Ghana’s 2025 Budget: Major Allocations to Various Sectors and Programs

The Government of Ghana has presented its budget for 2025 following the change in administration on January 7, 2025.

Among the many items included in Ghana’s 2025 Budget are the monetary allocations for various sectors and programmes.

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The budget outlines the following allocations:

1. GH¢499.8 million – Allocation for the No-Academic-Fee policy for first-year students in public tertiary institutions.
2. GH¢13.85 billion – Allocation for the Big Push Programme.
3. GH¢200 million – Allocation to support victims of the tidal wave disaster in the Ketu South Constituency.
4. GH¢292.4 million – Allocation for the distribution of free sanitary pads to female students in primary and secondary schools.
5. GH¢242.5 million – Allocation to support victims of the Akosombo Dam spillage.
6. GH¢3.5 billion – Allocation for the Free Secondary Education Programme.
7. GH¢564.6 million – Allocation for the comprehensive provision of free curriculum-based textbooks.
8. GH¢1.788 billion – Allocation for the School Feeding Programme.
9. GH¢145.5 million – Allocation for the Capitation Grant.
10. GH¢203 million – Allocation for the payment of teacher trainee allowances.
11. GH¢480 million – Allocation for the payment of nursing trainee allowances.
12. GH¢9.93 billion – Allocation for the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).
13. GH¢2.81 billion – Allocation for the Ghana Road Fund.
14. GH¢7.51 billion – Allocation for the District Assembly Common Fund (DACF).
15. GH¢1.5 billion – Allocation for the Agriculture for Economic Transformation Agenda (AETA).
16. GH¢51.3 million – Allocation as a seed fund for establishing the Women’s Development Bank.
17. GH¢100 million – Allocation for the National Coders Programme.
18. GH¢300 million – Allocation for the National Apprenticeship Programme.
19. GH¢100 million – Allocation for the ‘Adwumawura’ Programme.

These Budgetary allocation shows that the government wants to improve the lives of Ghanaians. Money has been set aside to support schools, hospitals, roads, and other important needs. If this money is used well, the livelihood of people is expected to be improved.

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