Recent Nexus of Social Protection and Sustainable Development Goals: An Evaluation from Ghana
13 Pages Posted: 22 Jul 2022 Publication Status: Preprint
Abstract
The positive economic and social gains of social protection and its relevance to sustainable development goals places it at the forefront of the global agenda towards realizing sustainable development goals. This paper focuses on evaluating recent social protection programmes in Ghana and examining and how they align with the global agenda for achieving sustainable development goals. The paper consequently provides a comprehensive assessment of recent progress in Ghana’s social protection landscape and identifies relevant gaps to guide future social protection mechanisms to enhance national efforts to achieve sustainable development goals. The authors employed the desk study design using document analysis and review of relevant literature for data collection. The results of the review revealed twenty-six (26) individual policies and programmes. Also, each social protection programme falls under one of five classifications of social protection programmes by the Asian Development Bank and contributes to SDGs with six SDGs being prominent in the nexus. Ghana’s commitment towards achieving sustainable development goals through enhanced access to social protection is promising yet leaves more room to be desired. Extensive efforts need to be put in place to improve the nexus of social protection and other SDGs before 2030.
Keywords: SUSTAIANABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS, GHANA, RECENT, EDUCATION, ENVIRONMENT, DEVELOPMENT
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