Cape Coast, Ghana
The planned work in Cape Coast is based on natural asset mapping and stakeholder engagements. Key priority natural assets will be mapped and socio-economic assessments undertaken, alongside in-depth consultations with various departments in the City Administration and other stakeholders.
Milestones
- Online capacity building:
- Participated in the facilitated online course on Learn with ICLEI Africa: Planning with Nature for Improved Service Delivery
- Learning Lab 1:
- Introduction to ICLEI and the UNA programme
- Human rights based approach training 1
- Understanding city needs
- Sharing process and methodology to be undertaken in UNA mapping and the socio-economic assessments
- Identification of potential advisory board members
- Identification of city needs and priorities
- In-depth city research:
- Worked with researchers/local consultants from the University of Cape Coast to undertake a socio-economic survey covering over 1000 households that highlighted aspects of ownership, decision making, access and perceptions and behaviours relating to urban natural assets in Ghana
- Spatial mapping of UNA in CCMA, including current threats and future trajectory
- Summary reports and maps produced, signed off by city and ICLEI Africa
- Development of Climate Change Risk models and baseline climate Risk Narratives to enhance climate change adaptation mainstreaming at local level
- Assessment of the human rights landscape, including how rights are articulated both in legislation and in communities
- Worked with researchers/local consultants from the University of Cape Coast to undertake a socio-economic survey covering over 1000 households that highlighted aspects of ownership, decision making, access and perceptions and behaviours relating to urban natural assets in Ghana
- Learning Lab 2:
- Human rights and gender based approach training 2
- Capacity building on integrating nature into urban planning to build resilience
- Participants were involved in exploring institutional mapping & engagement
- Understanding socio-economic mapping and drivers
- Understanding climate risk projections for city and co-developing climate risk narratives for the city in line with city policies and priorities
- A deeper understanding of the steps towards finding sustainable financing solutions
- City officials participated in RISE Africa sessions:
- Learning Lab 3:
- 50% women representation in Learning Labs as well as youth and traditional leadership representation
- Undertook activities through a rights based lens that gave new insight into how cultures, traditions entrench existing power structures that continue to exclude marginalized peoples from decision making fora
- Mapping and Human Rights Based Approach activity undertaken to enable participants spatialize rights in the areas around them
- Explored blue green frameworks as a tool to encourage participatory planning to mainstream nature based solutions
- Development of communications products to help build capacity on urban natural assets and human rights:
- Illustrated map of Urban Natural Assets
- Socioeconomic Snapshot of CCMA
- City to City exchange:
- Participated in virtual city to city exchange with 14 cities represented.
- Learning Lab 4:
- Human rights and gender based approach training 4
- Participated in a Photovoice participatory activity, capturing photographs of urban natural assets
- Youth Day: school children from local schools brought together to draw their imagined futures
- Illustrated maps and communication products handed over to the city and communities including socio-economic report in hardcopy
- Financing for nature:
- Finance survey being conducted to support the local metropolitan assembly to develop concept notes to leverage on funding.
- CCMA becomes CWN signatory and ICLEI Africa member
