1. AAP GHANA EVIDENCE BASED DECISION AND POLICY MAKING AAP Ghana Team Nov 15 2012

2. OUTLINE General Approach Lessons Learned Deliverables Sustainability Conclusions

3. General Approah Generate the relevant information and data Focus on and package the risks, opportunities and benefits Communicate strategically Ultimately to Mainstream- High level Decisions-Policy formulation, planning, budgeting and implementation and Monitoring and Evaluation

4. NATIONAL SECTOR DISTRIC T PoliPoli Climate change mainstreaming Policy formulation planning Budgeting and implementation Monitoring and Evaluation LEVELS OF MAINSTREAMING Application

5. DELIVERABLES

6. A Guidebook on how to Integrate Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction into National Development Planning and Budgeting Processes Sector Scoping and Impact Assessments- Economic Modeling to determine costs and benefits of Climate change- Majot Inputs into the National Climate Change Policy Achievement Sheet Indicator on Climate Change into District Budgeting Policy Advisory series on 17 different topics

9. FUTURE CLIMATE PROJECTIONS

10. INTERVENTION IN PILOT DISTRICTS

11. LESSSONS LEARNED

12. High level interactions Minister for Environment actively involved in inviting participants Follow up by a very senior person Theory U Process, Drama, Story Telling, Proverbs Working with and not for Decision /Policy makers yields better results than otherwise. Council of State, Parliamentarians, Ministers of State and Regional Ministers, District Chief Executives

13. Working with High Level Decision/Policy Makers

14. District Chief Executive signing a Commitment Note

15. SUSTAINABILITY

16. Exit/Sustainability Strategy T raining of Trainers on Economic Analyses and Climate Change Community of Practice Follow up and regularise High level-working key influential persons from Government, business, Chiefs, Parliament, NGO, Chiefs etc Lessons learnt from Pilot districts and Indicator into District Budgeting Meet with all major stakeholders and integrate into their annual work plans Implementation Schedule, track with indicators for the next 5 years

17. Conclusion The Best way to predict the future is to create it-Theory U Process continue to work with Decision/policy makers, technocrats generate the information, determine and pull the future in reality

18. Thanks very much