Policy LINK Partners with USAID/Ghana
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Anchoring the activity will be outreach to government officials, civil society organizations, private sector representatives, research and academic institutions, and the media.
With an eye to improving the “efficiency, performance, and equity of Ghana’s food system,” USAID/Ghana this week became the sixth Mission to buy into the Policy LINK program, a global mechanism overseen by the Bureau for Resilience and Food Security (RFS).
The buy-in, which adds to the program's Mission partnerships in Bangladesh, East Africa, Ethiopia, and South Sudan, further expands Policy LINK's portfolio, just as USAID rolls out its ambitious new Global Food Security Strategy.
RFS, along with the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, is charged with shepherding progress against that strategy's aims, which include deeper engagement with youth and marginalized communities, especially on issues related to climate change. Coastal fishing communities, for example, will be key stakeholders in Policy LINK’s Ghana engagement, much of it centered around USAID’s Zone of Influence in the country’s north.
More broadly, the activity “will promote the inclusion and strengthening of Ghana’s key agricultural, nutrition, and fisheries actors and institutions… to improve planning and coordination around policy formulation, analysis, advocacy, reform, and implementation,” according to the statement of work.
Anchoring the activity will be outreach to government officials, civil society organizations, private sector representatives, research and academic institutions, and the media.