The country developed a draft Ghana Sustainable Land Management Investment Framework (GSIF), which underwent preliminary review in November 2009. Several activities informed the development of the GSIF. These include literature reviews, field consultations with relevant stakeholders and conducting four analytical studies on: Land degradation assessment using Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Sustainable Land Management (SLM) Technologies Assessment, Baseline Studies; and Resource Mobilisation, in all the six ecological zones of Ghana. Institutional arrangements for the implementation of the National Action Programme (NAP) to combat desertification and drought were also established and are functional at three levels to implement the Ghana Environmental Management Project (GEMP).These same institutional arrangements were also proposed in the GSIF

Resulting from the development of the CSIF, Ghana has aligned stakeholder and resources towards the implementation of the Sustainable Land and Water Management project. In the long term, the project expected contribute to efforts directed at reducing land degradation; enhancing maintenance of biodiversity in selected micro-watersheds, and identifying potential linked watershed investments in the Northern Savannah region of Ghana

The country received further support through the Sahel and West Africa Program (SAWAP) to the tune of USD13.25M)

Awareness of Sustainable Land and Water Management (SLWM) in Ghana was increased through targeted media campaigns