Video: iWatch Africa assessment of the Planting for Food and Jobs Program

Gideon Sarpong September 2, 2017

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The Planting for Food and Jobs program as part of the budget statement focus for 2017 was initiated by the government to create jobs for Ghanaians and also serve as a boost to the country’s agricultural sector.

iWatch Africa in our bid to promote transparency and accountability, decided to conduct a third-quarter assessment of the Planting for Food and Jobs program in the Ho Municipality.

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Credit: Gideon Sarpong | iWatch Africa

Gideon Sarpong September 2, 2017

Less than a minute

Gideon Sarpong

Gideon Sarpong is a policy analyst and media practitioner with close to a decade of experience in policy, data and investigative journalism. Gideon is a co-founder of iWatch Africa. He is an author; a fellow of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), Thomson Reuters Foundation, Commonwealth Youth Program ,Free Press Unlimited and Bloomberg Data for Health Initiative. Gideon is the Ghana Hub Lead of Sustainable Ocean Alliance. He was a 2021 Policy Leader Fellow at the European University Institute, School of Trans-national Governance in Florence, Italy and 2020/21 Open Internet For Democracy Leader. Gideon was also a 2021/22 Visiting Scholar/Reuters Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK and was selected as a 2022 TRF/Trust Conference Changemaker. Email: gideonsarpong@iwatchafrica.org