The Director-General of the National Development Planning Commission, Dr Audrey Smock Amoah, has reaffirmed the Commission’s commitment to deepening collaboration with SIGRA to advance evidence-based, climate-resilient and gender-responsive development planning in Ghana.
Speaking during a meeting with the SIGRA team, Dr Amoah commended progress in integrating gender and climate considerations into national and sub-national planning, and stressed the importance of making planning tools available ahead of planning cycles so institutions can incorporate them into planning, budgeting and reporting.
Project Director at Cowater International, Geoffroy Groleau, noted that the partnership had delivered the review and launch of the updated Gender Toolkit, a toolkit for integrating climate change into medium-term development plans, and training for more than 30 districts across the Northern and Volta regions. “Our objective has always been to strengthen national systems rather than create parallel ones,” he said.
Gender Specialist Elham Mumuni shared findings from the project’s ongoing evaluation, noting that trained officers are transferring knowledge to other regions and districts, extending the project’s reach beyond its original intervention areas.
