a product of exposure ("Who was affected?"), vulnerability ("How much did the affected

This Communication and Awareness Action Plan (CAAP) intends to be a communicational guidance document for key stakeholders in four specific coastal countries (Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, Togo) who will use it as an aid to communicate the effects of

The West African coastal region is rich in natural land resources. However, increased pressure on these resources from the rapidly growing coastal population has degraded these reserves. The effects are compounded by the region’s vulnerability to climate