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The Cadre Harmonisé (CH) is a unified tool for consensual analysis of acute food and nutrition insecurity in the Sahel and West African region. At the regional level, the CH process is coordinated by the Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS) and jointly managed by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and Union Economic Monetaire West Africa (UEMOA) within the Sahel and West African sub-region. The March 2023 Cycle of the CH analysis covered 66 analysis units. All 55 districts in the five regions in northern belt of Ghana were analysed at the district level whiles 65 districts out of 206 across 11 regions in the southern part were analysed at the regional level. Data was collected on two food security outcomes (food consumption and livelihood change) as well as five key drivers and contributing factors namely, hazards and vulnerability, food availability, food access, food utilization and stability. Outcome level data for nutrition was not available for the CH analysis during the period under review.
The analysis estimated that about 1.5 million people, representing 4.5% of the population are food insecure (CH phase 3 & 4) in the current period of March to May 2022. During the projected period (June to August 2023), the number of food insecure people is expected to decline slightly to 1.3 million people (4.2% of the population), due to the arrival of early harvests from some food crops and engagement of the citizenry in off-farm livelihood activities, especially in Southern areas of Ghana. During the current and projected periods, vulnerable food insecure people (CH phases 3 & 4) should be linked to social protection programmes to enable them to withstand economic shocks. In addition, Government interventions such as the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ), Rearing for Food and Jobs (RFJ) and Aquaculture for Food and Jobs (AFJ), and other developmental interventions should target areas with highly vulnerable populace, particularly those in crisis (phase 3), in addition to those that are in stress (phase 2), to build and/or reinforce resilience, to mitigate deterioration to deeper levels of food insecurity.