Ghana Landscape Restoration and Small-Scale Mining Project

About this project

The project is supporting a community-led integrated landscape approach to improve management of forest and savannah ecosystems in the target areas and enhance resilience of ecosystems and populations dependent on them. The interrelationship among agriculture, biodiversity (including wildlife) conservation, mining, and forestry calls for a holistic integrated landscape approach to provide ecosystem services. Smallholder farmers access to finance also needs to be improved and critical supply chain bottlenecks removed in the value chains by focusing on improved storage and post-storage processing. Therefore, a win-win vision for the environment and regional economy is exploiting green drivers of growth compatible with improved watershed management, supported by appropriate commercial and social infrastructure. Tree crops are identified as a key economic driver. The potential for additional agricultural diversification and nature-based tourism needs to be supported for better resource management at the landscape level. Farm-based aquaculture is an important economic and food security activity, scaled up under the project additional financing. Uncontrolled illegal small-scale mining, including extraction of gold, sand winnowing, and stone quarrying, has resulted in serious deforestation and land degradation – requiring a meaningful effort to formalize and train small-scale miners in environmentally-smart mining as part of the landscape-wide management approach. This requires str…

Published by

World Bank · Multilateral

Countries

Ghana

Sectors

Forestry policy and administrative managementAgro-industriesAgricultural policy and administrative managementIndustrial policy and administrative managementMineral/mining policy and administrative management

Places

Republic of Ghana, Sissala West, Wa East, Sissala East, Talensi-Nabdam, Sawla-Tuna-Kalba, Bawku West, Sene, Adansi South, Asante Akim South District and 15 more

Funded by

International Development Association

Implemented by

Environmental Protection Authority

Accountable

The Republic of Ghana

Passes funds through

International Development Association

Published by World Bank to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 3 Oct 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: 44000-P171933.

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