Climate-resilient landscapes for sustainable livelihoods in northern Ghana
This project aims to boost climate resilience for smallholder farmers in northern Ghana by enhancing food security, strengthening the rural economy, and promoting sustainable livelihoods through climate-resilient agriculture, water management, landscape restoration, and resilient infrastructure.
Smallholder farmers in northern Ghana, where 80 per cent of the workforce relies on rain-fed subsistence agriculture, are increasingly exposed to risks arising from climate variability. Prolonged dry seasons, extreme rainfall, rising temperatures, and unpredictable weather patterns contribute to food insecurity, water scarcity, crop losses, and infrastructure damage. These climatic impacts jeopardise rural livelihoods, ecosystems, and community resilience in one of Ghana's most vulnerable regions.
Key activities of this project include strengthening climate information services, promoting and implementing climate-resilient agricultural practices, restoring degraded landscapes to reduce vulnerability to droughts and floods, facilitating smallholder farmers' access to finance, and enhancing local knowledge and awareness of climate risks and adaptive practices to support long-term adoption.
Project timeline
Pipeline
28 Jul 2017 • 2898 days
Concept note received
28 Jul 2017
Funding proposal received
26 Jun 2018
Cleared by GCF Secretariat
18 Apr 2025
Legal opinion on AE's Internal Approval
21 Apr 2025
Cleared by iTAP
09 Jun 2025
Approved
03 Jul 2025 • 24 days so far
Approved by GCF Board
03 Jul 2025
Under implementation
To be completed
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Financing
- Private sector
- Public sector
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Size
- Micro
- Small
- Medium
- Large
GCF financing
Instrument | Amount |
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Grant | USD 63,211,141 |
Total GCF Financing |
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USD 63,211,141 |
Co-financing
Co-financer | Instrument | Amount |
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Co-Financing | Grant | USD 294,000 |
Co-Financing | In-kind | USD 1,944,967 |
Co-Financing | In-kind | USD 2,848,714 |
Co-Financing | In-kind | USD 500,000 |
Co-Financing | In-kind | USD 1,400,000 |
Total Co-Financing |
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USD 6,987,681 |
GCF Contacts
General media inquiries
GCF CommunicationsSend e-mail
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Project complaints and grievances
GCF Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM)Phone +82 32 458 6186 (KST)
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Integrity issues
GCF Independent Integrity Unity (IIU)Phone +82 32 458 6714 (KST)
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Entity

United Nations Environment Programme
GCF Coordinator, Policy and Programme Division
United Nations Environment Programme, United Nations Avenue, Gigiri, P.O. Box 30552 Nairobi, Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
More contacts
National Designated Authority
Ministry of Finance
Ag. Director, Climate Financing Division
P.O.Box MB40, Ministries, Accra, Ghana
Phone +233244152226
aquansah@mofep.gov.gh
romensah@mofep.gov.gh
jsmith@mofep.gov.gh
fgyamfi@mofep.gov.gh
aasante@mofep.gov.gh
Documents
Title | Type | Date |
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Environmental and social safeguards (ESS) report for FP265: Climate-resilient landscapes for sustainable livelihoods in northern Ghana | Environmental and Social Safeguards report | 16 May 2025 |