Project profile — COVID-19 Health Response in Ghana

• Ghana (100.00%)

• Health: COVID-19 control (12264) (100.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (not targeted)
• Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• Nutrition (significant objective)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

This project aims to reduce deaths and illnesses related to COVID-19, particularly among marginalized and vulnerable people in the Ashanti region. Project activities include: (1) increasing the number of laboratories with COVID-19 diagnostic capacity; (2) providing water, sanitation, and hygiene facilities in public places; (3) acquiring personal protective equipment; (4) enhancing community awareness about COVID-19; and (5) delivering maternal, newborn and child health, and infant and young child feeding, with appropriate COVID-19 preventive measures.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) increased equitable coverage of public health and health and nutrition services for COVID-19 affected persons, including women, girls, men and boys; (2) improved effectiveness of a community response to and recovery from COVID-19, especially for women and girls; and (3) maintained coverage of essential health services adapted to prevent and control the spread of COVID-19, especially for women and girls.

Results achieved at the end of the project (December 2022) include: (1) 4 hospital laboratories upgraded with COVID-19 diagnostic capacity; (2) 15 health centers provided with oxygen plants and nutrition supplies, including infant weighing scales for outreach services; (3) 300 health facilities supported with improved water, sanitation, and hygiene conditions through the installation of over 1,000 free handwashing stations in public areas nearby the facilities; (4) 1,700 health workers, 700 community health committee members and 200 stakeholders trained on infection prevention; (5) 176 environmental health officers trained and equipped to monitor the capacity of communities in high-risk urban areas to respond adequately to COVID-19; (6) 2,500 community health nurses from 1,000 health facilities trained and equipped with tablets to collect community health data for the e-tracker monitoring system; and (7) neo-natal and obstetric equipment supplied to enhance maternal health and newborn survival. This resulted in 1.25 million children and 300,000 pregnant and breastfeeding mothers provided with ongoing services despite the challenges posed by the pandemic.

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