Ghana Zero-Emission Vehicle Supply-Side Regulation
UN Environment Programme (UNEP) / ClimateWorks FoundationProject CoordinatorApr 2025 – Apr 2026
Coordination of Ghana’s first zero-emission vehicle supply-side regulatory framework, carried from technical modelling through national validation to a policy document formatted for government adoption.
Most electric vehicle policy in the region works on demand — incentives, charging, awareness. This programme worked the supply side: the standards and import conditions that determine which vehicles can enter the fleet at all. It produced Ghana’s first supply-side regulatory framework for zero-emission vehicles.
The coordination ran the full distance, from technical modelling through a national validation workshop to a policy document formatted to National Development Planning Commission standards so that it could be taken up through the government’s own adoption route rather than requiring a parallel one.
Getting there meant convening the Ministry of Transport, the Energy Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency, the DVLA, the Ghana Standards Authority, vehicle importers and dealers, and development partners around a single regulatory instrument — parties whose interests in the vehicle import market do not naturally align.
Sub-regional dissemination followed through ECOWAS webinars reaching 51 stakeholders across 9 countries, translating a national instrument into a regional policy conversation. The policy brief, validation workshop report, ECOWAS dissemination report and the final NDPC-format policy document were co-authored as part of the work.
