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The Ghana Model for Resilience Enhancement in Semiarid Ghana: Conceptualization and Social Implementation

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Many government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and academic and research institutions have over the past two decades conducted studies and implemented actions aimed at developing frameworks, models, and tools to assess the resilience to climate and ecosystem changes of vulnerable communities. However, actions and studies encompassing empirical field tests of the assessment instruments are relatively few. This chapter reports the outcomes of an empirically applied resilience assessment framework, hereafter referred to as the “Ghana Model,” which was initiated as part of the “Enhancing Resilience to Climate and Ecosystem Changes in Semi-Arid Africa: An Integrated Approach (CECAR-Africa)” project, implemented in Ghana’s semiarid ecosystem. The chapter provides a concise description of the “Ghana Model” as an integrated resilience assessment framework as underpinned by seven principles while highlighting the concrete actions and steps taken in operationalizing it. As a clinically valid approach for resilience assessment, the Ghana Model provides valuable evidence to aid decision and policymakers in Ghana in designing and implementing adaptation strategies for climate change in vulnerable communities and households. As a resilience assessment template, it can be applied in other ecosystems within other sub-Saharan African countries as well as other developing economies. The Ghana Model can enrich ongoing discourse on global sustainability as well as provide relevant output toward the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals.

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  1. United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), Tokyo, Japan

    Osamu Saito & Shoyama Kikuko

  2. The University of Tokyo, Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science, Tokyo, Japan

    Yaw Agyeman Boafo

  3. Faculty of Planning and Land Management, University for Development Studies, Wa, Ghana

    Godfred Seidu Jasaw

  4. Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study (UTIAS), Tokyo, Japan

    Effah Kwabena Antwi & Kazuhiko Takeuchi

  5. Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Kanagawa, Japan

    Kazuhiko Takeuchi

  6. University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

    Gordana Kranjac-Berisavljevic

  7. Department of Agribusiness Management and Finance, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

    Richard Wilfred Nartey Yeboah

  8. University for Development Studies, Nyankpala Campus, Nyankpala, Ghana

    Francis Obeng

  9. Department of Geography and Resource Development, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana

    Edwin A. Gyasi

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Appendix: List of CECAR-Africa project peer-reviewed publications

Appendix: List of CECAR-Africa project peer-reviewed publications

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Year of publication

Peer-reviewed articles (jointly published by researchers and scientists from Japan and Ghana)

1

2016

Yaw Agyeman Boafo, Osamu Saito, Godfred Seidu Jasaw, Kei Otsuki, Kazuhiko Takeuchi, Provisioning ecosystem services-sharing as a coping and adaptation strategy among rural communities in Ghana’s semi-arid ecosystem, Ecosystem Services, Volume 19, June 2016, Pages 92–102

2

2016

Mensah, R., Antwi, E.K., Attua, E.M., Chimsah, F.A., Boakye-Danquah, J., Sackey. I. Biodiversity of Woody Species and their Utilization in a Savannah Ecological zone of Northern Ghana. Journal of Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences, 2016, Vol 8 (3), 22–45.

3

2015

Antwi, E.K., Boakye-Danquah, J., Owusu, A.B., Boafo, Y. A., Mensah, R., Apronti, T.P. Community Vulnerability Assessment Index for Flood Prone Savannah Agro-Ecological Zone: A Case Study of Wa West District, Ghana. Weather and Climate Extremes, 2015, Vol 10 (2) 56–69.

4

2015

Subhajyoti Samaddar, F. K. Obeng, Z. Romanus, Muneta Yokomatsu and Hirohiko Ishikawa: What constitutes an effective community participation in disaster risk management? Voices from the fields of Ghana, The 6th Conference of the International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (TIFAC – IDRiM Conference) on “Disaster Risk Reduction: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Growth” New Delhi, India, October 28–30, 2015.

5

2015

Boafo Yaw Agyeman, Saito Osamu, Kato Sadahisa, Kamiyama Chiho, Takeuchi Kazuhiko & Nakahara Miri. 2015. The role of traditional ecological knowledge in ecosystem services management: the case of four rural communities in Northern Ghana. International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management. vol. 12 (1–2), pp.24–38.

6

2015

Apronti, P.T.; Osamu, S.; Otsuki, K.; Kranjac-Berisavljevic, G. Education for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR): Linking Theory with Practice in Ghana’s Basic Schools. Sustainability 2015, 7, 9160–9186.

7

2015

Jasaw, G.S., Saito, O. and Takeuchi, K.: Shea (Vitellaria paradoxa) Butter Production and Resource Use by Urban and Rural Processors in Northern Ghana, Sustainability, 2015, 7, 3592–3614

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2015

Subhajyoti Samaddar, Muneta Yokomatsu, Togbiga Dzivenu, Martin Oteng-Ababio, Mujeeb Rahaman Adams, Frederick Dayour and Hirohiko Ishikawa (2015). Evaluating effective public participation in disaster management and climate change adaptation: insights from northern Ghana through a user-based approach. Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy, 6 (1), pp. 117–143.

9

2015

Shaibu Abdul-Ganiyu, Benjamin Osei-Mensah, Thomas A. Apusiga, Hirohiko Ishikawa, Gordana Kranjac-Berisavljevic, 2015: Effects of Different Planting Distance on Soil moisture content and Yield of Maize (Zea mays L.) in Tolon District of Northern Region, Ghana, Greener Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 5(7), 265–277.

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2014

Antwi, E.K., Otsuki, K., Saito, O., Obeng, F.K., Gyekye, K.A., Boakye-Danquah, J., Boafo, Y.A., Kusakari, Y., Yiran, G.A.B., Owusu, A.B., Asubonteng, K.O., Dzivenu, T., Avornyo, V.K., Abagale, F.K., Jasaw, G.S., Lolig, V., Ganiyu, S., Donkoh, S.A., Yeboah, R., Kranjac-Berisavljevic, G., Gyasi, E.A., Minia, Z., Ayuk, E., Matsuda, H., Ishikawa, H., Ito, O., and Takeuchi, K.: Developing a Community-Based Resilience Assessment Model with Reference to Northern Ghana. Journal of Integrated Disaster Risk Management, 2014, Vol. 4, Issue 1, pp. 73–92

11

2014

Antwi, E.K., Boakye-Danquah, J., Boahen, A.S., Yiran, G., Seyram, K.L., Awere, G.K., Abagale, F.K., Asubonteng, K.O., Attua, M.E., and Owusu, A.B.: Land Use and Landscape Structural Changes in the Ecoregions of Ghana, Journal of Disaster Research, 2014, Vol. 9 No. 4, pp. 452–467

12

2014

Avornyo, V.K., Ito, O., Kranjac-Berisavljevic, G., Saito, O., and Takeuchi, K.: Cropping Systems in Some Drought-Prone Communities of the Northern Region of Ghana: Factors Affecting the Introduction of Rice, Journal of Disaster Research, 2014, Vol. 9 No. 4, pp. 475–483

13

2014

Boafo, Y.A., Saito, O., and Takeuchi, K.: Provisioning Ecosystem Services in Rural Savanna Landscapes of Northern Ghana: An Assessment of Supply, Utilization, and Drivers of Change. Journal of Disaster Research, 2014, Vol. 9 No. 4, pp. 501–515

14

2014

Boakye-Danquah, J., Antwi, E.K., Saito, O., Abekoe, M.K., and Takeuchi, K.: Impact of Farm Management Practices and Agricultural Land Use on Soil Organic Carbon Storage Potential in the Savannah Ecological Zone of Northern Ghana, Journal of Disaster Research, 2014, Vol. 9 No. 4, pp. 484–500

15

2014

Kusakari, Y., Asubonteng, K.O., Jasaw, G.S., Dayour, F., Dzivenu, T., Lolig, V., Donkoh, S.A., Obeng, F.K., Gandaa, B., and Kranjac-Berisavljevic, G.: Farmer-Perceived Effects of Climate Change on Livelihoods in Wa West District, Upper West Region of Ghana, Journal of Disaster Research, 2014, Vol. 9 No. 4, pp. 516–528

16

2014

Lolig, V., Donkoh, S.A., Obeng, F.K., Kodwo, A.I.G., Jasaw, G.S., Kusakari, Y., Asubonteng, K.O., Gandaa, B., Dayour, F., Dzivenu, T., and Kranjac-Berisavljevic, G.: Households’ Coping Strategies in Drought- and Flood-Prone Communities in Northern Ghana, Journal of Disaster Research, 2014, Vol. 9 No. 4, pp. 542–553

17

2014

Mohan, G., Matsuda, H., Donkoh, S. A., Lolig, D. V., and Abbeam, G. D.: Effects of Research and Development Expenditure and Climate Variability on Agricultural Productivity Growth in Ghana, Journal of Disaster Research, 2014, Vol. 9 No. 4, pp. 443–451

18

2014

Otsuki, K., Jasaw, G.S., and Lolig, V.: Framing Community Resilience through Mobility and Gender, Journal of Disaster Research, 2014, Vol. 9 No. 4, pp. 554–562

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2014

Samaddar, S., Yokomatsu, M., Dzivenu, T., Oteng-Abadio, M., Adams, M.R., Dayour, F., and Ishikawa, H.: Assessing Rural Communities Concerns for Improved Climate Change Adaptation Strategies in Northern Ghana, 2014, Journal of Disaster Research, Vol. 9 No. 4, pp. 529–541

20

2014

Sawai, N., Kobayahsi, K., Apip, Takara, K., Ishikawa, H., Yokomatsu, M., Samaddar, S., Juati, A.-N., and Kranjac-Berisavljevic, G.: Impact of Climate Change on River Flows in the Black Volta River, Journal of Disaster Research, Journal of Disaster Research, 2014, Vol. 9 No. 4, pp. 432–442

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Saito, O. et al. (2018). The Ghana Model for Resilience Enhancement in Semiarid Ghana: Conceptualization and Social Implementation. In: Saito, O., Kranjac-Berisavljevic, G., Takeuchi, K., A. Gyasi, E. (eds) Strategies for Building Resilience against Climate and Ecosystem Changes in Sub-Saharan Africa. Science for Sustainable Societies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4796-1_2

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