Ghana

The UK is home to some of the largest diaspora communities worldwide and to help leverage this untapped potential, IOM UK launches the Diaspora for Climate Action (D4C) project.The project will enable diaspora members to build connections with key stakeholders in Bangladesh, Jamaica, Ghana and Albania that can help them achieve more effective and coordinated climate action, and greater and longer-lasting impacts on climate-vulnerable populations.

Since 2021, the partnership between Cenfri and IFAD through the Remittance Access Initiative (RAI) programme, co-financed by the European Union, has supported 14 remittance service providers (RSPs) in the seven PRIME Africa countries, to enable financial inclusion of remittance families. Through innovations on identity and digital financial services, RAI supports RSPs in lowering remittance transfer costs while simplifying onboarding requirements for low-income, rural and vulnerable families.

This action was submitted through the GFMD Mayors Mechanism Call to Local Action for Migrants and Refugees.

The PMD programme is financed by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and supports key actors in making more effective use of regular migration and diaspora engagement to achieve their development goals. Guided by the Global Compact for Migration (GCM), the program is implemented by GIZ in up to 25 partner countries and focuses on the following three components:

Programmes promoting effective management of health workers' migration, health system capacity building, and skill/knowledge transfer from the diaspora are underway in Somalia, South Sudan, Afghanistan, Ghana. 

In Somalia, IOM’s "Migration for Development in Africa" (MIDA) is an ongoing capacity-building programme, which helps to mobilize competencies acquired by African nationals abroad for the benefit of Africa's development. 

Agriculture, since time immemorial, has been the back-bone of Ghana's economy. However, recognized changes in rainfall patterns in Ghana over the years have compelled most farmers in the Northern, Brong-Ahafo and Ashanti regions of Ghana to abandon the farming profession and migrate to cities in search of non-existing jobs. An estimated 70% of Ghana's population depend directly or indirectly on agriculture (fisheries, crop and animal farming etc.). Ghana's capital, Accra, and the Asante regional capital, Kumasi, have been the most hit by these large movement of persons. 

The West Africa Network for the protection of children focuses on ensuring a continuum of services are delivered across the region within and eight-step procedure, ranging from the identification of a vulnerable child and provision of emergency care to their successful social re-integreation.

Ghana formally launched a comprehensive National Policy on Migration and an implementation plan in Accra on 5 April 2016 with support from IOM. 

The comprehensive policy will guide the management of the country’s internal, intra-regional and international migration flows. Its aim is to promote the benefits and minimize the costs of internal and international migration through legal means with the rights and security of migrants well respected in order to ensure socio-economic development in Ghana.

The African Postal Financial Services initiative is a joint regional programme launched by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the European Commission in collaboration with the World Bank, the Universal Postal Union (UPU) – a specialized United Nations agency for the postal sector, the World Savings Banks Institute/European Savings Banks Group (WSBI/ESBG) and the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF).