The two-day workshop provided the platform to share lessons and information on policy, programmes and process issues, and to review the environment and climate change sub-sector on thematic issues including climate change, biodiversity, desertification and land use planning, and environmental policy framework and assessments, among others.
It was organised by KASA under the CARE Ghana's Natural Resources and Environmental Governance (NREG) project, which seeks to reduce poverty through improved natural resource and environmental governance, with support from CARE Denmark.
The workshop was held with reference to the Post-Doha 2012 information sharing meeting which was organised by KASA, a key member of the Environment and Climate Change Working Group on March 28, this year.??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
The objective of the workshop was to support civil society and media organisations in advocating for equitable access, accountability, and transparency in natural resource and environmental governance in a concerted effort.
In the long-term, the project will benefit the majority of natural resource-dependent Ghanaians, estimated at 60-80% of the total population of Ghana.
CARE and its partners?International Communications Consultancy Organisation (ICCO) and SNV, a Netherlands Development Organisation will be working with 100 stakeholder entities, primary civil society organisations as well as the government, research and? media organisations.
Through NREG, CARE is providing core grants and small grants to civil society organisations that represent different geographical regions and varying natural resource and environmental issues affecting poor and marginalised people, so they can better advocate for equitable natural resource and environmental governance.
Some of the recommendations at the workshop included a call for an independent body to regulate NRE governance and the need to set up performance-based indicators to monitor the performance of civil society organisations in NRE governance.
It was also recommended that a National Housing Policy and a National Land-use Planning Policy should be formulated.
During discussions, it came out that a National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy had been formulated without first putting in place a National Climate Change Policy and that there was limited participation in the drawing up of the strategy, as there was no country-level participation, neither was there any political party consultations.
It also came to light that a National Climate Change Policy had received cabinet approval and a National Climate Change Committee established,
Another observation was that, while climate change had been mainstreamed into the Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda, Ghana?s Economic Planning Policy and Budget Statement did not make any provision for climate change.
It was recommended that rather than mitigation, efforts should be directed at climate change adaptation.
The workshop agreed that there was nothing wrong tdepend on development partners for support and also came to the conclusion that climate change consultations should go beyond experts, duty bearers and civil society actors to include people at the community level, using participatory tools.
Source: ISD (G.D. Zaney)
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