1. BUILDING PARTERNSHIPS TO PROMOTE
CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE: A CASE
STUDY FROM NORTHERN GHANA
J. Naab, R. Zougmore & A.S. Abdoulaye
2ND GCARD, 29 – 31 November, 2012, Punta del Este, Uruguay

2. INTRODUCTION
Ghana one of the CCAFS benchmark sites in WA
Goal of CCAFS is to promote Climate Smart
Agriculture (CSA)
CSA can have different meaning depending on the
scale it is being applied e.g. local, national or global;
Effective partnership to ensure that the different
temporal and spatial scales work together properly.
CSA also entails new financing mechanisms

3. Engaging multiple stakeholders to
facilitate enhanced climatic risk management

4. Purpose
To describe the process of identification
and engagement of key partners for the
Doggoh Climate Smart Village in the
Upper West Region of Ghana.

5. The Partnership Building Process
Village based survey
Gender analysis of climate change issues
Organizational baseline survey
Farms of the Future Workshop
Community workshop to define vision, actions
to be taken and potential partners

6. PLANNED ACTIVITIES TO BE TAKEN
MEN WOMEN
Integrated Soil Fertility Soybean production &
processing
Management (ISFM) for
Small ruminant rearing
Increased Crop
Tree planting (Moringa)
Production
Strengthen existing groups
Agroforestry
Improved micro-financing
Re-afforestation of activity
degraded areas Nutritional improvement

7. COMMUNITY LEVEL COMMITTEES
GENDER MANAGEMENT
INTEGRATED SOIL FERTILITY MANAGEMENT
AGROFORESTRY
BUSHFIRE SQUAD
GENERAL, composed of reps from above committees

8. DISTRICT WORKSHOP
Presentation of community vision, action plan, outcome
challenges etc.
Formation of a CCA committee/panel
Purpose is to examine how best key stakeholders can work
together to take a coordinated approach.
Quarterly meetings to review, plan, monitor and evaluate
progress;
Village committees report to District CCA panel

9. DISTRICT CLIMATE CHANGE
ADAPTATION COMMITTEE
Chiefs of Doggoh & Bompari villages
Assemblymen for Doggoh & Bompari communities;
MOFA, Lawra District
MOFA, Jirapa District
Gender Officer, MOFA, Jirapa District
Forestry Department
Veterinary Officer, Lawra

10. CCA COMMITTEE …continued
Input Dealers Association
LACERD, NGO
MIHOSO, NGO
CSIR – SARI
CSRI – FORIG
RADIO FREED, NANDOM
Daily Graphic
Ghana Meteorological Services (Wa)/Aghrymet

11. PARTNERSHIPS IN DOGGOH VILLAGE
CSIR-SARI
INPUT
FORIG
DEALERS
UG/GIZ
GHANA
MET/AGHRYMET EXTENSION
DOGGOH CSA
WIAD VILLAGE
LACERD
DISTRICT
ASSEMBLY
MIHOSO
MEDIA FSD GNFS

12. NEXT STEPS
Develop guidelines and MOAs
Capacity building for partners
Development & implementation of workplans
Establishment of PM&E measures to draw
lessons
Review of implementation & lesson learning
including review of workplans in response to
lessons and re-assessment of priorities.

13. LESSONS LEARNED
One of the key benefits of setting up the CCA
Panel has been the willingness of agencies to
work together.
Partners have been happy to sit down together
& be open.
That has been driven in part by the realization
that no one organization has the solution and
that this is a new issue.

14. CHALLENGES
The need & willingness to engage with communities.
To recognize the different values that different
partners hold.
These differences can be difficult to reconcile but you
need to recognize that there are different
motivations, so you need to learn about these and
understand how to work with them;
Mainstreaming climate change into their workplan;
Who funds activities of partners???

15. SOME MEMBERS OF THE CCA PANEL

16. THANK YOU