Ghana

Emergency preparedness and response

In collaboration with the Ghana Refugee Board, UNHCR, IOM, UNICEF and others, WFP is providing monthly cash transfers via MTN Mobile Money to nearly 3,000 asylum seekers and refugees in Tarikom (Upper East Region), Zini (Upper West), and Ata Kura, Kaska and Bawa Akura (all Bono East) settlements, who fled insecurity in Burkina Faso, while also supporting nearly 4,000 host community members, to promote social cohesion and meet food and essential needs. Despite WFP’s ongoing support, over 14,000 refugees lack critical food support due to funding constraints. Furthermore, WFP delivers lean-season assistance to over 13,000 people across 19 districts in Northern, Savannah, Upper West and Oti regions, in response to rising levels of food insecurity – which are most pronounced during the lean season. In parallel, WFP is providing institutional capacity strengthening support to partners like the National Disaster Management Organisation, to enhance emergency preparedness and response.

Nutrition

WFP addresses malnutrition through targeted interventions, social and behaviour change, and institutional capacity strengthening. In highly food-insecure Northern Region districts and in collaboration with Ghana Health Service, WFP supports vulnerable groups - including pregnant and breastfeeding women, children aged 6-23 months and adolescent girls - with locally produced protein-micronutrient powder, cereal with added vitamins, and vouchers for nutritious foods. WFP’s rice fortification project, partnered with dsm-firmenich, the Government of the United Kingdom and The Rockefeller Foundation, supplies fortified rice to over 64,600 students across 65 schools in 6 regions. Additionally, WFP works with private sector partners like KOKO Plus Foundation and NEC to provide value vouchers and equip health facilities with diagnostic equipment - improving nutrition and health outcomes in 90 districts.

Food systems

Through South-South and Triangular Cooperation, government partners are trained in post-harvest management, which they then teach to smallholder farmers. WFP provides markets for smallholder farmers through the production and export of fortified cereal for WFP operations in other countries. Women-owned agroprocessors in northern Ghana have received equipment and training.

Social protection

Strengthening the national Ghana School Feeding Programme is a key priority. WFP supports digitization of the programme’s monitoring system to improve efficiency and accountability, and a bill that will diversify sustainable funding for school-meal programmes.

On-demand services

WFP provides services for humanitarian partners, including transport and common services, procurement and logistics, monitoring and evaluation, and data analytics.

In focus

Partners and donors