Ghana to chalk another first

Ghana is on course to become the first African country to achieve the first target (MDG l) of halving poverty and hunger by 2015, says a report released by the British Overseas Development Institute.

According to the report, “Ghana had reduced hunger by nearly three quarters from 34% to 9% between 1990 and 2004 -an area in which it had out-performed all other countries around the world.”

Disclosing this at the just ended High Level Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals in New York, USA, Alhaji Muhammad Mumuni, Ghana’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, said “We are approximately four and a half years to the target date of achieving the MDGs in 2015, and Ghana’s progress is encouraging.”

Quoting the report, he said, “Ghana is firmly on track to achieving MDG 1 -halving poverty; MDG 2 -achieving universal basic education and part of MDG 3 -ensuring gender parity especially at the primary school level before the target date 2015.”

The Foreign Affairs Minister again bemoaned that although the HIV/AIDS (MDG 6) prevalence rate in Ghana fell from 3.2% in 2006 to 2.2% in 2008 the challenge to meet the 2015 target of halting and reversing the spread of the epidemic remains daunting.

With respect to MDG 8, he adduced that what is of essence is the political will to fulfil pledges already made. “The success stories in a number of developing countries show that rapid progress towards achieving the MDGs is still possible when sound national development policies are supported effectively by development partners and the international community with adequate financial and technical assistance,” he stressed.

Affirming that achieving the MDG targets is no mean task, the Foreign Affairs Minister said , for Ghana, halving the proportion of people below the poverty line alone will require an annual investment expenditure of about US$1.9 billion over the period 2005-2015.

He revealed that this is being pursued simultaneously with the adoption of a social protection policy, aimed at empowering the vulnerable and excluded, especially women to contribute to and also share in the benefits of growth of the economy.

Ghana’s development agenda has been focused on growth and poverty reduction with the MDGs being adopted as the minimum requirements for socio-economic development. It was estimated that the total resources needed to implement the GPRS II over the period 2006-2009 was US$8.06 billion, with considerable proportions of the funds allocated towards the implementation of the MDGs-related programmes and projects.

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