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Ghana

WFP Ghana Country Brief, April 2017

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Highlights

  • As part of Ghana Zero Hunger Strategic Review process, stakeholders in food and nutrition security from all the regions in Ghana have participated in consultations to discuss ways to address the key challenges in the sector, and proffer sustainable measures to attain zero hunger.

  • WFP Ghana is initiating discussions with National AIDS Control Programme to leverage the SCOPE platform in a capacity development assistance programme, for the effective implementation of the HIV programme in the Eastern Region.

Operational Updates

  • The Zero Hunger Strategic Review has undertaken nationwide consultations with multi-sectoral stakeholder groups from all the regions of Ghana. Participants were drawn from the Ministries of Finance and Economic Planning, Health, as well as Food and Agriculture. Policy Development Institutes, non-governmental organizations and community-based organizations in food security participated in the discussions on the challenges to food and nutrition security, and proffered sustainable solutions to the attainment of zero hunger by 2030.

  • Following a successful pilot take-home rations programme using the CBT modality, the programme is poised for a full roll-out of the entire beneficiary people onto the programme. Supply chain processes are being finalized for this expansion.

  • WFP is initiating a capacity transfer initiative with the Government to leverage the use of SCOPE in managing the people targeted for assistance in four facilities in the Eastern Region under the HIV programme. This support may also be extended to government partners in the wider nutrition programme, for better management of people targeted for assistance and programme sustainability.