Sustainable Land and Water Management

The objectives are to: (a) improve sustainable land and water management practic es to reduce land degradation and enhance maintenance of biodiversity in selecte d micro-watersheds; and (b) strengthen spatial planning for identification of li nked watershed investments in the Northern Savannah region of Ghana.The Project Development Objective is to expand the area under sustainable land and water management practices in selected watersheds The proposed AF is sought to finance implementation on a larger geographic scale and expanding the range of SLWM interventions to other ecosystems through the following activities: (i) scaling-up the area under sustainable land and water management interventions from the original target area of 2,000 ha to an expanded area of 6,000 ha; (ii) scaling-up biodiversity management in Western Wildlife Corridor by expanding establishment of Community Resource Management Areas from two to four sites; and (iii) adding sustainable forest management (SFM) activities in eight gazetted Forest Reserves (FR) with the area of 172,224 ha . The activities are based on the landscape approach in Upper Ghana’s savanna, which is characterized by vulnerability, low climate resilience, and high poverty. They will contribute to carbon sequestration and increased resilience of the beneficiary communities to climatic variability. The AF will tackle environmental degradation, while enhancing natural resource-based livelihoods in project communities and surrounding areas, thus contributing to the Twin Goals of the World Bank Group of eliminating extreme poverty by 2030 and boosting shared prosperity.