Written question asked by Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour) on Thursday, 3 April 2025, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 8 April 2025 (named day). It was answered by Hamish Falconer (Labour) on Tuesday, 8 April 2025 on behalf of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

Ghana: Development Aid

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what funding the UK has provided to support social programmes benefiting cocoa farming communities in Ghana in the last five years.

Answer: The UK has supported a number of global programmes relevant to the cocoa sector in Ghana, most notably 'Partnerships for Forests' (£120 million for 2015-24 across six countries including Ghana) and the 'Ghana Cocoa Forest REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) Programme' (£141.5 million since 2019, of which £17 million was allocated to Ghana). In addition, a bilateral 'Ghana Agricultural Transformation Programme' (£900,000 over four years) also included investments supporting cocoa companies to trial schemes to improve cocoa farmers' livelihoods.

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