CBE in Hohoe District, Ghana (terminated)

In 2005, our second major on-site project was located in Ghana's Hohoe District. For 12 months, SDT coordinated a multi-stakeholder process that aimed at contributing to the sustainable development in the District through the creation of alternative sources of income. This was to be achieved through the improvement of the competitiveness of the District's community-based ecotourism sector.

Michael Grosspietsch and Birgit Lödige signed responsible for the development of the project. They elaborated proposals, searched for and interacted with the various project partners and led a first fact-finding mission during the summer of 2005. In early 2006, three local partners have accepted to continue to run the project on the ground, i.e. the International Centre for Enterprise & Sustainable Development, the University of Cape Coast and the Dutch development agency SNV. Other stakeholders in this public-private partnership are several private sector companies, the Ministry of Tourism, the Ghana Tourism Board, the Hohoe District Assembly, further universities, and local NGOs and development agencies.