Behavior change communication on diets (Four Star diet) | Address sub-optimal diets and malnutrition, including overweight and obesity | GoodLife initiative | General public | Currently not being implemented | Nationwide | Ghana Health Service | None indicated |
Mandatory Food fortification (wheat flour and vegetable cooking oil) | Multiple micronutrient deficiencies- particularly iron | Prepackaged market products | General public | Currently being implemented | Nationwide | Ghana health Service Food and Drugs Authority Flour mills | Sub-optimal fortificant levels in market survey Non-promotion of fortification |
Universal Salt iodization | Iodine deficiency disorders | Packaged iodated salt on the market | General public | Currently being implemented | Nationwide | Ghana health Service, Ministry of Trade and industry | Unavailability of testing kits, High cost of KIO3 suboptimal enforcement of legislation |
Code of marketing of breastmilk substitutes | Unethical exposure to breast milk substitutes | Communities and health systems | Manufacturers, health workers, caregivers | Currently being implemented | nationwide | GHS FDA | Sub-optimal monitoring |
Community Infant and Young Child feeding and counseling | Sub-optimal child feeding | Child welfare clinics (CWC) | Caregivers of young children <24 months | Currently being implemented | nationwide | GHS, supported by CHV | Early attrition to CWC |
School meals programs | School enrollment and participation, acute hunger | schools | Basic school children | Currently implemented | Targeted communiti es and schools | GES, SFP, MLGRD | None indicated |
Planting for food and jobs | Low agricultural yield and productivity | Farming communities | Farm households | Currently implemented | nationwide | MoFA | None indicated |
Vitamin A supplementation | Poor vitamin A status | CWC | children<60 months | Currently implemented | nationwide | GHS, supported by CHV | Early GMP attrition |
Community-based management of Acute malnutrition (CMAM) | Acute malnutrition | Community case search, homebased or facilitybased management | Children <60 months | Currently implemented | nationwide | GHS | Limited availability of CMAM commodities |
Baby friendly-Hospitals Initiative | Sub-optimal breastfeeding practices | Maternity service-providing health facilities | Pregnant and lactating mothers | Currently being implemented | Nationwide | GHS | Low coverage; only 1/3 of maternity facilities are baby friendly |
Growth monitoring and promotion (GMP) | growth faltering among young children | Child welfare clinics | Caregivers of young children and children<60 months | Currently being implemented | nationwide | GHS, supported by CHV | Early GMP attrition |
Expanded Programme on immunisation (EPI) | Vaccine-preventable Infectious diseases | CWC | Children <24 months | Currently implemented | nationwide | GHS | Early GMP |
Routine deworming | Intestinal worm infestation | Schools | Children | Currently implemented | nationwide | GHS | None indicated |
Iron folate supplementation | Anemia and micronutrient deficiencies | ANC | Pregnant women | Currently implemented | nationwide | GHS | Suboptimal ANC attendance |
Adolescents girls iron folate supplementation | Anemia and micronutrient deficiencies | Basic and high schools | Adolescents girls | Currently implemented | nationwide | GhS, GES | None indicated |
Intermittent preventive treatment for malaria (IPT) | Malaria infection | ANC | Pregnant women | Currently implemented | nationwide | GES | Suboptimal ANC attendance |
Focused Antenatal care intervention | Maternity Complications, Nutrition issue of interest | ANC, Implementation platform(s) | Pregnant women, Target group | Currently implemented Status | nationwide Coverage | GES, Implementing agency(ies) | Suboptimal ANC attendance, Reported gaps |
Maternity protection (maternity leave) | Breastfeeding challenges | Workplace | Lactating working women | Currently implemented | nationwide | MELR, workplaces, trade unions | Inadequate duration of maternity leave, ILO convention not ratified |
Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty | Poverty and limited access to resources | Community-based, health facilities | Disabled, ultra-poor | Currently implemented | Targeted communities | MGCSP, GHS, | None indicated |
Family planning | Unplanned pregnancies and maternal malnutrition | Health facilities | Women and men in reproductive age | Currently implemented | nationwide | GHS | Low coverage, cultural misperceptions regarding modern contraceptives |