Services

Activities

Policy Advocacy

• Consultation and policy analysis:  Consult with government and other relevant stakeholders, identify policy issues, identify key actors and institutions, analyze the policy environment, summarize policy findings, and identify options for policy change;
• Advocacy strategy: Select a policy issue, select target audiences, set policy goals, identify allies and opponents, select roles, identify key messages, and   define advocacy activities;
• Engagement with government: Work closely with the government and interested parties to develop policies that support the development and adoption of clean technologies in Ghana
• Gender issues:  Work closely with the government and interested parties to mainstream gender-sensitivity into climate technology related policies and address gender challenges to technology including providing technical training for women and coordinating presentations at schools and universities on women’s success and opportunities as well as providing early training for girls in science and technology and;
• Public-Private   Partnership:  Facilitate public-private partnerships for the development, diffusion, deployment, and transfer of existing, emerging and longer term cost-effective, cleaner and more efficient climate technologies in Ghana.

Policy Dialogues, Roundtables and Events

• Generate evidence on policy and regulatory issues by mapping the broad clean technology policy landscape and carry out surveys to gather stakeholder opinions, perceptions and knowledge;
• Organize and coordinate 1 to 3 policy roundtables per year to allow issues experts and thought leaders in the government and in climate and clean technology sector to discuss trends, frame issues, and identify information gaps, critical uncertainties, and policy challenges in a particular clean technology policy context and issues that concern a wider public;
• Organize and coordinate 1 to 3 policy events such as conferences per year to bring together various stakeholders to participate in a structured but engaging dialogue to gather evidence and secure consent on clean and climate technology process in Ghana and;
• Participate in key events that convene policy makers and other interested stakeholders in policy discussions related to entrepreneurship in the clean technology in Ghana.

Policy Assessment

• Assess clean technology policy processes in Ghana using a variety of methods such as process evaluation, benchmarking, peer reviews and case studies;
• Inform policy environment that pertain in Ghana using a variety of methods such as the analysis of secondary data (Government, NGO, Research Institutions, Universities, etc.), national-level macro and sectorial reports;
• Analyze the link between sectorial policies and their effects on development of the clean technology sector in Ghana using a variety of methods such as substantive theory and research, expert panels and categorizations of sectors according to their possible impacts on clean technology development;
• Identify the potential economic, social and environmental impacts of new clean technology policies and initiatives through a variety of methods, such as theories of change, logic models, econometric and simulation models and scenario development;
• Identify the potential costs and financial returns of new clean technology policies and initiatives through a variety of methods, such as cost benefit analysis, monetization of social impacts and monetization of environmental impacts;
• Identify the potential risks and tradeoffs of new clean technology policies and initiatives though a variety of methods such as risk assessment and multi-criteria
• Identify economic, social and environmental impacts of existing clean technology policies and initiatives using a variety of methods including indicator systems, social surveys, business and environmental surveys, analyzes of secondary source data and econometric analysis;
• Assess processes that increase or decrease the impacts of existing clean tech policies and initiatives using a variety of methods including case studies, comparative studies and peer reviews;
• Identify coherent, incoherent, conflicting and reinforcing effects of existing clean technology policies and initiatives through using a variety of methods including case studies and research at multi-sectorial levels.

Policy Research

• Undertake needs assessment on clean technology policies and practices to determine clients’ priorities;
• Develop a bank of research proposals on clean technology policy issues that are of greater interest to clients;
• Gather and record primary and secondary information on clean technology policy issues through desktop and field research to determine trends and best international practices and;
• Assess national and cross-sectorial policies to identify opportunities to promote clean technologies in Ghana using a variety of approaches such as wide-economic impact assessment methods.

Policy Dissemination

• Develop and maintain a CIC's website to inform, raise awareness, engage and promote clean technology policies and regulations;
• Publish a periodic newsletter to inform stakeholders on new updates in climate technology market in Ghana;
• Produce flyers/brochures in printed forms that will be handed out at conferences or any public events to raise awareness on key climate technology policies and regulations;
• Write regular press releases to announce important achievements on climate technology policies and regulations in Ghana, ensuring that they reach the most influential media outlets;
• Write reports, policy briefs and other documents on specific topics relating to climate technology policies and regulations in Ghana and publish them on the CIC's website to inform a wide audience;
• Develop posters on relevant or critical climate technology policy and regulation issues in Ghana, and give them to delegates who attend a poster session at a conference and;
• Prepare presentations on specific climate technology policies and regulations in Ghana and present them at various conferences at national or international level.