Government / Ghana

National Development Planning Commission

Goals

By 2023, the Government of Ghana will jointly agree with multilateral agencies, civil society, and donors on coordination and oversight mechanisms for reducing and preventing malnutrition, and set in place …

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Research monitoring and data
  • Goal SMARTness index: High

By 2025, the Government of Ghana will increase the percentage of early initiation of breastfeeding within 1 hour from 52% in 2017 to 80%, led by the Ministries of Health; …

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Impact > Diet
  • Goal SMARTness index: High

By 2025, the Government of Ghana will reduce the prevalence of childhood wasting from 7.1% in 2017 to less than 5%

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Impact > Undernutrition
  • Goal SMARTness index: High

By 2025, the Government of Ghana will reduce the prevalence of overweight in women aged 18 years and older from 41.0% in 2016 to 17%

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Impact > Obesity and diet-related NCDs
  • Goal SMARTness index: High

By 2025, the Government of Ghana will reduce the prevalence of obesity in women aged 18 years and older from 16.6% in 2016 to 7%

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Impact > Obesity and diet-related NCDs
  • Goal SMARTness index: High

By 2025, the Government of Ghana will reduce the prevalence of iron deficiency (ID) in children under 5 years of age from 21.5% in 2017 to 15%

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Impact > Undernutrition
  • Goal SMARTness index: High

By 2025, the Government of Ghana will reduce the prevalence of iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) in children under 5 years of age from 12.2% in 2017 to 8%

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Impact > Undernutrition
  • Goal SMARTness index: High

By 2025, the Government of Ghana will reduce the prevalence of anaemia in women of reproductive age from 21% in 2018 to 14%

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Impact > Undernutrition
  • Goal SMARTness index: High

By 2022, the Government of Ghana will develop and implement a comprehensive Food and Nutrition Security Strategy, which will lead to 36% of infant and young children meeting the minimum …

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Impact > Diet
  • Goal SMARTness index: High

By 2024, the Government of Ghana will enact policies to eliminate industrially-produced trans-fatty acids and reduce the impact of marketing of foods and beverages high in saturated fats, trans-fatty acids, …

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Policy > Food environment
  • Goal SMARTness index: High

By 2030, the Government of Ghana will reduce the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages from 32.4 g/d to 15 g/d

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Impact > Diet
  • Goal SMARTness index: High

By 2030, the Government of Ghana will reduce the consumption of sodium from 3.2 g/d to 2.2 g/d.

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Impact > Diet
  • Goal SMARTness index: High

By 2028, the Government of Ghana will reduce food wastes from 84 kg/capita/year (in 2015) to 60 kg/capita/year

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Policy > Food environment
  • Goal SMARTness index: High

By 2028, the Government of Ghana will increase the production of climate-resilient varieties of diverse vegetables and legumes, fruits, and biofortified staple crops using sustainable agricultural practices by 40% (over …

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Policy > Food supply chain
  • Goal SMARTness index: High

By 2028, the Government of Ghana will expand the proportion of land area under irrigated agriculture (to produce mainly cereals, vegetables and fruits) from 11.9% to 20%

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Policy > Food supply chain
  • Goal SMARTness index: High

By 2030, the Government of Ghana will achieve seed security, breed security and land security for Ghanaian farmers, especially women and youth; and develop and implement well-structured training programmes for …

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Operational
  • Goal SMARTness index: High

By 2023, the Government of Ghana will develop and implement food-based dietary guidelines that define context-specific sustainable healthy diets

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Research monitoring and data
  • Goal SMARTness index: High

By 2023, the Government of Ghana will ensure that government plans, policies, and strategies are climate compliant, risk-informed, conflict-sensitive, shock responsive, costed, multi-sectoral, and aligned with concrete targets to prevent …

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Leadership and governance
  • Goal SMARTness index: High

By 2024, the Government of Ghana will compile, consolidate, and update local food composition databases, and develop a nutrient profiling system to facilitate implementation of a package of food-based policies …

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Research monitoring and data
  • Goal SMARTness index: High

By 2024, the Government of Ghana will increase maternity leave to 14 weeks to be implemented across all sectors of the economy and complete national multi-stakeholder discussions on the "Who …

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Policy > Food environment
  • Goal SMARTness index: High

By 2022, the Government of Ghana will develop and implement a comprehensive Food and Nutrition Security Strategy, which will lead to at least 30% of infant and young children receiving …

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Impact > Diet
  • Goal SMARTness index: High

By 2025, the Government of Ghana will increase the percentage of exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months from 42.9% in 2017 to 62%, led by the Ministries of Health; and Gender, …

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Impact > Diet
  • Goal SMARTness index: High

By 2028, the Government of Ghana will reduce food losses from 20% to 10%

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Policy > Food supply chain
  • Goal SMARTness index: High

By 2025, the Government of Ghana will reduce the prevalence of stunting in children under age five from 21.4% in 2017 to 14%

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Impact > Undernutrition
  • Goal SMARTness index: High

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