Africa Region Findings & Good Practice Infobriefs

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These briefs report on ongoing operational, economic, and sector work carried out by the World Bank and its member governments in the Africa Region.

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Ghana : The AIDS Response Project (GARFUND)

( 2007-05) Mohan, P. C.

The specific objectives of this project - financed through an IDA credit of $28.7 million (2002-05) - were to: provide resources that would enable the government to implement a balanced, diversified multi-sector response, engaging all relevant government sectors, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and grassroots initiatives; to expand contributions made by the Ministry of Health ( MOH ) engage civil society in the fight against AIDS; and finance eligible activities conducted by civil society organizations, including NGOs, community-based organizations (CBOs), faith-based organizations (FBOs), trade and professional associations, associations of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs), districts, and line ministries to ensure a rapid multisector scaling-up of HIV prevention and care activities in all regions and at all administrative levels.
Ghana : The Village Infrastructure Project

(Washington, DC, 2006-09) World Bank

The project, with an IDA credit of US$30 million, and a total of $60 million was implemented by the government between 1998 and 2004. It was jointly financed by KFW $7m; IFAD, $10; GoG $7.1m; District Assemblies $3.0m and beneficiaries $2.9m. Its main objective was to support the government's efforts to reduce poverty and enhance the quality of life of the rural poor through the increased transfer of technical and financial resources for the development of basic village-level infrastructure that could be maintained by the beneficiaries. It also supported the capacity building of District Assemblies to better plan and manage these investments. The project had 4 components: (i) Rural water infrastructure; (ii) Rural transport infrastructure; (iii) Rural post-harvest infrastructure; and (iv) Institutional strengthening.
Ghana : Coastal Wetlands Management

(World Bank, Washington, DC, 2002-06) Mohan, P. C.

The objectives of the Coastal Wetlands Management Project for Ghana (1993-99) were to maintain the ecological integrity of five key coastal wetland areas by involving the people who derive their livelihood from these ecosystems in the planning and implementation of management programs; to identify and monitor the common resources that benefit the human and bird populations in the wetlands, and manage them without unduly restricting the options of people to derive benefit from the resources. It would also develop capabilities at government and community level for implementing the program. This project was implemented with the assistance of a Global Environmental Trust Fund grant.
Ghana : Water and Sanitation

(World Bank, Washington, DC, 2001-06) Mohan, P. C.

The First Community Water and Sanitation Project (CWSP-I), 1994-2000, was the World Bank's first stand-alone rural water and sanitation project in Ghana. It was designed to help achieve the objectives of the National Community Water and Sanitation Program by: a) providing basic water and sanitation services to communities that will contribute toward the capital costs and pay the normal operations, maintenance, and repair costs of their facilities; b) ensuring sustainability of these facilities through community management, including involvement of women, private sector provision of goods and services, and public sector promotion and support; and c) maximizing health benefits by integrating water, sanitation, and hygiene education interventions. This Notes summarizes some of the target achieved and the lessons learned from the implementation of the project.
Ghana's Poverty Monitoring System

(World Bank, Washington, DC, 2001-05) Canagarajah, Sudharshan ; Mohan, Prasad C.

The note features the particularly serious problem of poverty monitoring systems in Sub-Saharan Africa, namely through the case of Ghana, where in 1987, the first Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) was conducted. It notes though, that over the years data collection in Ghana improved substantially, where recent LSMS data for the country, became the centerpiece of Consultative Group meetings, undoubtedly a "good practice" that deserves special mention. Lessons, and trends that facilitated the process address the increased upstream planning in data entry, data cleaning, and data analysis, in addition to capacity building, and training prior to launching surveys. Nonetheless, areas for further improvement still indicate prevailing institutional bottlenecks, and delays in the release of counterpart funds, which are conducive to weak procurement practices, aggravated by the continued, over-reliance on external consultants.
Ghana - Financial Services for Women Entrepreneurs in the Informal Sector

( 1999-06) World Bank

The Ghana Microfinance Institution (MFI) action research network brings together organizations interested in providing financial services to the poor in Ghana. With World Bank support, the network carried out this study which provides brief descriptions of the innovations that informal, semi-formal, and formal MFIs have developed in providing financial services to female entrepreneurs in Ghana. It also makes recommendations on how such services can be strengthened and improved.
TechnoServe in Ghana

(Washington, DC, 1998-05) World Bank

TechnoServe (TNS) is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1968 and has programs in 14 countries in Africa, Latin America and Central Europe. The Ghana program was established in 1971. TechnoServe's mission is to establish sustainable community-based enterprises that increase productivity, income and employment. It opposes food relief, subsidized inputs and grants and promotes self-help and technical assistance to rural communities. This approach involves the provision of financial and business management training in order to help these communities make sound business decisions and create and operate their own enterprises. Although TNS believed that the key to financing these small community-based enterprises was savings, eventually it became convinced that credit was also necessary. TNS therefore evolved its own financial mediation strategy by developing innovative mechanisms for micro-enterprise financing.
Ghana - Building Local Capacity for Integrated Coastal Zone Management

(World Bank, Washington, DC, 1998-04) Mohan, P. C.

During 1996 and 1997, a series of Bank-assisted workshops were held under the auspices of the Environmental Protection Agency, Ghana. They intended to: 1) raise awareness among coastal communities of the need for better management of the marine and coastal ecosystem; 2) identify the priority needs of coastal communities; 3) identify appropriate, cost-effective interventions for addressing these needs; 4) raise awareness of ongoing initiatives to support such interventions; and 5) assist coastal communities in the design of appropriate small-scale initiatives to address priority needs.
Ghana - Capacity Development and Utilization Initiative

(Washington, DC, 1997-06) World Bank

The widely-acclaimed Economic Recovery Program launched by Ghana in 1983 faced the challenge of sustaining the gains achieved in terms of economic liberalization and macroeconomic stability. The country needed to enter a phase of accelerated export-led growth and social equity that would deliver a modern economy by the 21st century. Urgent action was required to address a number of national capacity issues that had constrained Ghana's development efforts since independence in 1957.