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Introduction and Summary of Results
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. To assess the impact of the dry spell experienced in the seven regions of Ghana, the Technical Working Committee in collaboration with the World Food Programme (WFP), Ghana planned to conduct analysis in ninety-six (96) analysis units during the March 2025 Cycle of the CH. However, seventy-one (71) were covered because of shortfalls in the minimum required number of households needed to constitute an analysis unit. Hence, forty-nine (49) out of the fifty-five (55) districts in the five regions in the northern belt of Ghana were analysed at the district level whiles the remaining six were not analysed because they had less than the minimum 50 households required for food insecurity area analysis. Five (5) out of the forty-nine (49) districts recorded less than one hundred (100) households with data on food security outcome indicators, hence regional level statistics were applied and contextualised with district level contributing factors. A representative sample of 130 districts out of 195 across 10 regions in the southern and middle belt were analysed at the regional level. Data was collected on two food and nutrition 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.
The analysis estimated that about 2.4 million people, representing 7.4% of the population are in the vulnerable bracket of food insecure (CH phase 3 & 4) in the current period of March to May 2024. During the projected period (June to August 2024), the number of food insecure people who are considered vulnerable is expected to decline slightly to about 2 million people (6.3% of the population), which is mainly attributed to anticipated gains from Government interventions in the agricultural and health sectors. Nonetheless, the current and projected levels of food insecurity are the highest ever recorded since the inception of the CH analysis in 2017, underscoring the severity of the situation. 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 Feed Ghana Programme and Aqua-Cage Culture Fish project, and other developmental interventions should target areas with highly vulnerable populace, particularly those in emergency (phase 4) and crisis (phase 3). In addition, the population under stress (phase 2) should equally be supported to build and reinforce resilience to mitigate deterioration in worst levels of food insecurity