TY - JOUR
T1 - The “Third Sector” and Climate Change Adaptation Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa
T2 - Experience from Ghana
AU - Musah-Surugu, Issah Justice
AU - Bawole, Justice Nyigmah
AU - Ahenkan, Albert
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, International Society for Third-Sector Research and The Johns Hopkins University.
PY - 2019/4/15
Y1 - 2019/4/15
N2 - In spite of growing evidence of non-governmental organizations’ (NGOs) active participation in both bottom-up and top-down climate change policy negotiations and implementation, a research effort that focuses on the former barely exists. Grounded within the qualitative research approach, this paper contributes to the emerging climate policy literature by drawing on experiences from three purposefully selected non-state actors’ adaptation program in Ghana. The paper observes that through tripartite mechanisms—climate advocacy, direct climate service provision and local empowerment, NGOs significantly play a complementary role in building local adaptive capacities, especially among people who are already living at or close to the margins of survival. The paper again found that NGOs tacitly explore four interrelated “social tactics” (rulemaking, alliance brokerage, resource brokerage, and framing) to gain the cooperation of local actors for the implementation of adaptation interventions. In order to improve the performance and sustainability of adaptation interventions, the paper puts forward that NGOs should, among other things, harmonize their interventions to resonate with local interest and identity and also nurture capable project caretakers before community exit.
AB - In spite of growing evidence of non-governmental organizations’ (NGOs) active participation in both bottom-up and top-down climate change policy negotiations and implementation, a research effort that focuses on the former barely exists. Grounded within the qualitative research approach, this paper contributes to the emerging climate policy literature by drawing on experiences from three purposefully selected non-state actors’ adaptation program in Ghana. The paper observes that through tripartite mechanisms—climate advocacy, direct climate service provision and local empowerment, NGOs significantly play a complementary role in building local adaptive capacities, especially among people who are already living at or close to the margins of survival. The paper again found that NGOs tacitly explore four interrelated “social tactics” (rulemaking, alliance brokerage, resource brokerage, and framing) to gain the cooperation of local actors for the implementation of adaptation interventions. In order to improve the performance and sustainability of adaptation interventions, the paper puts forward that NGOs should, among other things, harmonize their interventions to resonate with local interest and identity and also nurture capable project caretakers before community exit.
KW - Adaptation
KW - Climate change
KW - Local people
KW - Non-governmental organization
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85042224817&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11266-018-9962-5
DO - 10.1007/s11266-018-9962-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85042224817
SN - 0957-8765
VL - 30
SP - 312
EP - 326
JO - Voluntas
JF - Voluntas
IS - 2
ER -