UNDP Gender Responsive and Integrated Landscape Management in the Ashanti Region of Ghana Initiative Project

About this project

Ghana’s trend of forest loss poses a significant threat to the livelihoods of forest fringe communities, particularly women and the youth, as well as ecosystem services and functionality, that support Ghana’s predominantly agrarian economy.In order to address this, the project seeks to build on the significant work that Ghana has already undertaken within its forest landscapes and seeks to integrate lessons and innovation to strengthen climate mitigation and resilience in the forestry sector. The intervention proposed, which would be part of one of the key priority programmes under the REDD+ strategy, the Ghana Cocoa Forest REDD+ Programme, would seek to apply key activities and methods that would help curtail the rate of deforestation and forest degradation whiles enhancing the resilience of women and communities to address climate vulnerabilities and achieve related outcomes. As a result, the project looks at enhancing the adaptive capacity of community members, especially women, to climate change and drought. Areas suitable for cocoa production, are contracting as temperatures rise, floods increase, and soil salinization.The key immediate outcomes of the project will largely be on the following 2 key outcomes:1. Increased equitable access by women to capacity building and solutions, including technologies, and enabling environments for climate governance in the Ahafo Ano South and Atwima forest landscapes of the Ashanti region in Ghana: This will be achieved through:i. Ca…

Goals

Sustainable Development Goals this project works towards

• 13Climate Action
• 15Life on Land

Published by

United Nations Development Programme · Multilateral

Countries

Ghana

Sectors

Forestry development

Funded by

GOVERNMENT OF CANADA

Implemented by

UNDP

Accountable

UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

Published by United Nations Development Programme to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 5 Oct 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XM-DAC-41114-PROJECT-01002133.

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