AAP GHANA
EVIDENCE BASED DECISION AND
POLICY MAKING
AAP Ghana Team
Nov 15 2012
OUTLINE
General Approach
Lessons Learned
Deliverables
Sustainability
Conclusions
General Approah
Generate the relevant information and
data
Focus on and package the risks,
opportunities and benefits
Communicate strategically
Ultimately to Mainstream- High level
Decisions-Policy formulation,
planning, budgeting and
implementation and Monitoring and
Evaluation
Climate change mainstreaming
DISTRICT
Climate change mainstreaming
Monitoring and Evaluation
Climate change mainstreaming
Budgeting and implementation
SECTOR
OF MAINSTREAMING
planning
NATIONAL
Policy formulation
Application
P
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LEVELS
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A Guidebook on how to Integrate Climate
Change and Disaster Risk Reduction into
National Development Planning and
Budgeting Processes
Sector Scoping and Impact AssessmentsEconomic Modeling to determine costs and
benefits of Climate change- Majot Inputs
into the National Climate Change Policy
Achievement Sheet
Indicator on Climate Change into District
Budgeting
Policy Advisory series on 17 different topics
FUTURE CLIMATE PROJECTIONS
INTERVENTION IN PILOT DISTRICTS
High level interactions
Minister for Environment actively
involved in inviting participants
Follow up by a very senior person
Theory U Process, Drama, Story
Telling, Proverbs
Working with and not for Decision
/Policy makers yields better results
than otherwise.
Council of State, Parliamentarians, Ministers of
State and Regional Ministers, District Chief
Executives
Working with High Level
Decision/Policy Makers
District Chief Executive signing a
Commitment Note
Exit/Sustainability Strategy
Training of Trainers on Economic Analyses
and Climate Change
Community of Practice
Follow up and regularise High level-working
key influential persons from Government,
business, Chiefs, Parliament, NGO, Chiefs
etc
Lessons learnt from Pilot districts and
Indicator into District Budgeting
Meet with all major stakeholders and
integrate into their annual work plans
Implementation Schedule, track with
indicators for the next 5 years
Conclusion
The Best way to predict the
future is to create it-Theory
U Process
continue to work with Decision/policy
makers, technocrats
generate the information,
determine and pull the future in reality