LEAP - Correcting the misconceptions

In the recent past, the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection  (MoGCSP) has noticed some publications on the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme. One of such publications was published by policy think tank IMANI.   The IMANI article in particular, was on what it called “IMANI’s initial verdict on LEAP and what can be done to get value for money”. 

The ministry acknowledges the verdict that some writers have passed on the programme that it is “having impact on the extremely poor beneficiaries per the result of the impact assessment by the Institute of Social, Statistical and Economic Research (ISSER) and North Carolina University in the USA”. 

The MoGCSP acknowledges that there is a lot more to do to further improve the LEAP programme - which many agree is having a positive impact on the extremely poor.  We would wish to clarify that social protection in Ghana includes not only LEAP but many other programmes that are implemented to com