The key components of the roadmap included the Preliminary review of the existing IWRM Plans, obtain the relevant data on Pra and Tano basins from the 2021 Population and Housing Census Data undertaken by Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), re-develop the Pra and Tano Basins Maps, taking into account the newly created districts, demography, land-use/cover change and newly granted water use permits in the basins, re-run the Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP) tool for water allocation in the basins, and hold a 3-day residential workshop with teams from the Basins to harmonize perspectives towards finalizing the IWRM Plans.
The WRC/CWP-Ghana team has implemented actions towards review of the Pra and Tano Basins IWRM Plans. This was premised on several (both formal and informal) meetings held to define a roadmap and to consolidate the approach to implement agreed activities. The IWRM Plans have similar structures, thus enabling joint discussions of the related issues.
During the residential meeting at Dodowa, participants held break-out sessions for the respective basins' team, working simultaneously on chapters 3 and 4 of the IWRM Plans. The chapter 3 involved WEAP modelling where the teams organized data into relevant and usable formats. The chapter 4 dealt with the outputs of the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) results obtained from the stakeholder consultations in the basins.
The review of the Pra and Tano Basins IWRM Plans is underway towards producing the draft revised Plans. Provisional Census data have been used to compute figures for the IWRM Plans. The planning stage took into account involvement of Officers in charge of the Basins. However, implementation saw the need to include their assistants as well. As a result, WRC made provision for their participation in the residential meeting at Forest Hotel, Dodowa.
At Dodowa, revision of chapters 1, 5 and 6 of both Pra and Tano Basins IWRM Plans were completed, awaiting completion of the chapters 2, 3, and 4. The responsible technicians are working to complete these chapters by end of January 2022.
