Clean Air Fund
Environment & Public Health
PR Strategy | Event Management
Stakeholder Consultation
Clean air policy in Ghana does not succeed at the national level alone. The metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies – and the MCEs and MCDs who lead them – hold the planning permissions, by-law enforcement powers, and community relationships that determine whether clean air commitments translate into action on the ground. Without their active partnership, national and international clean air mandates have limited practical reach.
The challenge was not simply informational. MCEs and MCDs already operate at high levels of institutional complexity, managing competing development priorities across their areas. Engaging them on clean air required more than a briefing — it required an immersive format that could shift orientation, build genuine understanding of the local assembly’s role as a clean air partner, and create the peer relationships and shared commitment that sustain behaviour change beyond a single event.
Bringing these decision-makers together for a two-day residential workshop also posed logistical challenges: stakeholder participation management, travel and hotel coordination, and a communication and branding programme to give the workshop the institutional weight its audience expected.
What We Did
Mech Consult managed the full event lifecycle from concept through execution, working across four integrated workstreams: event design, branding and communication, stakeholder and logistics management, and media relations.
We developed the event concept note, shaping the bootcamp format as a residential, intensive engagement designed specifically for senior local government decision-makers. The residential setting in Ada was a deliberate choice: removing participants from their operational environments creates the focused conditions that behaviour change communication requires. We designed and produced all branding materials and communication assets, ensuring that every touchpoint — from programme documents to venue dressing — carried the appropriate institutional identity for a Clean Air Fund engagement.
Stakeholder participation management covered outreach and confirmation of MCEs and MCDs across the target MMDAs, hotel reservations and residential logistics for all participants, and professional photography to document the workshop. We coordinated publicity for the programme, managing press coverage that extended the workshop’s reach and positioned the local assembly as an active participant in Ghana’s clean air agenda.
The Outcome
The bootcamp brought together the political and administrative leadership of Ghana’s local assemblies for a structured, residential engagement on clean air partnerships. By convening MCEs and MCDs in a dedicated two-day format rather than a one-off briefing, the workshop created the conditions for substantive dialogue, shared learning, and the kind of institutional commitment that follows when senior decision-makers invest two full days in a subject.
The media and publicity programme ensured that the workshop’s message that local assemblies are central partners in Ghana’s clean air agenda reached audiences beyond the participants themselves, reinforcing the Clean Air Fund’s public narrative and positioning local government as a visible actor in addressing air quality.
The engagement reflects a specific dimension of Mech Consult’s development communications practice: the ability to design and execute behaviour change interventions aimed not at communities but at the decision-makers who serve them – working at the level where policy commitment and institutional action meet.
