Ghana Shea Landscape Emission Reductions Project Ghana

The Gender Action Plan for the Ghana Shea Landscape Emission Reductions Project establishes a framework to address gender gaps in forest resource management and the shea industry. It mandates the hiring of a Gender and Safeguards Officer and sets quantitative targets for women's participation in decision-making bodies, training, and employment. Key objectives include ensuring women's rights in Modified Taungya System (MTS) contracts, increasing women's access to shea processing technologies, and integrating gender perspectives into Environmental and Social Impact Assessments (ESIA). The plan allocates a total gender-responsive budget of 13,273,339 USD across various activities, including shea parkland restoration and value chain strengthening.

• The project will employ a Gender and Safeguards Officer for its entire duration to lead the planning, implementation, and monitoring of gender-responsive actions within the Project Management Unit.
• The plan sets specific participation targets for women in community forest management, aiming for women to make up 40% of decision-making body members in Community Resource Management Areas (CREMA), Community Resource Management Committees (CRMC), and Community Executive Committees (CEC).
• To support the shea value chain, the project aims for 50% of selected farm sites and 50% of local nurseries to be farmed, owned, or managed by women's groups.
• The project intends to improve women's economic competitiveness in the shea industry by introducing new processing technologies for fruits into kernels and fuel briquettes from waste, with a target that 90% of women using these technologies report increased profits.
• Regarding the Modified Taungya System (MTS), the project targets 100% of signed contracts to explicitly confirm women's rights, obligations, and benefits.
• The project aims to integrate gender perspectives into environmental safeguards, targeting that 80% of findings from the Gender Assessment and Action Plan (GAAP) are integrated into the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA).
• The total budget allocated for activities where gender equality is a significant or principal objective is 13,273,339 USD.

APA

Green Climate Fund (2020). Ghana Shea Landscape Emission Reductions Project Ghana. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/fp137-gender-action-plan.pdf

Chicago

Green Climate Fund. Ghana Shea Landscape Emission Reductions Project Ghana. 2020. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/fp137-gender-action-plan.pdf.

Wikipedia

{{cite report |author=Green Climate Fund |title=Ghana Shea Landscape Emission Reductions Project Ghana |date=6 October 2020 |url=https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/fp137-gender-action-plan.pdf |access-date=23 October 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@techreport{greenclimatefund2020ghana, author = {{Green Climate Fund}}, title = {{Ghana Shea Landscape Emission Reductions Project Ghana}}, institution = {Green Climate Fund}, year = {2020}, month = oct, url = {https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/fp137-gender-action-plan.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }