Annual Country Report 2022: Ghana. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2023

Annual Country Report 2022: Ghana. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2023

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2022.

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WFP supported the Government and people of Ghana, implementing a comprehensive nutrition and food security response and strengthening national institutions to level up their capacity to reach the most vulnerable, including in crisis scenarios. 95 percent funded against its needs-based plan, WFP supported more than 25,000 individuals through direct assistance (cash transfers) and several hundred thousand indirectly through the positive cascading impacts of increased incomes and the power of social and behaviour change communication for better decision-making. Of the total number of persons reached, 48 percent were women and 52 percent were men. Persons with disabilities comprised about eight percent of the beneficiaries supported during the year. More than 3,000 families in northern Ghana, specifically in Karaga, Ghana’s most food-insecure district, had their livelihoods and nutritional status boosted through interventions aimed at women and youth. WFP was able to continue its cash transfer support to smallholder farmers still recovering from the shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic through a partnership with the Government of Ghana and with funding from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). WFP assisted over 4,400 households (22,000 people) with direct cash assistance amounting to USD 782,000 via mobile money. This enabled the beneficiaries to not only feed their families but invest in prolific animals like sheep and goats, which will act as a source of future earnings as well as a safety net in challenging times. WFP invested heavily in securing the right talent to expand its food system and resilience-building efforts in Ghana ahead of wide-ranging interventions addressing post-harvest losses, nutrition in school meals through smallholder farmers' inclusion and food fortification. Through a continued partnership with Premium Foods Limited, a large-scale agro-processor first reached under the Enhanced Value Chains Project (ENVAC)[3], WFP facilitated the successful procurement of close to USD 7.5 million in specialized nutritious foods (SNFs) and local transport contracts, boosting the Ghanaian economy and sustaining jobs. Except when not locally available, raw materials used in the preparation of SNFs were procured locally from smallholder farmers at market prices, giving them a ready source of income, timed with harvests. Premium Foods also received technical and capacity-strengthening support from WFP in 2022.

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