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Sector costs far exceed revenues, costing the budget about percent of GDP annually in recent years. The objective of the World Bank Group's Country Partnership Strategy CPS FY was to assist the government to sustain economic growth, accelerate poverty reduction, and enhance shared prosperity. Lessons from the CPS and the Systematic Country Diagnostic SCD will inform a new Country Partnership Framework CPF to help Ghana consolidate its economic transition to the status of a lower-middle-income country by addressing sources of inequality, improving human capital services, building stronger economic and management institutions, increasing agriculture productivity, and improving the business climate.
The CPF under preparation is based on three pillars anchored in government policies including the Ghana Coordinated Program of Economic and Social Policies Agenda, as well as the medium-term development:. Cross-cutting themes are new markets development, job creation, and skills development. Its strategy in Ghana focuses on supporting economic growth and diversification through agribusiness, manufacturing, and expansion of access to finance. In addition, IFC has provided technical assistance to improve the investment climate and trade logistics.
As of September 15, , a total of 1. Social mobilization activities for COVID vaccination, reaching the hard-to-reach and the vulnerable populations, are also part of these health systems strengthening efforts.
It has also under its institutional sanitation component supported the construction of new sanitation facilities and rehabilitated in different schools. The project has also helped to provide access to improved water supply to more than , people through km of distribution pipelines and provided 10, new service connections.
The Ghana Commercial Agricultural Project to improve agricultural productivity and production of smallholder and nucleus farms has benefited 14, farmers of which 4, are women. The project helped them to meet and surpassed the target for yield of maize, rice under rainfed conditions and soya in the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority SADA zone.
The area under formal commercial arrangements in the SADA zone was 5, The total area provided with improved irrigation and drainage services was 6, With support from the Secondary Education Improvement Project SEIP , Ghana has increased the number of seats available to students in senior high schools in underserved districts by at least 43, seats and provided over 20, low-income students with scholarships between and Completion of higher secondary education increased in the two poorest quintiles in the targeted districts from 8.
Twenty-one new senior secondary schools have been constructed and rehabilitated, increasing the number of spaces available by 43, seats between and In , it enabled at least 1. Mobile phones. What problems does Ghana have? Ghana has many problems, the video below summarises the problems of one woman from Northern Ghana.
Video 2 - What does the video show about life in Northern Ghana? There is a long history of problems in Ghana, despite large resources of cocoa, gold and diamonds. By , the next major industry developed — slavery. Over , people a year were bought from the Gold coast and transported across the Atlantic to work on plantations in the Caribbean. The British occupied Ghana as a colony in , and used it a s a base to ship gold, metal ores, ivory and cocoa.
This long history of exploitation by foreigners left Ghana very poor, so when independence was declared in the country faced huge problems. These have had a long lasting legacy, coupled with current problems of debt repayments and desertification. In northern Ghana many areas are at risk of becoming desert, this is because the savanna is too heavily used because of chopping down trees and overgrazing by cattle, and natural causes such as increased drought and wind erosion.
The end result is soil erosion and desertification. Ghana is also over reliant on Cocoa — when the price fell it left Ghana with a shortage of income. Ghana has also borrowed a lot of money, and rising debt repayments are difficult for the country to deal with.
The map below shows a clear trend, the North of Ghana has serious problems with poverty. Indeed, although there has been an overall decline in poverty in Ghana, poverty still has a firm grip on rural areas, especially in the north. There is a wide gap in income between people living in the drought-prone northern plains, and those living in the south, where there are two growing seasons and greater economic opportunities.
The poorest parts of Ghana are the savannah regions of the north the Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions , where chronic food insecurity is widespread and livelihoods are more vulnerable.
Poor rural people have limited access to basic social services, safe water, roads that are accessible year round, and electricity and telephone services. Poverty is most severe among food crop farmers, who are mainly traditional small-scale producers. About six in ten small-scale farmers are poor, and many are women. Women bear heavy workloads. In addition to their domestic chores, they are responsible for about 60 per cent of agricultural production.
More than half the women who head households in rural areas are among the poorest 20 per cent of the population. The video reveals what life is like for the rural poor in and around the town of Tamale in Northern Ghana. What challenges do these people face and what would it be like to live there? Large Scale Aid in Ghana. The Akosombo Dam. However, t he flooding that created the Lake Volta reservoir displaced many people over 80,!
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