Climate Adaptation Plan for New Juaben South Municipal Assembly: Ghana

The New Juaben South Municipal Assembly (NJSMA) Adaptation Plan (2024–2030) outlines a strategic framework to mitigate climate risks in Ghana's Eastern Region. Following a vulnerability assessment, the plan prioritizes interventions across eight sectors, with agriculture and water resources identified as the most vulnerable. Key strategies include promoting climate-smart agriculture (e.g., aquaculture and animal husbandry), protecting water catchments through afforestation, and improving urban drainage to reduce flooding. The plan emphasizes gender-responsive actions, such as creating social support groups and promoting palm kernel processing for women. Implementation is led by the Municipal Planning Coordination Unit (MPCU) and supported by a multi-stakeholder governance framework and a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) system.

• Agriculture is identified as the most vulnerable sector in the New Juaben South Municipality due to its heavy reliance on rain-fed production, which is threatened by prolonged dry spells, rising temperatures, and extreme rainfall.
• Water resources are also highly vulnerable, with the municipality facing risks from water scarcity and pollution, the latter exacerbated by illegal gold mining (galamsey) occurring upstream in neighbouring districts.
• Climate projections for the municipality indicate that by 2050, mean temperatures could rise to 33.4°C (from 32.3°C) and annual rainfall is expected to increase to a mean of 1,550 mm (from 1,250 mm), though with high variability.
• In the agriculture sector, animal husbandry and aquaculture are the top-ranked adaptation strategies to provide alternative food sources and income.
• The highest priority adaptation actions for water resources include the enforcement of building permit laws to prevent construction in waterways and the promotion of community education and involvement.
• For biodiversity and ecosystems, the plan prioritizes the formation of disaster volunteer groups and the creation of protected areas to safeguard local species and restore degraded landscapes.
• Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) efforts focus heavily on structural interventions, with the construction of improved drainage systems ranked as the top priority to mitigate urban flooding.
• Gender mainstreaming strategies prioritize the creation of social support groups and palm kernel processing to empower women, youth, and persons with disabilities (PWDs) economically.
• The transport sector's primary adaptation goal is the protection of roads and infrastructure from climate-induced degradation, such as flooding and erosion.
• Tourism adaptation focuses on improving accessibility through road construction and tarring, as well as providing better sanitation services to maintain the appeal of tourist sites.
• The municipality has established a first-of-its-kind subnational climate change desk within the Municipal Planning Coordination Unit (MPCU) to lead adaptation governance.
• Implementation of the plan faces several barriers, including inadequate financial resources, weak institutional coordination, and technical skills gaps in maintaining early warning systems.

APA

NAP Global Network (2025). Climate Adaptation Plan for New Juaben South Municipal Assembly: Ghana. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/ghana-2025-njs-climate-adaptation-plan.pdf

Chicago

NAP Global Network. Climate Adaptation Plan for New Juaben South Municipal Assembly: Ghana. 2025. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/ghana-2025-njs-climate-adaptation-plan.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{napglobalnetwork2025climate, author = {{NAP Global Network}}, title = {{Climate Adaptation Plan for New Juaben South Municipal Assembly: Ghana}}, institution = {NAP Global Network}, year = {2025}, month = sep, url = {https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/ghana-2025-njs-climate-adaptation-plan.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }