Ghana COVID-19 Emergency Preparedness and Response Project (WB-P173788)

Countries
  • Ghana
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Financial Institutions
  • World Bank (WB)
International, regional and national development finance institutions. Many of these banks have a public interest mission, such as poverty reduction.
Project Status
Approved
Stage of the project cycle. Stages vary by development bank and can include: pending, approval, implementation, and closed or completed.
Bank Risk Rating
U
Environmental and social categorization assessed by the development bank as a measure of the planned project’s environmental and social impacts. A higher risk rating may require more due diligence to limit or avoid harm to people and the environment. For example, "A" or "B" are risk categories where "A" represents the highest amount of risk. Results will include projects that specifically recorded a rating, all other projects are marked ‘U’ for "Undisclosed."
Voting Date
Apr 2, 2020
Date when project documentation and funding is reviewed by the Board for consideration and approval. Some development banks will state a "board date" or "decision date." When funding approval is obtained, the legal documents are accepted and signed, the implementation phase begins.
Borrower
Government of Ghana
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Education and Health
The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.
Investment Amount (USD)
$ 35.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Project Cost (USD)
$ 35.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ WB website

Updated in EWS Oct 22, 2020

Disclosed by Bank Mar 24, 2020


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Project Description
If provided by the financial institution, the Early Warning System Team writes a short summary describing the purported development objective of the project and project components. Review the complete project documentation for a detailed description.

According to bank documents, the proposed World Bank funding will support Ghana's emergency response to Covid-19 and "strengthen national systems for public health preparedness."

Project components are:

1) Emergency Covid-19 Respose

Case detection, confirmation, contact tracing, recording and reporting 

Containment, isolation and treatment

Social and financial support to households

Health system strengthening

2) Strenghtening multi-sector, national institutions and platforms for policy development and coordination of prevention and preparedness using One Health approach

3) Community engagement and risk communication

4) Implementation Management, Monitoring and Evaluation and Project Management

 

The bank has classified this project as having a Substantial environmental risk category and a Substantial social risk category.

 

Investment Description
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Contact Information
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World Bank

Anthony Theophilus Seddoh / Senior Operations Officer / 5241+4612 / assedoh@ifc.org

 

Borrower / Client / Recipient

Republic of Ghana

Ken Ofori - Attah / Minister, Ministry of Finance / ken.ofori-atta@mofep.gov.gh

 

Implementing Agencies

Ghana Health Services

Patrick Aboagye / Director General / yaboagye2003@yahoo.com

 

Franklin Asiedu Bekoe / Deputy Director, Surveillance and Head, Emergency Operations / kofi2711@gmail.com

 

Ministry of Health

Nana Kwabena Adeji Mensah / Chief Director / kadjeimensah@gmail.com

Emmanual Odame / Director, Policy Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation / joeankra@yahoo.com

 

ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISM OF WORLD BANK

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