Strengthening Investments in Gender Responsive Climate Adaptation

About this project

The strengthening Investments in Gender-Responsive Climate Adaptation (SIGRA) project aims to improve the resilience of Ghanaian citizens, particularly women, girls, and vulnerable groups. It seeks to do so by investing in inclusive and gender-responsive climate adaptation initiatives. SIGRA provides technical assistance and support to strengthen governance and national systems with key central level ministries, departments, and agencies. It also provides direct grants to 5 metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs) funding local gender-responsive climate adaptation projects. The project strengthens the ability of targeted metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies to plan, implement, and report on climate adaptation initiatives. The project further strengthens women-led civil society organizations’ (CSOs) participation, voice and influence in government decision-making. Project activities include: (1) supporting Ghanaian ministries and agencies with technical assistance on gender-responsive budgeting and climate adaptation; (2) providing technical assistance to MMDAs on climate risk assessments and formulating gender-responsive climate adaptation initiatives; (3) providing funds to MMDAs for gender-responsive climate adaptation plans; and (4) supporting women-led CSOs to conduct outreach, awareness raising, and advocacy on gender equality and climate adaptation at the MMDA and national levels. The SIGRA project directly benefits 627,000 Ghanaian citizens (…

Published by

Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada (DFATD) · Government

Countries

Ghana

Sectors

Public finance management (PFM)Decentralisation and support to subnational governmentWomen's rights organisations and movements, and government institutionsAgricultural land resourcesEnvironmental policy and administrative managementEnvironmental education/training

Focus

Gender equality · Also contributesEnvironment · Main focusGood governance · Also contributesClimate adaptation · Main focus

Published by Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada (DFATD) to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 2 Nov 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: CA-3-P010611001.

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