The Ghana Landscape Restoration and Small-Scale Mining Project is a 6-year programme being implemented in Twenty-six rural districts in the northern savannah, transitional and high forest zones.
The core objective of the GLRSSMP is to strengthen integrated landscape management, formalization of artisanal small-scale mining and increase benefits to communities in the targeted degraded savannah and cocoa forest areas. The project is being implemented through the following components:
- Institutional strengthening of governance and partnerships for participatory landscape management;
- Regulatory strengthening and formalization of artisanal small-scale mining;
- Sustainable crop and forest landscape management;
- Monitoring of Project and Knowledge Management; and
- Contingency Emergency response.
A total area of 130.9 hectares was reported.