The Cities and Infrastructure for Growth – Ghana (CIG Ghana) Programme in its first phase delivered support to two cities (Sekondi-Takoradi and Tamale) in Ghana to address climate change. This focused on urban flooding producing flood modelling work, identifying potential soft and hard infrastructure interventions and provided guidance on sources of climate finance. A key finding from this first phase was the lack of focused support for cities to address climate actions in particular for accessing finance. It also highlighted the high level of inputs required to prepare climate interventions to get to feasibility and financing stage.
Whilst nationally technical assistance can be directed to support these stages of project development it is rare that this support is provided at a city level. Therefore, the second phase of the CIG programme will seek to address this gap. A crucial next step will be to build on the technical guidance and data outputs produced in Phase 1 to support the two cities identify potential solutions and work in partnership to take this forward. Additionally, the project will replicate flood risk analysis done under Phase 1 in Phase 2 for another 1-2 towns in line with the British High Commission Ghana’s renewed focus on Northern Ghana and respond to the original ask of Government of Ghana under Phase 1 to do more work in the North.
