Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) in Ghana Disclosure Notice for Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP)
November 17, 2022
Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) is a project being implement in Africa to help deliver a climate-smart African future driven by science and innovation in agriculture. It is led by the Alliance of Bioversity International and Centre for International Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and supported by a grant from the International Development Association (IDA) of the World Bank.
The Project Development Objective is to strengthen the technical, institutional, and human capacity needed to enhance transfer of climate-relevant information, decision-making tools, and technologies in support of scaling efforts in IDA-eligible countries in Africa. The project is structured into 4 major components and comprises of Component 1: Knowledge generation and sharing; Component 2: Strengthen Partnership for delivery; and Component 3: Validating Climate-Smart Agriculture Innovations through Piloting.
AICCRA-Ghana, led by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), is focused on bridging the gap between research institutes and development organizations to promote the adoption of improved technologies including digital climate advisories, for the purpose of enhancing the resilience of the country’s agriculture and food systems. AICCRA project activities in Ghana is expected to run till December 2023.
AICCRA-Ghana is also focused on testing, piloting, and validating Climate Smart Agricultural (CSA) innovations and Climate Information Services (CIS) technologies in farmers’ fields to expand the awareness and application of relevant climate adaption innovations among farmers. The AICCRA-Ghana team intends to set up CSA demonstration farms across 23 farming communities in 12 districts of the 6 regions in Ghana. The demonstration of CSA innovation and CIS technology in Ghana will be led by IITA with technical support from Council for Scientific and Industrial Research – Crop Research Institute (CSIR-CRI); Center for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI); University for Development Studies (UDS); Plant Protection Regulatory Directory (PPRSD), Esoko Company Limited and International Water Management Institute (IWMI).
The environmental and social screening exercise conducted on proposed CSA demonstration plots confirmed a range of Environmental and Social (E&S) risks, which if not mitigated, could cause harm to people and the environment. Based on these findings, this Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) is prepared to clarify (i) the measures that will be taken during the implementation of project activities to eliminate or offset adverse E&S impacts, or to reduce them to acceptable levels; and (ii) actions needed to implement these measures.
In line with the foregoing, a NOTICE is hereby served to partners and project workers that the stakeholder engagement plan is published and electronically available at the following link (IITA Website)
Lastly, we wish to indicate that the ESMP will also be disclosed at the World Bank’s information shop and website.
For further enquiries and submissions about this disclosure, please contact: AICCRA Cluster Lead: Ghislain Tepa-Yotto Email: G.Tepa-Yotto@cgiar.org Phone &WhatsApp: +229 95 78 69 88 or AICCRA Ghana Safeguard Focal Person/National Partner Coordinator: Mustapha Dalaa Email: M.Dalaa@cgiar.org; Phone: 0208882296/0243076587 This NOTICE is Issued by International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA). Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) in Ghana
For further enquiries and submissions about this disclosure, please contact: AICCRA Cluster Lead: Ghislain Tepa-Yotto Email: G.Tepa-Yotto@cgiar.org Phone &WhatsApp: +229 95 78 69 88 or AICCRA Ghana Safeguard Focal Person/National Partner Coordinator: Mustapha Dalaa Email: M.Dalaa@cgiar.org; Phone: 0208882296/0243076587 This NOTICE is Issued by International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA). Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) in Ghana
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