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Item Labour intensive public works and agricultural off-season employment: A case study of Ghana social opportunity programme(University of Ghana, 2015-04-17) Osei-Akoto, I.; Bawakyillenuo, S.; Owusu, G.; Offei, E.L.The Labour Intensive Public Works (LlPW) of the Ghana Social Opportunities Project (GSOP) was initiated by the Government of Ghana to provide targeted rural poor households access to local employment and income-earning opportunities during agricultural off-seasons. The key objectives of the programme were to protect households and communities against external shocks and; rehabilitate and improve productive and social infrastructure such as roads, dams and schools. The initiative was to mainly mitigate the effects of extreme poverty, particularly during agriculture off-seasons. This study assessed the impact of the L1PW project on labour force participation and employment generation during the off season in agriculture in Ghana. Panel data from two rounds of survey were used for this analysis and propensity score matching technique was used for the estimation of the average treatment effect. The results show that labour force participation increased by 7% in the lean season among beneficiary households relative to the non-beneficiaries. Paid employment among beneficiary households increased by 9.4% relative to the non-beneficiary households and the number of days spent in a week on paid work by beneficiary households increased by 30.8%. The average income received by L1PW beneficiary households from paid work was GHC 48.57 higher than the amount received by non-beneficiary households. The paper shares interesting results on sustainability of such innovative programmes that seek to lessen the burden of unemployment or under-employment in deprived communities during the lean agricultural season while creating vital infrastructure for eco nomic growthItem The role of social protection interventions in enhancing climate change adaptation and mitigation: The case of LIPW component of Ghana social opportunities projects (GSOP)(University of Ghana, 2015-04-17) Bawakyillenuo, S.; Osei-Akoto, I.; Owusu, G.; Agbelie, I.S.K.The devastating effects of climate change and variability globally are incontestable, hence, the urgency for upscaling adaptation and mitigation strategies. Central to initiating and implementing robust adaptation and mitigation measures is innovative financing. While there are various climate change support projects in Ghana, much is still needed to fund adaptation and mitigation measures. Similarly, social protection intervention programmes abound in the country, many of which are aimed at reducing poverty and spatial development inequalities in targeted areas. Arguably, opportunities are embedded in many of these social protection programmes to bolster climate change adaptation and mitigation issues in the country. Using the Labour Intensive Public Works (LlPW) of the Ghana Social Opportunities Project (GSOP) as a case study, the paper examines how social protection interventions in Ghana could support both climate change adaptation and mitigation measures. Analysing the panel data from two rounds of survey on the LIPW, the results show that, paid employment among beneficiary communities increased by 9.4% relative to the non-beneficiary households. Furthermore, it was found that extreme poverty and average poverty reduced by 7% and 21% respectively in the LlPW beneficiary communities. Thus, the adaptive capacity to climate change of LIPW beneficiaries became stronger than non-beneficiaries. The analyses also reveal that the trees plantation activities of LlPW will strengthen the mitigation of climate change in the long-term through an increase in the country's carbon sinks. This interplay between social protection interventions and climate change objectives drums home the need to mainstream climate change objectives into all social protection interventions in Ghana