Ghana National Implementation Plan for the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (1992 Water Convention).

Ghana as a transboundary downstream state, took the opportunity to strengthen technical and institutional cooperation with its co-riparians to ensure a good basis for building national capacity for water governance by becoming a party to the 1992 UNECE Water Convention and the 1997 UN Watercourses Convention. This Implementation Plan provides for a step by step process for implementation of the Convention considering the technical, economic and financial capacities of the country, physical and governance framework with specific focus on transboundary management. These measures focus on strengthening the policy, regulatory and institutional framework for managing and protection of water resources, financing and enhancing transboundary cooperation, improving the knowledge base to facilitate water resources planning, enhancing participation of all stakeholders, public awareness and education in water resources management, improving IWRM at the river basin level for water security and enhancing resilience to climate change.
The Plan consists of 5 Sections, 2 Annexes and Figure 1 on Ghana Ecological Zones and Table 1 on Planned Actions and Measures. Sections refer to Introduction (1); Socio-Economic and Physical Profile and Water Resources Situation (2);Review of Transboundary Water Governance in Ghana (3); Action Plan for Implementing the Water Convention (4); and Steps to Implementation of Planned Actions/Measures.