Sustaining the Future. Economic, Social, and Environmental Change in Sub-Saharan Africa (UNU, 1996, 365 p.): Part 5: Environment and development in Ghana: Institutional issues on the environment and resource management with reference to Ghana: Conclusion

Sustaining the Future. Economic, Social, and Environmental Change in Sub-Saharan Africa (UNU, 1996, 365 p.)

Part 5: Environment and development in Ghana

Institutional issues on the environment and resource management with reference to Ghana

		(introduction...)
		Introduction
		Early developments
		The Stockholm Conference and after
		The Environmental Action Plan (EAP)
		Institutional problems and issues
		The implementation of the Environmental Action Plan
		Conclusion
		References

Conclusion

Ghana's current institutional arrangements for the management of resources and the environment emphasize participatory planning involving local communities and institutions, non-governmental organizations, and decentralized sectoral organizations. Technical implementation will be undertaken by the technical departments. The Environmental Protection Agency provides coordinating and monitoring functions, which is a desirable departure from the sectorally segmented approaches in the past. Already a lot of education to increase awareness of the nature of the resource and environmental problems has been undertaken with favourable indications that the new philosophy and approach will succeed in minimizing the problems.