Presentation at the CCAFS Ghana science-policy dialogue platform national stakeholders' workshop on 4 July 2019 in Tamale, Ghana. Including: * Platform structure and function as a way forward for an effective operation and visibility at regional and national levels by Mr. Kingsley Odum Sam. * Major achievements of the platform in terms of outputs and outcomes by Mr. Vincent Ansah Botchway * Strategic focus and major activities going forward by Mr. Delali Nutsukpoh

1. GHANA CCAFS SCIENCE-POLICY DIALOGUE
PLATFORM
CCAFS WORKSHOP ON WEST AFRICA POLICY PROJECT
(2019-2021)
EXPERT TEAM:
DR. N. KARBO
DR. G. O. ESSEGBEY
MR. D. K. NUTSUKPO
MR. V. A. BOTCHWAY
MR. K. O. SAM
MODERN CITY HOTEL, TAMALE
4TH JULY, 2019

2. • INTRODUCTION
• PLATFORM STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
• MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS
• STRATEGIC FOCUS AND MAJOR ACTIVITIES
• CONCLUSION
CONTENT

3. • CCAFS Platform concept was initiated by
CCAFS West Africa (ICRISAT, Bamako, Mali)
• Goal:
– To promote a food-secure world through the
provision of science-based efforts that support
sustainable agriculture and enhance livelihoods
while adapting to climate change and conserving
natural resources and environmental services
INTRODUCTION

4. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
1. Network and interact regularly with relevant
stakeholders to develop Ghana’s priorities and
needs for adaptation to climate change.
2. Form strategic alliances for optimization of
environmental resources through inter-
institutional networking, knowledge sharing and
learning, and research.
3. Share policy status and options for climate
change adaptation and mitigation in agriculture
4. Ensure widespread dissemination of outputs and
knowledge products from evidence-based
research.
5. Identify related research needs and priorities
and conduct supportive studies to facilitate
policy and decision-making processes
6. Build capacities to enhance change and
adaptation to climate change effects at the local,
national and sub-regional levels
7. Facilitate agribusiness related activities to
enhance rural livelihoods and empowerment.
MAIN OBJECTIVE
To enhance climate change adaptation in the agricultural sector in rural
communities in Ghana through exchange of information, experience sharing,
learning to influence policy.

5. THE CCAFS PLATFORM GHANA
• The Platform is hosted by CSIR-ARI
• Formed in 2012 through a multi-stakeholder dialogue
• Launched on 30th July 2013 with strong ministerial support
from MESTI, MoFA and MoTI
• Registered with Registrar's General Department in Ghana
• A member of Global Alliance for CSA (GACSA)
• A member of W/A CSA Alliance launched in Mali

6. Launching of Ghana Platform

7. PLATFORM STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS:
THE WAY FORWARD FOR AN EFFECTIVE
OPERATION AND VISIBILITY

8. GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE
• Secretariat established with
– Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary, M&E Focal Person,
Accountant and Executive Member
• National Core Team formed with
– Representatives of 10 strategic partnership organizations
• CSIR, MOFA, FAO, NDPC, EPA, UG, GMet, CSO, NGO, FBO
• Expanded Members
– Over 60 multi-stakeholder members
– Representing various institutions and organizations
• Sub-national level platforms
– Comprising local level policy and decision makers (e.g.
DAs, Traditional Authorities, CSOs/NGOs, Farmer Groups
& Associations)
– A multi-stakeholder

9. COMPOSITION AND FUNCTIONS
LEVEL ROLES
Secretariat  Constitutes the administrative unit.
 Ensures the routine operations of the platform
Core Team  Comprises reps from 10 strategic organizations.
 Forms the planning and implementation team.
 Directs programs and projects implementation
National
Platform
• Encompasses the overall platform membership
• As multi-stakeholders and boundary partners
• Supports the implementation of platform activities
at various levels
Sub-
National
Platforms
• Play active roles at the local level
• As hubs for collaborations
• Entry points for programs, projects and research
activities

10. PLATFORM FRAMEWORK

11. Ghana
Science-Policy
Dialogue Platform
Farmer-Based and
Community-Based
Organisations
Traditional
Authorities and
Religious Bodies
Academic and
Research
Institutions
Policy and
Decision
Makers
Development
Partners
NGOs and
CSOs
Media Groups
Religious Bodies Network
on Climate Change
(RELBONET)
University of
Ghana, Legon
Council for Scientific and
Industrial Research
Kwame Nkrumah
University of Science
and Technology
University of
Cape Coast
National Development Planning
Commission
Ghana Meteorological Agency
Forestry Commission
Environmental Protect Agency
Ministry of Food and Agriculture
Ministry of Trade and Industry
Ministry of Environment, Science,
Technology and Innovation
United Nations FAO World Bank
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)
CCAFS West Africa
Climate Change
Action Network
Care
International
Nandom Deanery Integrated
Rural Development
Programme (NANDIRDEP)
Ghana Society of
Animal Production
Africa Rising
Association of Church-
based Development NGOs
(ACDEP)
Centre for Indigenous Knowledge
and Organizational Development
Daily Graphic
Rite FM
Daily Democrat
Ghanaian Times
Ghana News Agency
West Link FM
Joy FM
The Insight
The Investor
TV3
Chiefs
Queen Mothers
Land Lords
and Ladies
Ghana National
Association of Farmers
and Fishermen
Global Farmers
Wives Association

12. BOUNDARY & STRATEGIC PARTNERS (BSPs)
• National Directors
• Policy Decision Makers
• Parliamentarians
• Researchers/Academicians
• Municipal/District
Assemblies Workers
• Media People
• Traditional Rulers
• Religious Leaders
• Farmers
• NGOs
BSPs the Ghana platform seeks to influence include:

13. MAJOR PLATFORM ACHIEVEMENTS
IN TERMS OF OUTPUTS & OUTCOMES

14. SEMINAR WITH GOV’T
MINISTERS, DIRECTORS,
CHIEF DIRECTORS AND
LEGISLATORS
(PARLIAMENTARIANS)
Seminar on Climate Change and Variability–The need for
integrating adaptation actions into sectoral plans and budgets was
organized for high level policy makers
SOME KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

15. Political buy in by
Parliamentarians
in Ghana

16. CCAFS W/A Program Leader sharing Climate
Change Publication with some dignitaries
SHARING OF KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTS
M&E Focal Person sharing CSA Action Plan
with
Stephan Becker-Sonnenschein (Founder and
Head of Global Food Summit, Germany)
Secretary sharing knowledge products with
Former Deputy of MoFA In-Charge of
Livestock

17. • To operationalize the National Climate Change Policy (NCCP)
Document launched by H. E. Former President John Dramani
Mahama.
• Validation in Ashanti Region was supported by CARE International
and finalized under the chairmanship of Deputy Regional Minister
DEVELOPMENT OF CSA AND FOOD SECURITY ACTION PLAN

18. Engagement with the
Academia: Key Outputs
• Eminent Scientists and
Relevant stakeholders
sensitized on NCCP,
National CSA and Food
Security Action Plan
• Communiqué
developed and
submitted to
government
• Publications
(Conference papers &
Journal Articles)

19. SENSITIZATION AND PROFILING OF CSA TECHNOLOGIES AND
PRACTICES IN THE GUINEA SAVANNAH AND FOREST AGRO-
ECOLOGICAL ZONES IN GHANA
(INVOLVEMENT OF CHIEFS, QUEEN MOTHERS AND POLICY MAKERS)

21. FORMATION OF 10 SUB-NATIONAL PLATFORMS
Collaboration with
CARE Int’l and
MOFA/WAAPP
(Establish and Launch
Platforms)
Lambussie District Platform
Nadowli-Kaleo District Platform
WITH MOFA/WAAPP
• Support and enrich e-Agric
Platform with information on
CSA,
• Sensitize and train key
stakeholders on climate
change adaptation issues
• Replicate District Platforms
To close gap between community people – researchers – policy decision makers
CCAFS, W/A = 3
CARE Int’l - 2
MOFA/WAAPP = 5
Lambussie District Platform

22. SUPPORT TRANSITION OF GHANA’S AGRICULTURE TO
CSA
• Review of Ghana’s CSA Action
Plan and other sectoral
policies, programmes and plans
to ensure synergies and
linkages
• Review of CSA interventions
and practices in Ghana
• Developed 9 District Level CSA
Investment Frameworks
Responsive to the Ghana CSA
and Food Security Action Plan
– Some DAs remarked that CSA
investment frameworks along
the value chain will guide their
development plans

23. INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS
• ICRISAT
– Conducted scenario-guided
multi-level policy revision
of the Ghana Livestock
Policy Workshop. July, 2016
• International Center for
Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
– Conducted country
profiling of CSA and
developing CSA
prioritization framework
for Ghana

24. PARTNERSHIPS & LINKAGE MECHANISMS (2012-2019)
PARTNER LINKAGE MECHANISM OUTPUTS/OUTCOMES
International Level
CCAFS, West Africa
(ICRISAT), CGIAR
Project planning meetings
Information Sharing
Growing organizational
competence
Joint project implementation Increasing visibility of platform
Conferences/Workshops Engaging high level policy
Funding projects and programs Functional platform at all levels for
policy influence
Training, Capacity Building, Cogeneration of knowledge
products and dissemination
UADA-
NEPAD/ACSAA
CSA strategy planning meeting Visibility and recognition
ACSAA Workshops Sharing knowledge products
Consultations on Vision 25x25 Visibility and recognition
CIAT, CGIAR Joint project implementation Country CSA profiling; Enhancing
capacity of members

25. PARTNERSHIPS & LINKAGE MECHANISMS CONT’D
PARTNER LINKAGE MECHANISM OUTPUTS/OUTCOMES
Local Level
CARE, Ghana Consultancy, Collaborative
Project Implementation
Sub-national CSA platforms (2) set up in
UWR
MoFA, WAAPP Joint project
implementation
Policy influence; Sub-national CSA
platforms (5) set up in Southern Ghana
FAO (Ghana) Consultancy, Collaborative
Project Implementation
Development of CSA investment
Framework; CA Profiling in Ghana
ASSAR (Univ. of
Ghana)
Collaborative project
implementation
Strengthening collaboration with sub-
national platforms
Climate Smart
Villages/CSIR
Field visits and data sharing Co-generation of CSA knowledge products;
Social learning and extension
Sub-national CSA
platforms
Joint project
implementation
Capacity strengthening; Co-generation of
CSA knowledge products;
Workshops/Training Bottom up approach for farmer-research-
policy dialogue
Reporting Recognition by District Assemblies

26. SALIENT SCIENTIFIC OUTPUTS/RESULTS FROM 2011-2017
NO. OUTPUTS PUBLICATION TITLES
1 Awareness on climate change created
among stakeholders in Ghana
Ghana Climate Change, Agriculture And Food Security
Platform Review Vol.1 Issues 1 and 2 (2014)
2 CSA technologies and practices identified
and profiled by agro-ecological zones
Climate Smart Agricultural Practices In Ghana (2016)
3 Climate change and institutional policy
gaps at sub-national levels in Ghana
identified
Assessment of Climate Change Policy and Institutional
Context: The Case of Ghana (2014)
4 CSA action plan developed for Ghana National Climate Smart Agriculture And Food Security
Action Plan (2015)
5 Manual for participatory profiling of CSA
technologies and practices for Ghana
developed
Technologies and Practices for Climate Smart
Agriculture (CSA) In Ghana: A Participatory Profiling
Manual (2015)
6 Notes for review of Ghana livestock policy
document developed
Proceedings on the Scenario-Guided Review of the
Ghana Livestock Policy (2016)
7 Operational guide to facilitate formation of
platforms developed
Systems and Operations of the Ghana Science-Policy
Dialogue Platform On Climate Change, Agriculture And
Food Security (2016)
8 Ten (10) sub-national platforms
established and capacitated in Ghana
Scaling Up of CSA Platforms at the Sub-national (District
Levels) In Ghana: A Progressive Achievement of the
Ghana CCAFS Platform(2016)
9 Draft national CSA financial plan National CSA Financial Plan (2017)

27. KEY DEVELOPMENT OUTCOMES AND IMPACTS
• Knowledge on climate change and CSA enhanced among stakeholders
• Deeper awareness among farmers and other actors on implication of climate
change and their activities
• Increased potential financial inflows into CSA (FAO support transition Ghana’s
agriculture to CSA)
• Policy pronouncement that the sub-national platform should be scaled up
• A call on government national policy level for up-scaling the sub-national
platforms in Ghana
• Increased collaborative effort between the private sector, CSO, the public sector
to address climate change
• Conscious effort to protect the environment by developing by-laws
• The CSA action plan has mainstreamed CSA investment in agric sector
investment plan (METASIP III)
• The Draft CSA Financial Plan has become relevant input for the development of
CSA Investment Plan (CSAIP) by the World Bank through MoFA, which will be
linked to the Adaptation of African Agriculture (AAA) Initiative.

28. STRATEGIC FOCUS AND MAJOR
ACTIVITIES GOING FOWARD

29. A SWOT ANALYSIS
Strengths:
• Structured and functional multi-stakeholder group
• Over 7 years of collaboration with CCAFS, West Africa
• Immense organizational experience and competence
• Institutional networking excellence
• Committed and self-motivated members
• Member of the Global Alliance for CSA (GACSA)
• Experience with setting up and development of sub-national
science-policy dialogue platforms
• Presence at national and district levels
• Team dynamics and management competencies
• Skilled Research and Development expertise
• Experience on use of local level human resource for generation of
knowledge products e.g. scenarios, CSA Investment Framework etc.

30. A SWOT ANALYSIS CONT’D
Weaknesses:
• Very low financial portfolio
• Limited evaluation for M & E learning
• Weak ICT knowledge management systems
• Inadequate skills and technical knowledge to
access donor/global green/climate funds
• Weak financial muscle to call the shots scaling
up platform activities locally and internationally
• Inability to hold regular annual meetings to
sustain membership and growth for an amplified
voice

31. A SWOT ANALYSIS CONT’D
Opportunities:
• Demand for CSA knowledge products locally and internationally
addressing climate change and variability
• Increasing vulnerability of small holder agriculture and food systems
to climate change requiring solutions
• Adoption and prosecution of AU Vision 25 X 25 by 2015 by the
member States including Ghana
• AUDA-NEPAD supportive of country CSA platforms and the
development of sub-national structures in tracking Vision 25 X 25
• Favorable government of Ghana policies including the NDCs
supporting CSA
• Existence of regional, continental and global alliances for CSA
partnerships and networking
• Continuous support of CCAFS, West Africa Program of Science-Policy
Dialogue development in the long-term

32. A SWOT ANALYSIS CONT’D
Threats:
• Existence of conflicting philosophies on
approaches for addressing climate change and
vulnerability within agriculture and food
systems; e.g. CSA, Agro-ecology farming and
agricultural intensification
• Turf protectionism by some government/NGO
projects and initiatives in climate change

33. PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES
NO. AREAS KEY STRATEGIC ACTIONS
1 Reducing
poverty
 Conduct of multi-level and evidence based research.
 Promote the uptake of evidence and learning generated and
share particularly with high national policy makers to influence
policy to reduce vulnerability of Smallholder farmers to Climatic
Risks.
 Create at sub-national levels an enabling environments that
connect the generation of CSA practices with next and end users,
 Assess the relevance of the use of CSA practices in local, socially
differentiated contexts through the development of portfolios of
CSA options and context most likely to benefit farmers
2 Improving food
and nutrition
security for
health
 Building Resilient Agro-Systems in the sub-national levels through
active participation in action research and CSA Promotions.
 Jointly disseminate and drive the adoption of R&D interventions
and products that ensure the availability and access to food and
reduce poverty in rural communities.
3 Improving
natural resource
systems and
ecosystem
services
 On Climate Change, Environmental Management and Green
Technology will jointly disseminate and drive the adoption of
R&D interventions and products that minimize the negative
impact of climate change on agriculture, forestry, the
environment and social development.

34. PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES CONT’D
NO. AREAS KEY STRATEGIC ACTIONS
4 Priorities
and
Policies for
CSA
 Jointly develop projects policy instruments to scale up CSA investments
at various scales.
 Ex-ante evaluation and decision support for CSA options
 Food and nutrition security under climate change
 Enabling policy environments for CSA
5 CSA
Technologi
es and
Practices
 Participatory evaluation of CSA technologies and practices in the CSVs
 Evidence and investment planning and application domain for CSA
technologies and practices
 Active involvement in sub-national adaptation planning and
implementation
 Support sub-national capacity building to develop business models for
innovative financing for scaling CSA
 Profiling of indigenous knowledge in rural communities
6 Low-
Emissions
Developme
nt
 Support for institutions to quantify GHG emission evaluation in
smallholder systems
 Support for identifying priorities and options for low-emissions
development
 Policies, incentives and finance for scaling up low-emissions practices

35. PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES CONT’D
NO. AREAS KEY STRATEGIC ACTIONS
7 Climate
Services
and Safety
Nets
 Climate information and early warning for risk management
 Climate information and advisory services for agriculture
 Weather related agricultural insurance products and programmes
 Support climate services investment planning and policy
formulation
8 Science, ICT
and Gender
 Collaboratively develop youth in e-agriculture and gender based
agribusiness programmes.
 Jointly disseminate and drive the adoption of R&D interventions
and products, that ensure livelihood improvements and effective
demonstration of the contribution of STI to agriculture and rural
development e.g. Technology for Livelihood and Wealth Creation
 Value Chain promotion and e-agribusiness.
9 Cross-
cutting
Issues
 Gender and Social inclusion,
 Environmental migration
 Partnerships and capacity for scaling CSA
10 Institutional
strengtheni
ng
 Human resource management and development
 Build and strengthen capacity of personnel and capacitate sub-
national CSA Platforms for resource mobilization

36. CONCLUSION
• The Ghana CSA Science-Policy Dialogue Platform
– An Institutional INNOVATION,
– Multi-stakeholder Platform in nature
– Into knowledge cogeneration, information sharing
and policy influence at all levels
– With outcomes favouring smallholder climate change
adaptation and food systems
– A Member of GACSA
– Increase networking and partnerships (locally and
internationally)
– Well positioned for future local and international
programmes and projects

37. CONTACT:
CCAFS Platform Ghana
P.O. Box AH20, Achimota, Accra, Ghana
Tel: +233302-912178/9
Email ccafsplatform.gh@gmail.com
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