The Kintampo Municipal Assembly Climate Adaptation Plan: Ghana

The Kintampo Municipal Assembly Climate Adaptation Plan (KMAP) provides a comprehensive strategy to build resilience against climate hazards such as droughts, floods, and bushfires in Ghana's Bono East Region. The plan prioritizes on-farm actions like conservation agriculture and irrigation, off-farm knowledge dissemination, and gender-responsive initiatives. It outlines a diverse funding framework leveraging government, international, and private resources, and establishes a monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) system to track progress. Coordination is led by a dedicated Climate Desk within the Municipal Planning and Coordinating Unit, supported by a multi-stakeholder platform.

• The Kintampo Municipality is highly vulnerable to climate hazards including droughts, floods, bushfires, windstorms, and erratic rainfall, which specifically threaten agriculture, water resources, health, tourism, forestry, and infrastructure.
• Agriculture is the most critical sector for adaptation, as approximately 70% of the population is engaged in the sector and relies heavily on rain-fed farming.
• Prioritized on-farm adaptation measures include conservation agriculture (specifically minimizing soil disturbance), the development of small-scale irrigation dams, agroforestry promotion (such as water conservation plantings), and the establishment of fire belts for bushfire management.
• Off-farm adaptation priorities focus on the use of mobile applications and community radio for weather information, capacity development for agricultural extension officers, and the establishment of weather information centres.
• Gender-based adaptation is essential to address the disproportionate impacts on women, youth, and persons with disabilities, with priorities including gender-responsive programs, training in climate-smart practices, and the creation of women-focused cooperatives.
• The plan identifies specific spatial hotspots of vulnerability, including rural agricultural areas (Kadelso, New Longoro, and Babatokuma), low-lying settlements around Kintampo town, and the Bosomoa Forest Reserve.
• A strategic funding framework is proposed to mobilize resources from the Climate Change Fund, District Assemblies Common Fund, international grants (such as the Green Climate Fund and Adaptation Fund), and public-private partnerships.
• The implementation of the plan will be coordinated by a 'Climate Desk' within the Municipal Planning and Coordinating Unit, supported by a Climate Adaptation Coordination Platform (CACP) that includes traditional authorities and private sector actors.

APA

NAP Global Network (2025). The Kintampo Municipal Assembly Climate Adaptation Plan: Ghana. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/ghana-2025-kintampo-climate-adaptation-plan.pdf

Chicago

NAP Global Network. The Kintampo Municipal Assembly Climate Adaptation Plan: Ghana. 2025. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/ghana-2025-kintampo-climate-adaptation-plan.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{napglobalnetwork2025kintampo, author = {{NAP Global Network}}, title = {{The Kintampo Municipal Assembly Climate Adaptation Plan: Ghana}}, institution = {NAP Global Network}, year = {2025}, month = aug, url = {https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/ghana-2025-kintampo-climate-adaptation-plan.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }