Ghana
Since 2009, our programme in Ghana has focused on sustainable agricultural livelihoods and free universal quality health care.
Fighting inequality
Ghana has recorded tremendous progress in development and poverty reduction in the last two decades, and has a chance of meeting the Millennium Development Goals on income poverty reduction and hunger. However, this progress masks considerable inequality, particularly between people living in southern and northern Ghana.
- 70 per cent of people in the poor northern regions live on less than $1 a day
- Life expectancy is just 58 years
Oxfam's focus in Ghana has moved towards supporting the efforts of civil society organisations and groups of poor farmers to get involved in the decision-making process and influence agriculture and healthcare policies.
We are condemned to life-long poverty, because everything we try to do in agriculture, we have to do at a loss.
Ghanaian farmer
How Oxfam is helping
We support networks and movements of farmers, particularly in the north, to engage with policy-making and spending decisions at a regional and national level.
- In Northern Ghana we are helping farmers ensure the government fulfils the promises it has made to invest in the Shea industry
- We are collaborating with CARE International to provide a sustainable food supply to 9,000 households across five districts in Northern Ghana.
