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$547 Million U.S. Grant with Ghana Addresses Agriculture, Education and Infrastructure.


MCC's Innovative Partnership Continues to Deliver on America's Promise America's Promise - The Alliance for Youth is a foundation started by Colin Powell in 1997 to help children and youth from all socioeconomic sectors in the United States.  to Africa

WASHINGTON -- As the world community turns considerable attention to the issue of foreign aid programs in Ghana, the U.S. Government's Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC (The Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, Austin, TX) The first high-tech research and development consortium in the U.S., created in 1982 by leading companies within the electronics industry. ) has compiled the following resources about its ongoing, innovative program in Ghana -- totaling $547 million. MCC partners with countries committed to good governance The terms governance and good governance are increasingly being used in development literature. Governance describes the process of decision-making and the process by which decisions are implemented (or not implemented). , fighting corruption, and investing in their people.

Program Facts: MCC's Programs in Ghana:

Factsheet on MCC's $547 million grant program in Ghana

In Ghana, we are witnessing the future of development assistance through the transparent, country-led, results-driven work of MCC, which is already training farmers to strengthen food security, providing credit to farmers to grow their businesses, rehabilitating roads to help farmers access markets, and building schools to educate the next generation.

MCC and Africa: A Growing Partnership for Success

Ghana is one of 10 African countries benefitting from U.S. Government-funded MCC investments, totally $4.5 billion throughout the continent. MCC supports African solutions to African development challenges, through country-determined and country-implemented anti-poverty solutions.

Personal Stories:

See how MCC Programs Make a Difference in Lives of Ghanaians

* A Ghanaian Working Mother's Story

* Rural Schools in Ghana A list of schools in Ghana.
See also: List of Senior Secondary schools in Ghana


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* Democracy & Governance: Good Policies Facilitate Growth

* MCC Facilitates Ghanaian -Led Partnership with USAID USAID United States Agency for International Development
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 to Improve Primary Education

* How Smart Investments Along an Integrated Supply Chain Make a Difference

Video:

Watch on-the ground- footage of MCC programs in action

* MCC in Africa

* A Ghanaian Working Mother's Story

Commentary:

Read op-eds by Bono and Kofi Annan discussing MCC in Ghana

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* Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times

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 op-ed co-authored by MCC and Kofi Annan

* AllAfrica.com op-ed supporting U.S. Ghana partnerships

* New Hampshire Union Leader The New Hampshire Union Leader is the daily newspaper of Manchester, the largest city in the state of New Hampshire. As of 2003 it has a daily circulation of 61,548; as of 2006, the circulation of its Sunday paper, the New Hampshire Sunday News  op-ed by MCC Ghana Country Director

* Devex interview with MCC Africa experts

* America.gov: President Obama's Visit to Ghana will be Historic

* The United States and Ghana: A Partnership of Tangible Results

For more information and resources about what the U.S. Government is doing in Ghana through MCC click here: http://www.mcc.gov/mcc/countries/ghana/index.shtml
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