IUCN Ghana

This publication highlights the processes, approaches and tools, successes and challenges of Ghana’s journey towards mainstreaming of gender considerations into the national REDD+ process. It provides an avenue for sharing the Ghanaian experience with stakeholders at the local, national and international levels. It also provides information for advocacy on gender issues, and highlights the importance of integrating gender issues and women’s participation into policy and decision making at both local, regional and national levels.

This Manual is first and foremost a community tool to facilitate implementation of Ghana’ s National Wildfire Management Policy. However it will also serve as an instrument for fire management trainers in communities with little experience in fire management and for consultation by professionals, students, policy makers, practitioners and communities when faced with fire related problems and incidents. It is expected that the Manual will constitute a solid base for capacity building in fire management.