Osamu SAITO Academic Programme Officer United Nations University Institute for Sustainability and Peace (UNU-ISP) 5-53-70 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-8925, JAPAN Tel: +81-3-5467-1343 (direct)

Fax: +81-3-3406-7347 (office) saito@unu.edu

Makiko NAEMURA Programme Officer Arid and Semi-Arid Farming Area Division Rural Development Department Japan International Cooperation Agency 1-6th floor, Nibancho Center Building 5-25, Niban-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8012, JAPAN Tel: +81-3-5226-8440

Fax: +81-3-5226-6338 Naemura.Makiko@jica.go.jp

CECAR-Africa is a project for climate and ecosystem change adaptation and resilience

research initiated in 2009. With the financial support from the Science and Technology

Research Partnership for Sustainable Development (SATREPS), which is a

collaborative program of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and the

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the CECAR-Africa is starting a new

five-year Resilience Project, which involves seven leading adaptation and resilience

research institutes in Ghana and Japan.

CECAR Africa A SATREPS Project 2011-2016

Contact:

Yasuko KUSAKARI Socio-economist United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA) University of Ghana Campus, Legon-Accra, GHANA Tel: +233-28955-6657 kusakari@inra.unu.edu cecar.africa.yk@gmail.com

Fuyuki SAGARA Senior Representative Japan International Cooperation Agency Ghana Office 2nd Floor, The Elizabeth, No.68A, Senchi Link, Airport Residential Area, Accra, GHANA Tel: +233-302-760781 Fax: +233-302-760954 Sagara.Fuyuki@jica.go.jp

Enhancing Resilience to Climate and

Ecosystem Changes in Semi-Arid Africa:

An Integrated Approach

Printed: August 2011 Cover Photo: © Arne Hoel/The World Bank Copyright: © 2011 United Nations University Institute for Sustainability and Peace. All Rights Reserved.

Japan

Ghana

GHANA METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY

Theme1 Forecast and assessment of climate change impact on agroecosystem

AGROECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE

To access impact on agricultural production/ecosystem To utilize local knowledge/ technology (species) To maintain diverse ecosystem services

Establishment of Integrated Strategies to Enhancing Resilience

Elaboration of an integrated approach to

enhancing resilience to climate and

ecosystem changes in Northern Ghana/

Semi-Arid Africa. To this end, the following

will be presented: Adaptation strategy options for

sustainable agricultural production and resources management (Theme 1)

Ways to enhance engineering resilience

based on extreme weather forecasting and risk assessment (Theme 2)

Locally-driven institutional and technical

capacity development methods (Theme 3)

Scientific evidence-based Climate and Ecosystem

Change Adaptation Model Contributions to Rio+20: reifying a synergy between

three treaties to demonstrate potential solutions to the pressing global issues

Contributions to MDGs: Ensure environmental

sustainability; eradicate extreme poverty etc. Capacity development：Fostering capacity of various

stakeholders (community members, local technicians, government officials, NGO workers, researchers, students)

Information dissemination: “Ghana Model” for

enhancing resilience, disseminated through various channels including Education for Sustainable Development in Africa (ESDA) and UN-CECAR networks.

Theme2 Risk assessment of extreme weather hazards and development of adaptive resource management methods

ENGINEERING RESILIENCE To use existing infrastructure/ resources To educate local professionals/technical experts

Theme3 Implementing capacity development programs for local residents and professionals

SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS・TECHNICAL CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT

To strengthen governance, technical capacity To support self-help, cooperative organization, local empowerment

CECAR-Africa

As a part of global efforts to tackle

impacts of climate and ecosystem

changes, we urgently need to over-

come vulnerability of terrestrial

ecosystems in developing countries,

especially Africa.

This research program aims for three

objectives by focusing on the study

concerns the vulnerable semi-arid

region of northern Ghana where the

change impacts have been severely

felt in forms of unpredictable floods

and droughts and involves practical

research consisting of three cores:

(1) Forecast and assessment of

climate and ecosystem change

impact on agricultural production;

(2) Risk assessment of extreme

weather events and introduction

of adaptive water resource

management methods; and

(3) Planning and implementation of

capacity development programs

enabling local residents and

professionals to utilize the

assessment results derived from

(1) and (2).

The goal of this program is to combine

climate change and ecosystem

change research and to build an

integrated resilience enhancement

strategy as a “Ghana model”. This

model will be further discussed in a

wider international development and

environmental policy arena to

contribute to the global sustainable

development.

Local Knowledge,

Technology

Principal Investigator: Prof. Kazuhiko Takeuchi Deputy Executive Director, IR3S, University of Tokyo, Vice Rector, United Nations University

Social

Engineering

Climate

Modeling

EXPECTED OUTPUTS: EXPECTED OUTCOMES:

UNIV. OF TOKYO, UNIV. OF GHANA KYOTO UNIV., GHANA METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY

UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY, UNIV. FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES