About this area

We support communities to adapt to climate change while strengthening livelihoods and food security. Through climate-smart agriculture, natural resource management, environmental restoration, water security, sanitation, disaster risk reduction and locally led climate adaptation, we help build resilient communities capable of withstanding environmental and economic shocks.

Our work spans the whole system — from competitive, inclusive value chains that raise smallholder incomes and reduce hunger, to community-led total sanitation that improves health and dignity, delivered in partnership with UNICEF and others.

LivelihoodsIncomes raised for 10,000+ smallholders
Sanitation256 communities open-defecation-free (~83,000 people)
Policy7 assemblies passed sanitation by-laws
Projects & programmes

Our resilience & food-systems work

Research & reports

Evidence from this area

Climate & Food Systems

Fertilizer Subsidy Programme — baseline assessment

This baseline assessment examines how Ghana’s Fertilizer Subsidy Programme (FSP) is implemented in the Sissala West and Lambussie districts — how inputs…

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Stories of change

The people behind the work

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The day our community became open-defecation-free

After months of community-led work, residents celebrated the day their community was certified open-defecation-free. Building latrines, changing habits and holding one another…

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