Governing Climate Mobility in Ghana Project (GCM) (2019 - 2023)

Partners – DANIDA, Danish Institute for International Studies, Denmark, Forum for Social Studies, Ethiopia. 

Abstract - This project seeks to determine how differing governance contexts, national and local, affect adaptive climate mobility in Ghana and Ethiopia. It specifically examines the interplay between national and local governance on climate and migration. This is based on our recognition that government strategies and policies at the national level both frame and are mediated by local government and informal institutions, directly affecting households' management of their livelihoods, including climate change adaptation. The project seeks to rely on field data to make recommendations to government agencies and ministries on how institutional interventions and practices can be used to support adaptive climate mobility. Findings from the field studies are expected to provide insights on climate mobility practices to the Ethiopian and Ghanaian governments and to global actors. In Ghana, the study is being conducted in the Upper West region and Eastern region of Ghana by the Centre for Migration Studies.