Ghana

Currency: Cedi (GHS)

Timezone: Greenwich Mean Time (UTC)

Major Cities: Accra

Ghana is a Western African country sharing borders with the Gulf of Guinea, Togo, Cote d’Ivoire, and Burkina Faso. The country’s climate is tropical-warm and dry along the coast and hot and dry in the north-with a terrain that is largely low plains. 

With a population of approximately 30 million people, Ghana is the second-most populous country in West Africa after Nigeria. The major ethnic groups of the country include the Akan, Mole-Dagbon, Ewe, and Ga-Dangme, with the English language regarded as the official language of the country.Ghana operates a unitary and presidential system of government that is administratively divided into 16 regions, including Accra, the country’s capital.  The country’s economy is a market-based economy dominated by the agricultural sector which accounts for 20 percentof the country’s GDP and employs over 50 percent of the labor force. The country is also the second-largest producer of cocoa which is a major source of foreign exchange to the economy along with other commodities such as gold and petroleum. The major problems facing the country include public sector corruption and youth unemployment challenge.

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Ghana Agriculture Sector Investment Programme (GASIP)

Ghana, Ministry of Food and Agriculture

The GASIP prioritises private sector-led pro-poor agricultural value chain development. It aims to provide the necessary framework for long-term engagements towards scaling up investments. The GASIP is developed to contribute to the achievement of Ghana’s...

Ghana • 2014 • Agriculture and Rural Development

Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda II (GSGDA II) 2014-2017

Ghana, National Development Planning Commission

This represents the medium term national development policy framework of the GSGDA II. It builds on the GSGDA I and contains a set of policy objectives to guide implementation of government goals at sector and...

Ghana • 2014 • Economy

National Employment Policy

Ghana, Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations

The policy acts as a comprehensive guideline towards addressing employment issues in Ghana. The policy prioritises vulnerable groups, youth, women and persons with disability (PWDs). It aims to integrate approaches in relation to: entrepreneurial development,...

Ghana • 2014 • Labour

National Seed Policy

Ghana, Ministry of Food and Agriculture

The National Seed Policy pushes to make available for farmers, improved seed varieties, developed through research. This is to reduce the usage of old and farm-saved seeds to ultimately drive production levels and increase farmers’...

Ghana • 2013 • Agriculture and Rural Development

Ghana National Climate Change Policy

Ghana, Ministry of Environment, Science Technology and Innovation

The National Climate Change Policy is to provide direction to stakeholders and coordinate all climate change interventions and activities in Ghana. Its ultimate goal is to ensure a climate resilient and climate compatible economy while...

Ghana • 2013 • Environment and Climate Change

National Nutrition Policy (2014-2017)

Ghana, Ministry of Health

The National Nutrition Policy contains the commitment of the Government of Ghana and other stakeholders to promote adequate nutrition in Ghana. The policy also places priority on vulnerable populations such as HIV/AIDS patients, children and...

Ghana • 2013 • Agriculture and Rural Development

Value Added Tax Act, 2013 (Act 870)

Ghana, Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning

An Act to revise and consolidate the law relating to the imposition of the value added tax and to provide for related matters.

Ghana • 2013 • Finance

Private Health Sector Development Policy

Ghana, Ministry of Health

This policy strives to address the improvement of the investment climate for private health sector growth. It recognises the current limitations facing the developmental process of the private sector. It seeks to build the capacity...

Ghana • 2013 • Health

Ghana Investment Promotion Centre Act 2013, Act 865

Ghana, Ghana Investment Promotion Center (GIPC)

An Act passed by Parliament to provide for the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre. The Centre is to serve as the government agency responsible for the encouragement and promotion of investments in Ghana, and for related...

Ghana • 2013 • Trade, Industry and Investment

The Common External Tariff (CET)

Ghana, Ghana Investment Promotion Center (GIPC)

This brochure shows the structure, benefits, challenges, and the way forward of the CET of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

Ghana • 2013 • Trade, Industry and Investment

Minerals And Mining (Explosives) Regulations

Ghana, Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources

The regulations apply to all activities related to the conveyance, storage, possession, manufacture, and use of explosives for mining, quarrying and civil works, as well as substances used for the manufacture of explosives. The regulations...

Ghana • 2012 • Mining

National Employment Policy (2012-2016)

Ghana, Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations

This 5-year national policy pushes to address issues around unemployment and underemployment. Among others, the policy prioritises efforts at agriculture modernisation, reforestation, private sector inclusion, agricultural infrastructure development, and sustainable environmental development.

Ghana • 2012 • Labour

Ghana Forest and Wildlife Policy

Ghana, Ministry of Lands

The policy has objectives to: promote training, research, and technology development that supports sustainable forest management; to manage and enhance the ecology of the forest; and to promote the rehabilitation of regraded forest landscapes through...

Ghana • 2012 • Forestry and Wildlife

Ghana National Aquaculture Development Plan (GNADP) 2012-2016

Ghana, Ministry of Food and Agriculture

The Aquaculture Development Plan complements other efforts and interventions charged towards averting reduction in stocks of captured fish. It aims to revitalise the fisheries subsector as a tool for accelerated growth. The broader goal is...

Ghana • 2012 • Agriculture and Rural Development

Minerals And Mining (Health, Safety and Technical) Regulations

Ghana, Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources

The regulations contained therein are issued with respect to health and safety in (land) mining operations in Ghana. They also concern the protection of the environment and, in particular, prescribe technical and safety standards for...

Ghana • 2012 • Mining

National Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) Plan

Ghana, Water Resources Commission

The vision of the Government of Ghana regarding the water sector is for “all people living in Ghana have access to adequate, safe, affordable and reliable water service, practice safe sanitation and hygiene and that...

Ghana • 2012 • Utilities

Public Health Act

Ghana, Ministry of Health

The Act addresses health issues relating to: the protection of public health in Ghana, environmental sanitation, provisions on diseases of a communicable nature, food vending and food-borne diseases. The act also contains prohibitions to noxious...

Ghana • 2012 • Health

National Environmental Policy

Ghana, Ministry of Environment, Science Technology and Innovation

The objective of the National Environmental Policy is sustainable development, aimed at ensuring citizens’ quality of life and their living and working environments, equal access to land and other natural resources, more efficient use of...

Ghana • 2012 • Environment and Climate Change