Ghana
Capital city
Accra
Latitude
5.55
Longitude
-0.22
Geo
POINT (-0.22 5.55)
Country Boundaries
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USAID Nutrition Profile
Six Key Actions to Reduce Anemia
SPRING, September 2017
A Little Help from My Friends
When Sanatu Fuseini received a loan of 200 Ghanaian cedis ($50) from her village savings and loan association (VSLA), she was beside herself with joy. Sanatu, a mother of four, had always dreamed of starting a small trading business in her rural community of Gundu in Northern Ghana’s Tolon District, but she lacked the cash to fulfill her dream. Little did she know that a mother-to-mother support group, established to share good nutrition practices for children under age two, would lead to the break she needed.
Community Video Spurs Collective Action to Improve Sanitation in Ghana
In rural Kpatia-Tengre, a 131-member community in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region of Ghana, a lack of latrines resulted in community members openly defecating around homes and in fields that are used for agriculture. But when members of the community joined members of the nearby Tualabare village to watch a video on improving water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) in the first 1,000 days between pregnancy and a child’s second birthday, they began their journey to achieving open defecation-free (ODF) status.
Ghana: Quality Improvement Curriculum for Community Health
About This Curriculum
In Ghana, SPRING implemented a community quality improvement, or C-QI, program. By partnering with local non-governmental organizations to supervise C-QI teams, we focused on getting community members to demand better health services in their communities.
Ghana: Quality Improvement Curriculum for Health Facilities
About This Curriculum
This curriculum is meant for Quality Improvement (QI) trainings where participants are the coaches for the teams or are the QI team members at health facilities. This QI training is designed to be implemented at the health facility, and relates to corresponding PowerPoint Slides.
Facilitator’s Guide for Father-to-Father Support Groups
Introduction
Undernutrition is a key cause of poor child growth and development, including early cognitive development. Child growth, beginning during the mother’s pregnancy and continuing until the child is 2 years old, sets the stage for later life. Losses in physical and brain development resulting from undernutrition during this period—the first 1,000 days—cannot be corrected later.
Successes in Multi-Sectoral Nutrition: Sharing Lessons Learned from SPRING/Ghana
On September 7, 2017, SPRING/Ghana hosted an event to share important lessons learned and accomplishments in improving maternal and child nutrition outcomes in Ghana from 2014 to 2017. This event was chaired by the Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service for the Northern Region, Naa Dr. Jacob Y. Mahama, and the guest of honor Regional Minister for the Northern Region, the Honorable Salifu Saeed.