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Participatory Land
Use Planning and awareness raising In Ghana |
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1:250,000 scale (5x vertical exaggeration)
Participatory 3D Model of Northern Ghana: A tool for
Climate Change, Food Security and Sustainable
Development Planning.
(January, 2011).
Note:
The model measuring 1.9 m x 1.5 m (112,440 km2 on the
ground)
has been the 1st Participatory 3D Model
constructed in Ghana.
The model has been manufactured for
regional flooding, food security and climate change
planning. This to enhance a
timely and conscious involvement of development agents
and communities in the design and implementation of
interventions involving them; and to develop sustainable
mechanisms and systems for enhancing the communication,
collaboration and linkages between development
organisations, governmental institutions and
communities.
Regional Directors of Agriculture,
District Directors of Agriculture, Metropolitan
Assembly, Representatives Governmental and
Non-governmental Organisations, Farmer Groups attended the exercise.
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Recommended readings:
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Method/tools:
P3DM
and GIS |
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Details on the exercise:
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Highest elevation on model:3000 m a.s.l. |
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Lowest
elevation on model:
259 m a.s.l.
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Contour
interval: 50 m |
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Tips for practitioners
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Process documentation
[ PDF: 0.4 MB
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To read, you need Adobe Acrobat. |
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Image courtesy of
Ernest Dwamena © / 20119 |
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Image courtesy of
Ernest Dwamena © / 2011 |
Image courtesy of
Ernest Dwamena © / 20119 |
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Image courtesy of
Ernest Dwamena © / 2011 |
Image courtesy of
Ernest Dwamena © / 2011 |
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Image courtesy of
Ernest Dwamena © / 2011 |
Image courtesy of
Ernest Dwamena © / 2011 |
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3 Dimensional Model map of Northern Half
of Ghana- 1:250,000 (Designed for regional flooding,
food security and climate change planning) by Romeo
Banaynal and Ernest Dwamena.
The climate has changed; droughts,
floods, erratic and unpredictable weather conditions
continue to threaten the livelihoods of people in Ghana
especially in the Northern sector. It is unprecedentedly
washing away communities, destroying biodiversity and
natural ecosystems. It is therefore necessary for the
cooperation and active participation of all those
concerned to ensure the sustainable management of our
environment and natural resources.
Since 2007 most communities within the
catchment of the Volta river basin have experienced
annual flooding but no permanent intervention has been
put in place yet. From December 2006 to June 2007,
Northern Ghana experienced long dry conditions and soon
after was hit by heavy rains which resulted in floods
killing 20 people and leaving 260,000 homeless (OCHA,
2007). Most of the people who were affected in the
floods were poor farmers, who after losingtheir farms
and other properties suffered from the aftermath of the
floods, a contaminated environment and contaminated
water.
Farmers within the catchments of the
Volta river basin have began recording a drop in yield
of 30%, a value less than the crop potential yield (CPWF,
2007). This confirms the DFID (2004) and Nhemechena et
al. (2007) reports that climate conditions will increase
with frequency and intensity of extreme weather
conditions in Africa resulting in food and water
insecurity.
This has turned into an annual phenomenon
but so far most interventions made to tackle this menace
have been a post-disaster relief. Attempts to relocated
affected communities have also proved futile as
communities are just reluctant to move anywhere. A more
holistic approach is therefore needed to effectively
manage this situation.
A community participatory 3-dimensional
modelling is a powerful community-based communication,
research and planning tool that give stakeholders, both
literate and illiterates, rich and poor, professional
and non-professional, a common platform to make informed
decisions on how best to manage their environment and
resources sustainably. |
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Contacts:
Romeo Banaynal, Ernest Dwamena:
Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO), c/o FBO Desk, Regional
Agricultural Development Unit, Ministry of Food and
Agriculture, P. O. Box 14, Tamale, Email:
ernie.dwamena@yahoo.co.uk, Tel: 00233 - (0) 244 97
33 66
Dr Joseph Faalong, Regional Agricultural
Development Unit, Ministry of Food and Agriculture, P.
O. Box 14, Tamale |
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The exercise has been made possible by the
coordinated effort and funding by the Ministry of
Food and Agriculture (MoFA), Voluntary Service
Overseas (VSO)
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