Aid Effectiveness in Ghana: How’s the L’Aquila Food Security Initiative Doing?

This paper assesses the degree to which the L’Aquila Food Security Initiative (AFSI) has been implemented in Ghana within the framework of managing for development results (MfDR), and to evaluate progress in various outcomes, including economic governance, agricultural growth, poverty, and food and nutrition security. The MfDR approach, which has gained widespread support globally for obtaining results, is endorsed by the government of Ghana and reflected in the Ghana Aid Policy and Strategy.

Keywords: agricultural development, Agricultural growth, aid programmes, food security, Nutrition security, Poverty, rural areas

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Benin, Samuel and Makombe, Tsitsi and Johnson, Michael, Aid Effectiveness in Ghana: How’s the L’Aquila Food Security Initiative Doing? (July 25, 2014). IFPRI Discussion Paper 01359, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2483994 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2483994