by pna
The government of
Ghana and the E
uropean Union (EU) signed a
97-million-euro grant agreement Tuesday to assist Ghana in its health and local government development.
Out of the amount, 52 million euros will be utilized in supporting Ghana's drive to eradicate maternal mortality and child mortality in line with the Millennium Development Goals ( MDGs) Four and Five, while 45 million euros will support the country's decentralization process.
Signing for Ghana, minister for Finance and Economic Planning Kwabena Duffuor said the Maternal Health Support Program (MHSP), which would benefit from 50 million euros of the grant, aimed at reducing by two-thirds maternal mortality by 2015.
He expressed gratitude to the EU for its continued support for the decentralization process in Ghana, pledging that the new grant would help in consolidating the gains made so far in decentralization.
Duffuor assured Ghana's partners that their support was not being thrown away but into an economy that had huge prospects, promising that although elections were near, macroeconomic stability would be sustained through prudent spending.
The visiting EU Commissioner for Development,
Andris Piebalgs, who signed for his outfit, said the grant was an important part of the one billion euros raised from EU tax payers to help attain the MDGs.
He believed it was important for the Ministry of Health to make good its promise of reaching the MDGs by the target date of
2015.According to him, the EU was also in to strengthen good governance in Ghana through its decentralization program, and promised the EU's readiness to continue supporting Ghana to bring quality development to its people.
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