Ghana - Covid-19 Response Support Programme

Project Summary

Approval Date	24 Jul 2020
Signature Date	13 Aug 2020
Planned Completion Date	30 Jun 2021
Sovereign / Non-Sovereign	Sovereign
Sector	Multi-Sector
DAC Sector Code	15124
Commitment	U.A 49,500,000
Status	Implementation

Project General Description

The proposed project is an ADF Grant of Forty-Nine million Five Hundred Thousand Units of Account (UA 49,500,000) to the Republic of Ghana to finance the Ghana-COVID-19 Response Support Program (GCRSP). GCRSP aims to support the implementation of Ghana’s national COVID-19 Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan (EPRP); and the Coronavirus Alleviation Program (CAP). This is a Crisis Response Budget Support (CRBS) operation, disbursable in a single tranche in 2020. The program was prepared in close collaboration with the Export-Import Bank of Korea (Korean EXIMBANK), which is providing a parallel financing of USD 30 million to the Republic of Ghana. It comes in response to the financing requests from the Government of Ghana on 27th March 2020, 14th and 28th April 2020. Indeed, the first two cases of COVID-19 in Ghana were reported on March 12, 2020. The number of cases has progressively increased to 26,125, 139 deaths; 3,717 active cases, and 22,270 recoveries by July 16th, 2020. At the time, 58 % of the infected people are men and 42% women. More than 331,366 screening tests had been performed by this date constituting1% of the total population. The positivity rate is 7.6% and the case fatality rate (CFR) is about 0.6%. To counter potential surge in infections at the end of the partial lockdown, Government intensified contact tracing and testing to quickly detect and isolate new cases. The expected outcomes of the program are to (i) curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and (ii) build resilience to alleviate the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic.

Project Objectives

The program’s development objective is to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and alleviate socio-economic impacts of the crisis. The program will contribute to (i) the implementation of the national emergency preparedness and response plan (EPRP), and (ii) support socioeconomic resilience.

Beneficiaries

The program will benefit all Ghanaians. In this regard, COVID-19–affected persons will receive free treatment, and free water supply. The private sector will benefit from moratorium on the payment of taxes and refunds of tax credits and will be provided with direct subsidies and a guarantee fund enabling them to access bank credit.

Participating Organization

Funding

African Development Fund

Implementing

MINISTRY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMIC PLANNING

Information

IATI identifier	46002-P-GH-KA0-008
Last Update	17 Sep 2021

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Contact Details

Name	IBRAHIM Amadou
Email	i.b.amadou@afdb.org

Geographic Location

Country	Ghana

Project Classification

Finance Type	Aid Loan Excluding Debt Reorganisation
Flow Type	ODA
Aid Type	General Budget Support

Commitments

U.A 49,500,000

African Development Fund

U.A 49,500,000

Disbursements

Document Type	Language	Document
Appraisal report	en	viewer
Appraisal report	fr	viewer

Indicator	Indicator Measure	Target Year	Target Value
Percentage of the population tested	%	2020	3
Number of intensive care unit (ICU) beds for patients affected by COVID-19	Number	2020	100
Number of vulnerable households benefiting from food supplies	Number	2020	400000
Number of vulnerable households benefiting from food supplies - headed by women	Number	2020	140000
Number of households benefiting from free water and electricity	Number	2020	3000000
Number of households benefiting from free water and electricity - headed by women	Number	2020	600000
Percentage of registered Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) accessing Bank financing	%	2020	50
Percentage of registered Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) accessing Bank financing - managed by women	%	2020	25
Number of regions that have activated their Public Health Emergency Management Committees (PHEMC’s) or coordination mechanism for COVID-19	Number	2020	16
Number of Points of Entry (POEs) reporting alert/suspected cases of COVID-19	Number	2020	14
Number of health facilities with isolation capacity	Number	2020	20
Percentage of health facilities with isolation capacity	%	2020	100
Number of health facilities with health workers/staff trained in Interagency Pharmaceutical Coordination Group (IPC)	Number	2020	20
Operationalization of the Coronavirus Action Plan (CAP)	None	2020	Yes, by end July 2020 (operational Manual and eligibility criteria adopted)
Number of the most vulnerable individuals benefiting from transfer under the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) Programme	Number	2020	400000
Number of the most vulnerable individuals benefiting from transfer under the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) Programme - of which women	Number	2020	150000
Use of the Petroleum Trust Fund to finance the Operationalization of the Coronavirus Action Plan (CAP) in the tune of USD 218 million	None	2020	Yes, by end July 2020
Soft loan scheme for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) established	None	2020	Yes, by end June 2020 (20 of MSMEs headed by women benefitting)
Cabinet decision granting free Provision of water and electricity for vulnerable households	None	2020	Yes in April 2020
Edition 2020 of Municipal and District Assemblies (MDAs) Audit will cover Expenditures and Procurement in respect of COVID-19	None	2020	Audit conducted before end-June 2021
Programme Flow of Funds Audit by the Ghana’s Audit Service (GAS)	None	2020	Flow of funds achieved by end June 2021