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    Safe drinking water: who is willing to pay the price?

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2012
    This briefing, the second issue of the Evidence Matters series, distills policy relevant evidence from a recent 3ie systematic review ‘Willingness to pay for cleaner water in less developed countries". The review summarises research from Bangladesh, Ghana, Kenya and Zambia. Some of the lessons learned include:
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    Institutional innovations in African smallholder carbon projects

    Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2012
    According to this report, climate funds for reducing greenhouse gas emissions can benefit small farmers and help achieve development objectives. In the detailed study of six African agricultural carbon projects, researchers found that communities are benefiting from a range of activities related to planting and managing trees on farms.
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    Progressivity of health care financing and incidence of service benefits in Ghana

    Health Policy and Planning, 2012
    The National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme was introduced in Ghana in 2004 as a pro-poor financing strategy aimed at removing financial barriers to health care and protecting all citizens from catastrophic health expenditures, which currently arise due to user fees and other direct payments.
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    Equity in financing and use of health care in Ghana, South Africa, and Tanzania: implications for paths to universal coverage

    The Lancet, 2012
    Universal coverage of health care is now receiving substantial attention, but debate continues on the best mix of financing mechanisms.
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    Cocoa and fertilizers in West-Africa

    IDH Sustainable Trade Initiative, 2012
    Fertilizer use on degraded farms with mature trees has shown a clear positive impact on the productivity of cocoa. This is the main conclusion from this pilot study on the impact of fertilizer, based on Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire.The author argues that:
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    Youth vulnerabilities and adaptation: Exploring the impact of macro-level shocks on youth: 3F (food, fuel, financial) crisis and climate change in Ghana, Mozambique and Vietnam

    Overseas Development Institute, 2011
    The main component of the study, for which research was undertaken from July 2010 to February 2011, focused on understanding how the 3F crisis impacted on different areas of young people’s lives and development, mediated through macro- and meso-level processes at the national level.
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    Climate Change Financing and Aid Effectiveness: Ghana Case Study

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2011
    This report places climate change financing within the wider development context, and in particular in relation to the Aid Effectiveness principles articulated in the Paris Declaration (PD) and the Accra Agenda for Action (AAA). It makes no judgement on whether the external finance is classified as Official Development Assistance or not.
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    Synergies between REDD+ and adaptive capacity to climate change at the local level – a Ghana case study

    REDD-net, 2012
    This case study uses the Local Adaptive Capacity (LAC) framework developed by the African Climate Change Resilience Alliance (ACCRA) to compare how REDD+ strategy opinions may impact LAC.
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    Ghana’s Second National Communication to the UNFCCC

    2011
    The preparation of the Second National Communication (SNC) is in furtherance to meeting its obligation under the UNFCCC. The SNC is meant to build on, update and report additional information subsequent to the Initial National Communication (INC) and facilitated by the sets of guidelines contained in the annex to decision 17/CP.8.
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    Policy Brief: Low carbon growth for Ghana

    ECN, 2010
    Low carbon growth seeks to promote economic development while keeping emissions low, or lower. Although Ghana is not responsible for the greenhouse effect, low carbon growth can be beneficial to Ghana. In the short term, pursuing low carbon growth helps identify options that have direct economic and development benefits and can open access to international climate support.

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