Beyond the dialogues: Tracking and cost-benefit analysis of Ghana’s food system transformation commitments

 

Responding to calls for food systems to be transformed, over 160 United Nations Member States and representatives of regional blocks delivered statements and commitments to transform their foods systems at the 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit. Ghana’s pledge to transform its food systems includes 17 commitments across five focus areas. Catalyzing the process of transformation will require near real-time monitoring, advocacy and the unlocking of multiple accountability levers. However, there is currently no effort or mechanism in place to do so.

This project will develop a tracking framework to assess progress and challenges in Ghana’s commitments to transforming its food systems. Academic partners will develop the tracking framework and lead the data analysis, data curation, data visualization and evidence dissemination. They will conduct a cost-benefit analysis to assess the economic value, viability and societal impact of Ghana’s commitments. Civil society partners will support stakeholder sensitization to the results and proposals for accountability. The state actors will facilitate data access, the convening of all relevant food systems actors and exploitation of the findings.

Annual commitment tracking will be featured in Ghana’s progress reports to future global stocktaking of the commitments made during the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit. The outputs and lessons from this exercise will be disseminated on relevant platforms to motivate and scale up to other countries in the Africa region.

This project is funded through the Catalyzing Change for Healthy and Sustainable Food Systems initiative, a co-funding partnership between IDRC and the Rockefeller Foundation.