General
Source: All Africa
The World Bank Group, Marie Stopes International Ghana and PharmAccess Foundation International have presented items worth USD 200,000 to the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection.
The items included 100 ruggedized Personal Assistance Device (Android tablets) with solar chargers, reserved power banks, digitalized Proxy Means Test tool on the link and Cloud-based PMT data management software and monitoring system.
The others are two (2) Android Samsung tablet 4 with both links mounted for the Minister and Chief Director, mounted-LED Screen and Central Processing Unit that permanently displays data from repository to inform Minister on progress in real time and ten (10) motorbikes for District Social Protection Officers to use in monitoring field activities.
The presentation, made on behalf of the partners by Dr Nicole Klingen, Practice Manager of the World Bank based in Washington, was to assist the Ministry implement the Africa Health Markets for Equity (AHME) project.
In her remarks, Dr Kligen explained that the objective of the AHME project was to advance social protection of the extreme poor which aligns with the twin goals of the World Bank-- eliminating poverty and advancing shared growth.
It is also to promote access by the poor to quality and efficiently-provided health care services particularly by the private health sector.
She said at the end of the project, AHME was expected to have added 150,000 households, 900,000 persons and 70,000 extreme poor onto National Household Data Registry by June 2016.
The items, she noted, were, therefore, to be used to promote the tri-goal of identification and enrolment of the extreme poor for registration onto health insurance; scale up of cash transfers under the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) project; and contribute data into the National Targeting and Ghana National Households Registry database.
Receiving the items, Gender Minister, Mrs Nana Oye Lithur, assisted by her deputy, Alexander John Ackon, expressed gratitude to the Dr Kligen and her team.
Mrs Lithur was positive that the items donated to the Ministry would help to fast-track the registration of the poor and vulnerable onto social protection programmes such as LEAP and help in the targeting process for the creation of the National Household registry.