The shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic had great impacts on Ghanaian firms, forcing businesses to reduce staff hours, cut wages, & lay off workers.
Ghana Health Service (GHS) and UNDP are extending public outreach and awareness on coronavirus to vulnerable populations.
Promoting partnerships & leveraging digital innovations to accelerate SDGs achevement in Ghana.
UNDP has supported the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital to locally produce hand sanitizers to reduce the risk of COVID-19 infection in health facilities in Ghana..
Ghana made progress on poverty reduction over time but inequality needs to be addressed.
The results provide critical information to monitor the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on businesses in Ghana.
Watch how UNDP is supporting Ghana to accelerate sustainable development.
UNDP Ghana Brochure
This brochure highlights UNDP Ghana’s strategic focus areas for 2018-2022. The activities for the country office in Ghana for the next five years is focusing on two programme pillars. These are accountable, transparent and responsive governance, and green, equitable, and resilient development.
What we do
UNDP is the UN's global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in some 170 countries and territories, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and our wide range of partners.
UNDP Ghana Annual Report 2019
Together with our partners, we achieved great results in 2019 that will take us further towards the achievement of the SDGs. Click here to download the 2019 Annual Report.
UN staff in Ghana work remotely to ensure continuity of our support to the country
UN in Ghana is working with the government to strengthen preparedness and response efforts on coronavirus.
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About Ghana
28.2
Population in million in 2016
21.4%
Poverty rate (in 2012) down from 52.6% (in 1991) per World Bank
3,839
GNI per capita per the 2016 HDR
0.579
Human Dev. Index per the 2016 HDR
