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Assessment of climate change policy and institutional context: The case of Ghana

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Title Assessment of climate change policy and institutional context: The case of Ghana
 
Creator Owuso Essegbey, George
Totin, Edmond
Karbo N
Sibiry Traoré, Pierre C.
Zougmoré, Robert B.
 
Subject climate change
agriculture
food security
policies
 
Description Mainstreaming climate change strategies on the basis of Science, Technology and
Innovation (STI) into agricultural food security policies demands multi-dimensional
approaches. In sub-Saharan Africa, the demand is made more complex by the socioeconomic
challenges such as poverty, unstable markets, limited opportunities for
employment and livelihoods. Mainstreaming therefore has to be done on the basis of
informed strategies formulated on comprehensive studies. This study was conducted
to inform the strategies for science-based and climate-smart agriculture in Ghana,
especially with reference to the policy and institutional framework. The methodology
comprised desk research of policy documents and related publications and Key
Informant Interviews (KII). The study was based on the CCAFS Platform areas in
Upper West Region. The research shows that though some efforts were made in the
specific case of the National Climate Change Policy (NCCP), inclusion in the process
did not reach the grassroots. Thus there were weaknesses in harnessing societal
grassroots’ inputs for the policy formulation process. Still the policy has been well
formulated and successfully launched. However, there is lack of awareness and
knowledge about the policy especially in the decentralized levels of society in the
districts and policy literacy is very low. The situation poses a challenge to effective
implementation of the NCCP. To address some of the key challenges identified, it is
vital to strengthen the vertical and horizontal channels of policy communication. The
communication from the national sources to the districts must be improved through
more frequent interaction. In the regions and districts, horizontal communication to
reach out to all stakeholders can be greatly facilitated by the use of the electronic
media.
 
Date 2016-03-16
2016-03-16T14:23:34Z
2016-03-16T14:23:34Z
 
Type Working Paper
 
Identifier Essegbey G, Totin E, Karbo N, Traoré PS, Zougmoré R. 2016. Assessment of climate change policy and institutional context: The case of Ghana. CCAFS Working Paper no. 164. Copenhagen, Denmark: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/72643
FP4_ICRISATWA
 
Language en
 
Relation CCAFS Working Paper
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-ND
Open Access
 
Format 43 p.
application/pdf