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Market Systems and Resilience Activity (Ghana):  Despite the agriculture sector's immense contribution to Ghana's economy, its advancement is hampered due to myriad factors. Ghana's markets remain undiversified and vulnerable to external shocks, such as price and production fluctuations, climate and health risks, and pests and diseases. Further, Ghana's market systems have weak regulations, inadequate coordination among market actors, inadequate private sector engagement, lack of product diversity and quality standards, insufficient market size, and lack of finance and skilled labor for micro, small, and medium enterprises. ..The USG, through USAID-funded Ghana Market Systems and Resilience Activity (MSR), will use FY 2023 funds to strengthen commercial relationships between market actors, improve the rural entrepreneurship ecosystem to enable greater market participation (particularly for women and youth), expand the availability of agribusiness services, and link targeted policy initiatives to improved local economic governance. These will result in competitive, stronger, and more resilient markets, thus increasing inclusive agriculture-led economic growth in northern Ghana. The activity will also promote entrepreneurship and financial inclusion of women...The activity will use FY 2023 funds to enhance climate resilience in multiple ways. The Activity will continue a partnership with the Forestry Commission to distribute and plant 5,000 tree seedlings across communities in the USAID target districts. This is to increase forest cover in parklands. Fire-resistant plants such as the jatophra, which included to prevent bushfire spread. The tree planting initiative will provide income generation opportunities and help the ZOI adapt to the impacts of climate change. MSR will also continue a partnership with the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) to support data digitization and establish an online dashboard with maps of disaster-prone areas.  .
Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) All facility-based and home/community-based activities for HIV-infected adults and their families aimed at extending and optimizing quality of life for HIV-infected clients and their families throughout the continuum of illness through provision of clinical, psychological, spiritual, social and prevention services. Clinical care should include prevention and treatment of OIs (excluding TB) and other HIV/AIDS-related complications including malaria and diarrhea (providing access to commodities such as pharmaceuticals, insecticide-treated nets, safe water interventions and related laboratory services), pain and symptom relief, and nutritional assessment and support including food. Psychological and spiritual support may include group and individual counseling and culturally-appropriate end-of-life care and bereavement services. Social support may include vocational training, income-generating activities, social and legal protection, and training and support of caregivers. Prevention services may include prevention for positives behavioral counseling, and counseling and testing of family members. The purchase of OI drugs (excluding TB drugs) should be included under Adult Care and Treatment. ARV treatment should be coded under Adult Treatment and ARV Drugs.
Evaluate for Health - Task Order 2 (Ghana):  The Evaluate for Health Task Order II focuses on delivering evaluation studies and assessments to direct the focus on managing for results, understand further how to improve aid effectiveness and accountability, and build local, sustainable research capacity. This project will implement an impact evaluation on optimal methods for health worker training, an evaluation on nutrition and poverty reduction in northern Ghana, and a malaria impact evaluation. Evaluate for Health, in collaboration with Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and Samsung Corporation, will also work with the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to simplify and digitize data entry at the sub-national levels using the District Health Information System (DHIMS) 2 platform to improve timely generation of health reports and data.  The project will also build the institutional capacity of the GHS and Ministry of Health to support strategic planning around health information systems.
KAB - USAID Resiliency in Northern Ghana (RING) IL with the East Gonja Dist Assembly KAB - USAID Resiliency in Northern Ghana (RING) Implementation Letter with the East Gonja Dist Assembly
Consultant to develop USAID/Ghana Mission-wide Performance Management Plan (PMP) Consultant to develop USAID/Ghana Mission-wide Performance Management Plan (PMP)
Scaling up HIV/AIDS prevention activities for persons engaged in high-risk Scaling up HIV/AIDS prevention activities for persons engaged in high-risk
KAB - USAID Resiliency in Northern Ghana (RING) IL with the North Gonja Dist Assembly KAB - USAID Resiliency in Northern Ghana (RING) Implementation Letter with the North Gonja Dist Assembly
Agricultural Development and Value Chain Enhancement (ADVANCE) project ADVANCE is a four-year value chain program designed to enhance market development and access to financial services and to improve the competitiveness of key agricultural commodity value chains in domestic, regional and international markets, thereby accelerating agricultural growth and food security. To ensure alignment with the new multi-year Feed the Future strategy, the program made a hard shift to focus its work in rice, maize and soy above the 8th parallel in Ghana which includes the 3 Northern regions and parts of Brong Ahafo region and Northern Volta . ADVANCE collaborates closely with Ghanas Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) in planning and implementing Ghanas Medium Term Agriculture Sector Investment Plan (METASIP). It also works closely with medium and large-scale agro-processors, farmers and farmer-based organizations, banks, and exporters in developing the targeted value chains.
Strengthening Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) (Ghana):  USAID will use fiscal year 2018 funds to strengthen the capacity of the private sector, build the capacity of pharmaceutical manufacturers and encourage local manufacturing of neonatal life-saving commodities, such as chlorhexidine digluconate 7.1% for cord care in newborns in partnership with Ghana Health Service (GHS) and other relevant stakeholders.  The activity will also collaborate with GHS and the Ghana Registered Midwives Association to train private sector midwives nationwide on the revised protocol for family planning. By facilitating Development Credit Authority-supported guarantee loans with Fidelity Bank and Ecobank to the Christian Health Association of Ghana and private facilities, USAID will increase access to finance for private providers to deliver maternal and child health, and family planning services to underserved communities. USAID assistance will advance Ghana's efforts to reduce its dependency foreign aid through strengthened private sector investments... .
KAB - USAID Resiliency in Northern Ghana (RING) IL with the Nanumba South District KAB - USAID Resiliency in Northern Ghana (RING) Implementation Letter with the Nanumba South District
Local Government Revenue Mobilization Strengthening (Ghana):  USAID will continue strengthening the capacity of local governments to improve revenue mobilization and public accountability in selected regions through leveraging work currently underway by Deutsche Gesellschaft f&uuml;r Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). Local government rely heavily on central government subventions to execute their mandate which arrive late and are inadequate. This situation hampers development progress and service delivery. Citizens are often unaware of how much is being raised from local sources, what the funds are used for, or how funds are accounted for. USAID's support aims to improve public accountability through the development of a robust framework for increasing internally generated funds, and assuring transparency and public engagement in budgeting processes and expenditure tracking. This is will enhance the effectiveness of public financial management by local governments and improve quality of local governance and resource mobilization.
Cross-cutting Health Systems Strengthening (Malaria) Promote sustainable improvements in health outcomes by reducing key health systems constraints to achieve the goals and objectives of multiple health elements and the health area overall. Activities coded here aim to promote financial protection, efficiency, and affordability of health services in general; ensure the quality or availability of an essential package of prevention, promotion, treatment and care services; enhance equitable access to priority services by under-served, marginalized and other high priority groups; and ensure responsiveness to people's expectations. Such activities strengthen the core health systems functions/building blocks (leadership and governance; finance; human resources for health; medicines, vaccines and technology; and service delivery). Note 1: Operating Units should report activities that address specific element goals under other elements, reserving the use of this cross-cutting health systems strengthening element for overarching activities that are supported with multiple health element funding. Note 2: Operating units should report activities that strengthen the information function of the health system under the Host Country Strategic Information Systems element.
Partnering to Build Community Capacity in Ghana USAID - Peace Corps Ghana Activity (Ghana):  NOTE: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Peace Corps/Ghana evacuated all volunteers in March 2020. At this time, it is unclear when Peace Corps will allow volunteers to return, but Peace Corps is using early calendar year 2021 for planning purposes.USAID will support Peace Corps Ghana to continue to enhance collaboration in Ghana as interagency partners in the Feed the Future (FTF) initiative to address issues of poverty, hunger, and under-nutrition. USAID will use fiscal year 2020 funds to promote major initiatives to reach more end beneficiaries through the partnership with Peace Corps Ghana. Interventions will include: individualized volunteer site placements, collaborative partnerships, connecting third-year Peace Corps Volunteers to other USAID implementing partners, and activities to support smallholder-farm households achieve food and nutrition security, sustainable livelihoods, and increased resilience ideally in the northern regions of Ghana, where poverty and nutrition statistics are poorest. This activity will also provide rigorous food security and nutrition training for all involved stakeholders. This will increase the capacity of partner communities, increase agricultural productivity and economic growth, and to improve nutrition and food security. This activity will also support Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs) to implement small scale community-initiated projects including community water systems, well drilling, and malaria training and prevention activities, aligning with Peace Corps' grassroots approach to development.. .
PIO grant with UNICEF to support Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) PIO grant with UNICEF to support Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC)
KAB - USAID Resiliency in Northern Ghana (RING) IL with the Kumbungu Dist Assembly KAB - USAID Resiliency in Northern Ghana (RING) Implementation Letter with the Kumbungu Dist Assembly
Scaling Up Targeted Instruction in Ghana Award to Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) to provide catalytic technical assistance for the scale up of targeted instruction (TI) in Ghana
Systems For Health (Ghana):  USAID will use fiscal year 2018 funds to partner with the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to create a robust, flexible, and sustainable health care system. Assistance will conduct integrated systems strengthening activities in maternal, newborn, and child health; family planning and reproductive health; malaria; and nutrition interventions. Activities include post-training follow up, clinical coaching and supportive supervision, and expansion of shared learning to improve access to quality health care. Activities will also build the capacity of managers, health workers, and community members to deliver and sustain the use of health services to have the greatest impact on health outcomes. USAID will tailor technical assistance to facilitate country ownership in health systems through expertise in health technologies; advocacy and community mobilization; linkages between the community and health services; and technical assistance in health financing, to build the GHS's financial management capacity to receive direct funding from U.S. Government. USAID's investment in health system strengthening will ensure improved health service delivery and greater health outcomes. .
Monetary policy Monetary policy consists of various mechanisms, such as interest rates, to allow the government to manage the economy by expanding or contracting the money supply. Programs must encourage and help host countries to apply monetary policies that keep inflation low in the short- and long-term, establish the basis for financial stability, and are properly coordinated with fiscal policy to maintain internal and external balance.
Resiliency in Northern Ghana (RING) Technical Assistance (Ghana):  This follow-on activity provides technical assistance to district assemblies in the Northern and Upper East regions, and the Northern and Upper East Regional Coordinating Councils, to implement programs that address key constraints to improved livelihoods and nutritional well-being. This technical assistance activity accompanies the TBD Nutrition and Resiliency G2G mechanism which aims to improve the livelihood and nutritional status of targeted communities in the Northern and Upper East regions, where food insecurity and poor nutrition outcomes are pervasive. The interventions will incorporate agriculture; livelihood; nutrition; water, hygiene, and sanitation; and governance and public financial management activities. This activity supports the local governments to plan, implement, and monitor these programs by training extension workers; coaching local government leadership; augmenting the local governments' human resources with temporary technical assistance staff; and building expertise and skills in global best practices in nutrition and agriculture. In addition, the activity strengthens the local governments' public financial management systems and practices. The activity provides targeted support to improve the districts' planning, monitoring and evaluation systems. The activity supports Ghana to reduce preventable child and maternal deaths and contributes to the Mission's Feed the Future Multi-Year Strategy.
Integrated Health Systems IDIQ The purpose of this task order is to provide technical assistance to implement the quality for health services activity in the country of Ghana. the purpose of the USAID/quality services for health activity is to strengthen institutional capacity.
Feed the Future Mobilizing Finance for Agriculture (Ghana):  Access to agricultural finance in Ghana is challenging and expensive to obtain, as financial institutions regard the agriculture sector as innately risky. Firms and smallholders are faced with interest rates as high as 40 percent, greatly limiting their ability to modernize and expand...To address these challenges, USAID's Mobilizing Finance in Agriculture (MFA) Activity provides financing of up to $500,000 to smallholder farmers and the "missing middle." The MFA Activity will continue to: (1) mobilize new sources of capital for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSME), (2) expand the supply of finance for MSMEs, and (3) form strategic partnerships to expand inclusive financing. Specific interventions include: developing the capacity of transaction advisors to generate and close deals; and forging strategic partnerships to reduce interest rates. The activity will work with agricultural marketing and service providers by facilitating access to the credit that enables them to pre-finance the cost of crop inputs and mechanized services for their smallholder farmer customers, with post harvest repayment. The activity will promote entrepreneurship and financial inclusion of women. The activity will invest in female entrepreneurship in partnership with the private sector, including through investing in gender-smart business. The activity will also focus on advancing trade and investment opportunities for women-owned, -led, and -managed businesses. ....
Mission-wide Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Platform (Ghana):  USAID's Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Platform activity will measure, analyze, and evaluate data related to results, and track progress under its Ghana Country Development Cooperation Strategy. This activity will support USAID in improving its performance monitoring and evaluation practices, and strengthen evidence-based programming and learning. Services provided under this mechanism will improve the Mission's ability to measure, analyze and communicate the impact of USAID programming in Ghana. The MEL Platform will support technical teams, implementing partners, and the GOG to conduct analysis, assessments, and evaluations; conduct key research; and develop an adaptive learning agenda. Additionally, the Platform will support USAID to institutionalize a Collaboration, Learning and Adaptation approach to ensure that USG-funded interventions collect, analyze, share and use appropriate data to make evidence-based decisions to improve outcomes. USAID will conduct research and baseline assessments to inform future programmatic decisions and identify potential areas of collaboration between governance, democracy, accountability and health. This includes support for data quality assessments, targeted data analyses, and research studies and evaluations.
KAB - USAID Resiliency in Northern Ghana (RING) IL with the Gushegu Dist Assembly KAB - USAID Resiliency in Northern Ghana (RING) Implementation Letter with the Gushegu Dist Assembly
Ghana Health Social Marketing Activity (Ghana):  This activity will strengthen access, demand, and uptake of high-impact health products related to family planning (FP); maternal, newborn, child health and nutrition (MNCHN); and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH). With FY 2022 funds, the activity will focus primarily on addressing the FP needs of Ghanaian individuals, couples and families by deploying a robust commodity distribution strategy and supporting it with innovative interventions to reach the most rural communities. The activity will increase the demand for these products through a social and behavioral change communication campaign that promotes modern contraceptives and addresses individuals' desire to avoid unintended pregnancies. TFHO will socially market water purification tablets in hard-to-reach communities without potable drinking water until these communities are provided with more robust and sustainable clean potable drinking water interventions. TFHO will work closely with Ghana Health Service and private health facilities to ensure compliance with national treatment guidelines on use of chlorhexidine gel for umbilical cord care in newborns and strategically introduce clean delivery kits for mothers during delivery where most needed.This Activity will also work with the Enhancing WASH Activity to identify sources of supplies for menstrual hygiene products (both reusable and disposable) and develop a social marketing brand for commercial introduction. In addition, it will work with stakeholders to develop sustainable markets for sanitation products e.g. SaTo pan, Digniloo, and other sanitation-related products across the country. In addition, USAID will strengthen the technical, organizational, and fiscal capacity of this new local organization and ensure sustained social marketing of health products.
Supply Chain Development Program/PYXERA (Ghana):  The aim of the Ghana Supply Chain Development Program (SCD) is to improve the capacity of local SMEs operating in the oil and gas sector supply chains.~
Accountable Democratic Institutions & Systems Strengthening Project (Ghana):  USAID will continue support to the local chapter of Transparency International, Ghana Integrity Initiative, to improve accountability in the public sector and reduce corruption.  This four-year anticorruption project will strengthen the participation of civil society organizations in anticorruption programs in fifty selected districts across Ghana.  The objective of this project is to improve civil society reporting, tracking and advocacy for stronger anticorruption work in Ghana.  USAID's support will employ an evidence-based approach and comprehensive civil society advocacy for legislative reform to reduce corruption and make government more transparent and accountable.  Through data collection, sanction referrals and the creation of an electronic reporting platform, citizen involvement in the project will support integrated anticorruption efforts, information referrals, and the monitoring and tracking of government actions in response to reported cases.
USAID/Ghana Agriculture and Natural Resource Management USAID/Ghana Agriculture and Natural Resource Management
Treasury GIFMIS Advisor The Ghana Integrated Financial Management Information System (GIFMIS) was launched in September 2009, as part of the Public Financial Management (PFM) Reforms in Ghana. The Controller and Accountant General's Department (CAGD) under the auspices of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MoFEP) is responsible for the reforms. GIFMIS involves the use of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) to improve on public financial management in Ghana. The major areas of the reforms are: financial management and controls (Controller and Accountant Generals Department), budget reforms using programme-based budgeting (Ministry of Finance ), and human resource management information system (Public Services Commission)
Feed the Future Agriculture Development Value Chain Enhancement (ADVANCE) (Ghana):  In support of Ghana's Global Food Security Strategy country plan, will increase the competitiveness of the maize and soybean value chains by increasing farmer productivity, profitability, and market access. This will increase smallholder farmer incomes and increase agriculture-led economic growth. Fiscal Year 2018 assistance will be used to increase access to and adoption of improved technologies and practices by smallholder farmers to improve the quality and increase yields. Also, USAID will create and strengthen market linkages between producers and major buyers to increase the price received by farmers; strengthen local organizations' and local governments' capacity to facilitate value chains; and train public and private sector actors to combat Fall Armyworm, an invasive pest that targets maize plants.. .
KAB - USAID Resiliency in Northern Ghana (RING) IL with the Saboba District Assembly KAB - USAID Resiliency in Northern Ghana (RING) Implementation Letter with the Saboba District Assembly
KAB - USAID Resiliency in Northern Ghana (RING) IL with the Karaga Dist Assembly KAB - USAID Resiliency in Northern Ghana (RING) Implementation Letter with the Karaga Dist Assembly
KAB - USAID Resiliency in Northern Ghana (RING) IL with the Sagnarigu Dist Assembly KAB - USAID Resiliency in Northern Ghana (RING) Implementation Letter with the Sagnarigu Dist Assembly