Ghana

Ghana enacted its work injury regulatory framework in 1940 and its old age, disability, and survivors and sickness and maternity frameworks after the 1957 independence. The Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty, a social assistance programme, was introduced in Ghana in 2008 and reached 213,044 households in 2018. The programme’s objective is to reduce short-term poverty and develop long-term human capital through a combination of unconditional cash transfers to the elderly and persons with disabilities and conditional cash transfers to orphaned and vulnerable children. In 2010, a Labour-Intensive Public Works was introduced to provide participants with employment with a daily wage amount of US$9.79. In 2017, the programme reached 165,860 participants. Ghana has a national coordination in place which is responsible for managing programmes and coordinating government efforts. In 2015 social assistance expenditure was 0.3 percent of GDP, translating to spending of US$33.89 per poor person.