Climate Adaptation Plan for the Kassena Nankana Municipality: Ghana

The Climate Adaptation Plan for the Kassena Nankana Municipality provides a roadmap for addressing climate vulnerabilities in Northern Ghana. It identifies key risks—including temperature rises of 1.5C to 2.5C and erratic rainfall—and proposes prioritized interventions across agriculture, water, health, gender, and infrastructure. The plan emphasizes a blended financing approach and a participatory monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) framework to ensure sustainable and inclusive implementation.

• Climate projections for the Kassena Nankana Municipality indicate that average temperatures are expected to increase by 1.5C to 2.5C by the middle of the century, accompanied by more frequent and intense heatwaves and dry spells.
• The municipality faces a paradoxical climate trend where both droughts and flash flooding occur within the same growing seasons, with a specific intensification of dry spells during the early rainy season from April to May.
• In the agricultural sector, the highest priority adaptation actions include expanding extension services for agroforestry and conservation farming, improving drainage systems and retention ponds, and providing incentives for climate-resilient tools and crops.
• Water resource adaptation priorities focus on developing agroforestry systems to buffer against extreme weather, expanding small-scale irrigation, and training extension officers to serve as climate information services (CIS) ambassadors.
• Gender-specific adaptation focuses on economic empowerment through income diversification into alternative livelihoods like agro-processing and handicrafts, and strengthening women's participation in decision-making bodies.
• Health adaptation strategies prioritize training healthcare workers in climate-sensitive disease prevention, expanding vaccination services for climate-induced risks, and implementing control measures for malaria and other vector-borne diseases.
• Infrastructure priorities emphasize training local communities in disaster-resilient construction techniques and supporting the local production of affordable, climate-resilient building materials such as flood-resistant bricks.
• The plan proposes a blended financing strategy utilizing national funds (such as the Ghana Climate Change Fund and District Assemblies Common Fund), international grants (Green Climate Fund, Adaptation Fund, GEF), public-private partnerships, and innovative tools like green bonds and carbon markets.
• A participatory Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) framework has been designed to track progress using a mix of community-based reporting, remote sensing, GIS technology, and traditional knowledge.

APA

NAP Global Network (2025). Climate Adaptation Plan for the Kassena Nankana Municipality: Ghana. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/ghana-2025-kassena-climate-adaptation-plan.pdf

Chicago

NAP Global Network. Climate Adaptation Plan for the Kassena Nankana Municipality: Ghana. 2025. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/ghana-2025-kassena-climate-adaptation-plan.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{napglobalnetwork2025climate, author = {{NAP Global Network}}, title = {{Climate Adaptation Plan for the Kassena Nankana Municipality: Ghana}}, institution = {NAP Global Network}, year = {2025}, month = aug, url = {https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/ghana-2025-kassena-climate-adaptation-plan.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }