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Ahafo

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North East

Ashanti

Upper West

Northern

Bono East

Western North

Bono

Western

Ghana

18000 improved instiutional/commercial biomass cookstoves by 2030

3000000 improved domestic biomass cookstoves by 2030

12 MWp from mini/micro-grids by 2030 (300 units)

150.03 MWp from small/medium hydro plants by 2030

100000 units of briquetting/pelleting by 2030

1840123 units of local charcoal demand by 2030

increase woodlot cultivation to 428000 ha by 2030

increase domestic biogas units to 200 by 2030

increase instiutional biogas units to 500 by 2030

increase agricultural/industrial organic waste biogas units to 200 by 2030

increase waste-to-energy utility scale to 50.1 MWp by 2030

increase biomass utility scale to 72 MWp by 2030

increase number of wind irrigation/water pumping units to 100 by 2030

increase standalone wind systems to 2 MWp by 2030

increase wind utility scale to 325 MWp by 2030

increase number of solar water heaters to 135000 by 2030

increase number of solar crop dryers to 700 by 2030

increase solar irrigation to 48.8 MWp by 2030 (46150 units)

increase solar powered streetlighting to 25 MWp by 2030

increase standalone solar PV to 20 MWp by 2030

increase distributed solar PV to 200 MWp by 2030

increase solar utility scale to 447.5 MWp by 2030

increase proportion of renewables in national energy feneration mix to 1363.63 MW by 2030

10 percent of installed power capacity to be renewables by 2028, in comparison to 1% in 2019

an increase to about 5,000 hectares, restored or rehabilitated degraded forest, mining areas, dry and wet lands within forest reserves.

a 57.6MTCO2e (million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent) reduction in greenhouse gas emissions;

50% electricity consumption reduction in military and police barracks, residential halls, and hostels of public tertiary institutions by 2015

5,000 GWH saved, then 8,000 GWH by 2015, 2020 against a 2006 baseline

50% reduction urban household energy intensity by 2020 against a 2006 baseline

1:1 fuel consumption per GDP growth by 2020

1.5:1 electricity intensity in Residential and Commercial sectors by 2020

30% renewable rural electrification  by 2020

15% rural electrification by renewables by 2015, then 30% by 2020

1% solar water heater energy in hotels, restaurants, and kitchens by 2015, then 5% by 2020

2% biodiesel in agriculture by 2015, then 10% by 2020

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This project aims to boost climate resilience for smallholder farmers in northern Ghana by enhancing food security, strengthening the rural economy, and promoting sustainable livelihoods through climate-resilient agriculture, water management, landscape restoration, and resilient infrastructure.

Smallholder farmers in northern Ghana, where 80 per cent of the workforce relies on rain-fed subsistence agriculture, are increasingly exposed to risks arising from climate variability. Prolonged dry seasons, extreme rainfall, rising temperatures, and unpredictable weather patterns contribute to food insecurity, water scarcity, crop losses, and infrastructure damage. These climatic impacts jeopardise rural livelihoods, ecosystems, and community resilience in one of Ghana's most vulnerable regions.

Key activities of this project include strengthening climate information services, promoting and implementing climate-resilient agricultural practices, restoring degraded landscapes to reduce vulnerability to droughts and floods, facilitating smallholder farmers' access to finance, and enhancing local knowledge and awareness of climate risks and adaptive practices to support long-term adoption.

Poor land management, particularly deforestation for agriculture, contributes significantly to carbon emissions, worsening global warming and diminishing land productivity. While sustainable land management (SLM) practices offer climate adaptation and mitigation benefits, they face adoption barriers such as limited financing, high investment risks, low technical capacity, and poor supply chain traceability. Addressing and overcoming these barriers is key to reversing land degradation and promoting sustainable development.

The Mirova Sustainable Land Fund 2 (MSLF2) aims to tackle the interconnected challenges of land degradation and climate change by investing in SLM projects in selected countries (Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Malaysia, Morocco, Peru, and the Philippines). It supports reversing land degradation by investing in practices in agroforestry, regenerative agriculture, and sustainable forestry. These approaches will enhance soil health, increase biodiversity, and improve carbon sequestration, making agriculture and forestry more resilient to climate variability and extreme weather events.

Employing a blended finance structure, MSLF2 combines public and private capital to mitigate risks and attract private investment in SLM projects.  The fund will offer flexible financing options to small- and medium-sized enterprises and provide technical assistance to help investee companies enhance their investment readiness and operational capacity.

This project was brought under the Project-Specific Assessment Approach (PSAA), an initiative to streamline and broaden access to GCF finance for new partners, countries, and technologies.

Local CSOs and CBOs in landscapes-seascapes around the world access grant financing and technical assistance, including capacity development and knowledge sharing to maintain and enhance their socio-ecological resilience, well-being and socio-economic conditions for global environmental benefits.

Smallholder farmers in Africa are increasingly vulnerable to climate change. Rising temperatures, droughts, and shifting rainfall patterns threaten their livelihoods and food security. Cultivating 80 per cent of Africa's farmland, they face several challenges, including poor market access and limited inputs, which reduce agricultural productivity, crop yields, and income, further limiting their adaptive capacity.

The programme aims to enhance the climate resilience of smallholder farmers and the agriculture value chain, ultimately promoting increased productivity and food security. It will invest in venture, early and early-growth stage companies that offer bundled adaptation solutions tailored for smallholder farmers. This adaptation-focused blended-finance venture capital fund will build upon the success of ARAF I (FP078), which was anchored by GCF. The Technical Assistance Facility will also support investee companies and smallholder farmers in climate resilience, integrating gender considerations, measuring impact and advancing business development.  

The programme enables smallholder farmers to adopt climate-resilient agricultural practices and access adaptation funding while also providing early-stage capital for innovative climate solutions, business models and technologies to early-stage ventures and micro, small, medium-sized enterprises (MSME).

GCF’s USD 30 million equity contribution will be matched by USD 90 million equity co-financing towards a USD 120 million fund. GCF will also provide USD 4 million in non-reimbursable grant to a USD 12 million Technical Assistance facility.

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