Ghana

Region: Ghana

Ghana:

Projects
13
Resources
13
Stories
22
Resource
1st September 2022
Climate risk information for financial sector decision-makers in Africa: gaps and opportunities This working paper discusses the role of financial sector policy in relation to addressing gaps in climate risk information in the private finance sector, with a specific focus on Africa.
Resource
18th October 2021
Training handbook for climate-adaptive, resilient livelihoods in the Volta delta, Ghana The Regional Institute for Population Studies, University of Ghana, has produced a handbook for strengthening the resilience of women and other groups who face local climate change impacts and related economic challenges in Ghana’s Volta delta region.
Completed
Project
Completed
Supporting climate resilience in Ghana

CDKN has been working with the University of Ghana since 2019 to inform the implementation and mainstreaming of the National Climate Change Policy in Ghana.

Resource
16th July 2021
Film: empowering women to adapt to climate change in the Volta delta, Ghana Climate change is adversely affecting the livelihoods of women in the Volta delta, Ghana. This film explores the issues they face and the adaptation solutions that are helping to build their resilience.
Feature
21st December 2020
Keta, Ghana: Agribusiness offers women and youth greater food security during pandemic In Keta, a rural community of Ghana, a semi-pro basketball player is promoting agribusiness among women and youth to enhance food security during the  pandemic. Misper Apawu reports. This is the twenty-eighth in the series of stories from Voices from the Frontline initiative by ICCCAD and CDKN.
Feature
27th November 2020
Building smallholder farmers’ resilience to climate change for food security in a future climate in Ghana Prof. Philip Antwi-Agyei, Associate Professor in Environmental Science at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, gives a first-hand account of how climate change is undermining food security in northern Ghana – and what to do about it.
Feature
29th October 2020
Wellbeing for rural people in a changing climate - Experience from Ghana’s semi-arid areas Rahina Sidiki Alare has worked with women's groups in communities of Ghana's semi-arid districts to spread timely and accurate climate information and support them to adopt climate-smart agriculture and develop business activities. She reports on challenges and achievements.
Resource
12th October 2020
Ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction: District-level collaboration for flood mitigation in Accra, Ghana This policy brief looks closely at ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction explores collaborative solutions to flooding in Accra and looks at the advantages of utilising collaborative approaches in disaster risk management approaches.
Completed
Project
Completed
Empowering women and transforming gender relations in the Volta delta, Ghana

This project focuses on raising awareness around the need to increase women’s access to land through changes in inheritance rights as well as to create opportunities for adaptive livelihoods within the Sogakope and Keta communities in Ghana.

Feature
9th May 2019
Human threat to nature can be reversed In response to the newly released Global Assessment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), CDKN's Shehnaaz Moosa and Mairi Dupar call for decision-makers the world over to seize the momentum provided by IPBES' startling science.
Feature
27th February 2019
Ghana climate research reaches deep into farming communities The changing climate in northwest Ghana puts farming livelihoods and food security at risk. Now a project with multiple strands -- from youth engagement, to mobile phone apps, to community outreach centres -- is empowering farmers with the knowledge they need to innovate and adapt. Prince Ansah and Lucia Scodanibbio report.
News
28th December 2018
Clean, reliable power for Africa: The potential for mini-grids This short film highlights the potential of mini-grids to address the energy challenges in rural Africa, while tackling the global challenge of climate change.