Activity 2.2 Land Use Management at the District Scale

23 Figure 13: Map of the Amanzure Lagoon and associated wetlands in the Jomoro and Ellembelle Districts

2.2.2 Activity 2.2 Land Use Management at the District Scale

While focusing efforts on the three focal areas, it is essential to also involve the District Chief Executives and District planners in the activities and ensure that they are seen as examples of an approach to land use management that should be applied throughout each coastal district. Thus, the H İn Mpoano Initiative is investing in a Geographic Information System GIS based at University of Cape Coast UCC to provide the coastal districts with the fundamental mapping and data processing tools needed for such planning. The districts will be provided with training in GIS and map production as well as providing the District planners with computers, appropriate software and internet access and basic equipment. The knowledge and tools will equip the districts in generating resource maps for planning and other purposes. Also a pilot web-based knowledge management system that provides access to the information gathered will be developed together with other partners. This will be supplemented by training workshops associated with the semi-annual ME events Component 5. To date, representatives of the six District-level planning units have visited both the ongoing process in the Shama District and the UCC Geography and Regional Planning Department in order to prepare the process for spatial planning in their respective Districts. The Planner for Shama District has been trained at the University of Rhode Island in March 2011 to prepare him for his role in completing the visioning and spatial planning process for Shama. This training focused on mediation and negotiation relative to competing land uses among stakeholders and consensus building. The outcome of the Shama process 24 will inform the training schedules of the other planners who will also be involved in the Cape Three Points and Amansuri exercises. In March 2011, CRC assisted the LOGODEP to develop and hold a workshop on District level spatial planning that brought together representatives from the Shama District as well as four other Districts in the Western Region. In attendance were the other institutions that will also be supporting spatial planning such as the Town Country Planning Department, the Jubilee Oil and Gas Partners, and the Norwegian government NORAD support program for the Ministry of Environment Science and Technology MEST for the regional planning framework. A special sub-group was established for ensuring collaboration on spatial planning for the six coastal districts. Unfortunately, the Jubilee Partners program, run by Tullow Oil and the Korean government support to the Ahanta West District, appears to want to develop spatial planning on their own with very little consultative process.

2.2.3 Activity 2.3 Enhancing Livelihoods and Social Conditions