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

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LEVELS OF MAINSTREAMINGApplication

DELIVERABLES

A Guidebook on how to Integrate Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction into National Development Planning and Budgeting Processes

Sector Scoping and Impact Assessments-

Economic 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

LESSSONS LEARNED

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

SUSTAINABILITY

Exit/Sustainability Strategy Training of Trainers on Economic Analyses and Climate Change Community of PracticeFollow up and regularise High level-working key influential persons from Government, business, Chiefs, Parliament, NGO, Chiefs etcLessons learnt from Pilot districts and Indicator into District BudgetingMeet with all major stakeholders and integrate into their annual work plansImplementation 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

Thanks very much