THE Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has organised a capacity building workshop on proposal writing in relation to Ghana Environmental Management Project (GEMP).
The workshop was aimed at equipping the participants with the requisite skills to write good proposals to source for funding from the EPA for the implementation of the GEMP.
GEMP is a five-year financing mechanism initiated by the Canadian International Development Agency and the government to implement the National Action Programme (NAP) aimed at supporting community level activities related to drought and desertification in the Guinea Savannah and Sudan Savannah zones of Ghana.
The programme is overseen by the Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology, and implemented by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The participants, including planning officers of district assemblies, departmental heads, Regional and District Environmental Management Committees and community based organisations, were taken through the seven thematic areas.
The thematic areas have been developed into a programme with a view to achieve a holistic approach to address the problem of desertification, drought and degradation.
The Upper East Regional Director of the EPA, Mrs Zenabu Wasai-King, emphasised the need for the participants to critically study the manual to reduce the time between submission of proposals for funding and the actual receipt of funding.
A Programme Officer of the EPA, Mr Isaac Acquah, said the programme would protect the environment from being degraded, especially in northern Ghana.
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