This Vulnerability Assessment Report is the third deliverable of the assignment funded by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) Adapt’Action Facility for MESTI, MoFA and GIDA, aimed at assessing the opportunity and feasibility of rainwater harvesting for agriculture in the Kwahu Afram Plains (KAP).
The objective of this report is to investigate the present and future climatic conditions of the KAP and assess the impact of climate variability and vulnerabilities to climate change of agriculture, water resources and socio-economic trends. Later studies and reports will assess the options for adaptation of rainwater harvesting and other intervention measures in the KAP.
Ghana’s first Adaptation Communication (AdCom) takes stock of what has been done and what has been achieved; it also looks at existing gaps and what else needs to be accomplished to consolidate Ghana’s adaptation gains going forward. While great strides continue to be made towards adaptation planning in Ghana, gains so far have been modest and only provide a basis for further commitments and more ambitious actions that ensure climate-resilient sustainable development across sectors, contexts and at multiple levels.
From policy development, collaborative partnerships, knowledge development, capacity building, institutional strengthening, program planning to implementation, these are focused areas in adaptation planning in Ghana that have seen significant progress in various sectors.
This capacity Building Strategy and Collaborative Framework Implementation Plan is tethered to the National Adaptation Plan’s Private Sector Engagement Strategy launched in 2020 by the Ghana EPA and the International Institute for Sustainable Development.
The NAP PSES was developed to enhance private sector engagement in climate change action in Ghana in both NAP planning/development and in its implementation. The PSES therefore identifies several key private sector actors, and how best to engage them in the implementation of the NAP. It prioritizes the federations and associations as the first point of call for engaging the private sector in resilient development.
Climate change affects different people in different ways depending on gender. Women and men play specific roles in their households and communities and are therefore exposed in unique ways to climate risks.
There are also gender differences in opportunities, access to and control over resources and decision-making power, all of which influence people’s adaptation priorities and capacity to adapt (UNFCCC, 2015b, 2018; Vincent et al., 2014).
A gender responsive NAP process takes these issues into consideration while actively promoting gender equality (Dazé & Dekens, 2017; NAP Global Network & UNFCCC, 2019).
Infrastructure, particularly that relating to energy, water, and transport, has been identified as a priority sector in both Ghana’s Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Climate Agreement and its National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Framework.
The vulnerability and resilience of Ghana’s infrastructure to the impacts of climate change will be crucially important to a number of different economic sectors. The overarching goal of this plan is to develop an effective adaptation strategy and action plan for Ghana’s water, energy, and transport infrastructure, covering all levels of decision making, in order to increase the sector’s resilience to climate change.
The goal of the NAP private sector engagement strategy is to enhance private sector engagement in climate change action in Ghana.
The document considers the role of the private sector in both NAP planning/development and its implementation. It identifies a number of keys private sector stakeholders to involve in NAP implementation and lays out how to best engage them.
It also considers how strategic alliances can be developed, including through public–private partnerships.
The National Adaptation Planning (NAP) process is a key effort by the Government of Ghana to address climate change impacts from a more integrated, coordinated and sustainable manner.Ghana’s vulnerability to the impacts of climate change necessitates that we consciously plan for current and future climate change.
The purpose of this document is to provide an overall framework to guide the country in developing, coordinating and implementing its NAP process.
