What is it about?
The study confirmed a widely held perception, with scientific evidence, that there is a disconnect between what climate change managers know and are doing in terms of adaptation and mitigation efforts and what stakeholders should know and are expected to do towards achieving functional participatory engagements in Ghana. This was evidenced by outcome of respondents’ responses on perceived level of knowledge and awareness in addressing climate change risk. Age, gender, level of education and work experience were all significant in determining the outcomes with perceived knowledge and awareness marginal gap of 28% between management (MRs) and stakeholder respondents (SRs).
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Why is it important?
There is a disconnect between what climate change managers know and are doing in terms of adaptation and mitigation efforts and what stakeholders should know and are expected to do toward achieving functional participatory engagements in Ghana. It calls for needs assessment on a governance system that will chart a new order to transform individual and household attitudes through curriculum development, awareness training, coping strategies to capacity building for members of the communities and households.
Perspectives
The essence of this research was to juxtapose perceived indigenous knowledge on scientific data that would guide decision-making toward enhancing functional public participation in CC. It is of the expectation that these findings would feed into CC-related documents that might be useful for: (1) aiding local engagements in CC adaptation processes, (2) enhancing greater stakeholder participation, (3) prescribing different levels of stakeholder participation and (4) identifying barriers to the engagement process as well as how these could be addressed.
Dr. Edward Kweku Kweku Nunoo
University of Cape Coast
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This page is a summary of: An assessment of perceived participatory climate change adaptation initiatives in Ghana, Management of Environmental Quality An International Journal, October 2020, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/meq-05-2020-0096.
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