• Objective 1: To increase climate-smart agricultural production and productivity of 800 farmers by 30% by 2021 (200 farmers targeted for 2018, 200 farmers targeted in 2019, 500 farmers targeted in 2020and 500 target in 2021).
• Objective 2:  To increase the wealth of 1104 saving with Education group members by 2021 (276 group members targeted for 2018, 2019 each and 1104 in 2020 and 805 in 2021).
• Objective 3: To support 30 communities to adopt innovative and sustainable environmental and land conservation practices to reduce climate Change risks by 2021 (8 communities targeted for 2018, 10 in 2019 and 10 communities in 2020 and 10 communities in 2021).

Pillar 1: Food security and livelihoods. This component seeks to increase beneficiary communities’ resilience and adaptations to climate change impacts through interventions/adaptation such as climate-smart agriculture or improve farming techniques to protect food growing such as planting drought-resistant and short-season varieties, changing agricultural practices, crop diversification, practices to enhance soil moisture retention in fields, minimal tillage, composting for fertilizer, planting dry season vegetable gardens, developing surface wells, rearing small stock  such as  guinea fowl, goats, sheep, pigs and rabbits) and actions to reduce burning of farm fields as well as increasing and diversifying livelihood security of households. 

Pillar 2:  Economic development. This pilar proposes the uses of saving services to address vulnerability to poverty due to changes in climatic conditions, which renders people of northern Ghana unable to withstand climate stresses/shocks. The two saving services will support households and communities to become less susceptible to climate change shocks and stresses. The first component comprises interventions on Savings with Education (SwE). The saving with Education program is a village savings-led model where rural poor women are supported to save regularly to enable them start micro businesses. The project provides a forum for women entrepreneurs to share their experience and to provide peer-to-peer business mentoring without the involvement of an outsider. Project officers use this opportunity to educate group members on the good agricultural practices, environment/natural resource management and health related issues. Additionally, capacities of micro-entrepreneurs are built for effective implementation of their business activities such as agro-processing businesses. In this context, business education and entrepreneurship training for microcredit recipients are key implementation strategies. Working with and through community-based women’s associations that are accustomed to operating businesses, NGCRP will strengthen business entrepreneurs’ capacity to provide ongoing support to their members who have started their own businesses as well as strengthening their capacities and sustainability by linking them to creditable formal financial institutions such as banks.

Pillar 3: Environment: This pillar aims at increasing practices which will promote the mitigation of climate change and variability on the environment as well as reduces community exposures to natural hazards such as floods, droughts and erosions. Under this pillar, the project facilitates sustainable soil and water conservation and management of land and forest resources.  Additionally, the project use Agro-forestry systems (plantation of trees in cropland as well as along reserved areas and water bodies) that can provide multiple benefits including energy to rural communities with synergies between sustainable development and Climate Change mitigation such as conservation of water resources and prevention of floods. Activities such as inappropriate use of agro-chemical and other practices that pollute the environment, water bodies and impact negatively on the lives of the people, are addressed. Community education via radio and durbars and the celebration of World Environment Days to create awareness about the need for sustainable environmental management are carried out with relevant messages to protecting the environment such as prevention of the perennial bush fire disasters. 

• To provide input support to farmers to increase production and productivity
• Build and strengthen capacity of local farmers to increase agricultural productivity and awareness of climate issues. 
• Build and strengthen capacity of Climate Resilience Volunteers in new farming technologies in order to enhance their support for farmers
• Create awareness on climate change and its adaptation strategies 
• Promote cultivation of crops and rearing of animals adapted to harsh climatic conditions    
• Train farmers to promote post-harvest technologies to minimize losses of farm produce.

• Formation of new Saving with Education Groups among crop farmers (agro input credit);  small ruminant farmers,  and Micro credit participants 
• Provision of continuous support to existing saving groups
• Education of group members on GAP and health related issues
• Build capacity of groups on saving and group management
• Linking with formal financial institutions
• Programme participant of all the interventions will be sensitize on the benefits of savings with education and facilitated to form or join groups. The target is to form about 10 groups from the programme participants

1. Maintaining healthy forest ecosystems for resilience 
2. Raise awareness on environmental degradation
3. Building resilience for adaptation to climate change by supporting school clubs, religious bodies and communities in the planting and management of trees

1. Trained farmers who applied new technologies or management practices increased
2. Trained farmers who applied climate-smart technologies or management practices increased
3. Farmers increase their yields of targeted crop(s) 
4. Farmers increase total production of targeted animal(s)
5. Group members saving money during the cycle (12-month period) increased
6. Primary caregivers of children under 5 who are members of savings groups and report using their savings, earnings, or loans for the basic needs of children or child health/other emergencies (disaggregated by use/purpose) increased
7. Increased survival rate of trees planted

1. Percent of trained farmers who applied new technologies or management practices
2. Percent of trained farmers who applied climate-smart technologies or management practices
3. Percent of farmers who increase yields of targeted crop(s)
4. Percent of farmers who increase total production of targeted animal(s)
5. Average group member savings at end of cycle (12-month period)
6. Average group member earnings at end of cycle (12-month period)
7. Percent of households that report change in assets since joining the program
8. Percent of primary caregivers of children under 5 who are members of savings groups and report using their savings, earnings, or loans for the basic needs of children or child health/other emergencies (disaggregated by use/purpose)
9. Percent of savings group members who have started or expanded micro-businesses using loans
10. Survival Rate of trees

1. To assess the performance of the project with regards to its set objectives, indicators/outcomes
2. To assess the effectiveness and efficiency of the project activities in achieving those outcomes
3. To assess the extent, the program might have contributed to long-term effect on the beneficiaries.
4. To identify lessons learned, gaps if any and make recommendations for future consideration for the audience of this evaluation.

1. To assess whether the programs’ objectives were met
2. Learning from the steps on the way in the programs’ implementation.
   • Accountability: examine to what extent NGCRP’s activities and inputs meet the programs outputs, outcomes, goals and expectations. 
   • Learning: examine how to steer the portfolio of similar projects in future