NCAP

SEI assisted Ghana’s Environmental Protection Authority and its climate change focal point to develop a plan for climate change adaptation and mitigation. The project sought to strengthen Ghana’s Poverty Reduction Strategy by incorporating consideration of climate change impacts. SEI provided training on planning techniques, including a novel approach to multi-sector planning that was developed by SEI and Ghana EPA staff.

There is a strong relationship between climate and poverty levels. The key findings of the study showed that districts that...

Ghana’s energy sector has already showed signs of susceptibility to climate change, particularly the effect of highly variable precipitation patterns...

Water Resource Management Despite the fact that Ghana has considerable surface and groundwater resources, water resources will be hit hard...

The lack of adequate land management practices has contributed towards a number of critical problems including a decline in soil...

Agricultural land in Ghana is used mainly for production of cereal, cocoa, oil palm, root vegetables, tubers, livestock raising, and...

A quarter of the Ghanaian population lives in coastal zones and roughly 10% depend on coastal fisheries for their livelihoods....

Climate change, in the form of thermal stress, can directly affect cardiovascular and respiratory morbidity and mortality. Indirectly, climate variability...

Phase One At the operational level, the Ghana NCAP project was divided into two, eighteen-month phases. Mainstreaming climate change into...

Lessons Learned from Yemen Project The choice of adaptation strategy depends on the dictates of the particular case study region,...