[{"bbox": [97, 151, 1166, 206], "category": "Text", "text": "value chain, from artists themselves to production and marketing organisations. These specific types of organisations/companies are often interesting opportunities of employment for young women."}, {"bbox": [97, 230, 1166, 471], "category": "Text", "text": "In the heritage sector, the main challenge remains bridging the gap between preservation/restoration of heritage sites and artefacts, and the development of Ghana's nascent tourism industry. While the Government of Ghana and private sector stakeholders have shown recent interest in boosting the national tourism industry by investing in new and better infrastructure and services (hotels, e-visas...), less attention has been given to the specific needs of the heritage sector. In fact, Ghana's heritage sites are a unique touristic attraction and their conservation and promotion are therefore essential to attracting more tourism. However, this will require more comprehensive investment in the heritage industry, from training of expert staff (conservators, guides, curators) to a long-term approach to heritage conservation and promotion. The recent re-opening of Ghana's National Museum is a step in this direction, but also shows the need for greater expertise in this sector."}, {"bbox": [97, 495, 1166, 709], "category": "Text", "text": "Common to both creative and heritage industries is the widespread public perception of these industries as non-profitable. Changing this mind-set is also essential to creating a conducive environment for development and expansion of these sectors. Creative and heritage industries provide unique opportunities for value creation. The creative sector in Ghana offers a dynamic, motivated and talented pool of creatives, waiting to scale up existing initiatives and launch collaboration and partnership initiatives (e.g. creative hubs). Moreover, supporting the heritage sector serves as an extension of ongoing government initiatives to boost the tourism industry. By addressing the challenges outlined above, Ghana's rich creative environment and unique heritage may develop into a successful cultural economy providing sustainable livelihoods for many."}, {"bbox": [97, 734, 549, 762], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Specific landscape of the Healthcare industry:**"}, {"bbox": [97, 761, 1166, 842], "category": "Text", "text": "The National Health Policy (Ministry of Health, 2020)¹⁶ identifies various strategies that could be adopted to improve Ghana's health sector, particularly responding to health care service delivery. The policy objectives reiterate Ghana's commitment to achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC)."}, {"bbox": [97, 867, 1166, 1025], "category": "Text", "text": "A review of the mid-year performance using routine data from District Health Information Management System (DHMIS2), shows that essential services utilisation and coverage had improved remarkably due to the gradual easing of the COVID-19 restrictions, which paved way for the sick to visit healthcare facilities for care. In response to increase demand for essential service over the years, the Ministry of Health continued to adopt an all-inclusive government and private sector approach aimed at strengthening vital health services and core capacity development at different levels of the sector¹⁷."}, {"bbox": [97, 1052, 1166, 1161], "category": "Text", "text": "Improved national capacity for effective disease surveillance is a major priority for the sector. This is demonstrated by the nationwide rollout of the Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System (SORMAS), an application tool for data capture for priority diseases especially COVID-19 and the deployment of the national eHealth project aimed at digitizing health data for continuity of care."}, {"bbox": [97, 1185, 1166, 1265], "category": "Text", "text": "In response to issues of emergency readiness and management, the experiences from the health system's management of the emergence of epidemics and pandemics such as COVID-19 and disaster situations have raised questions about the health system's readiness and capacity to manage such and other emergency situations."}, {"bbox": [97, 1290, 1166, 1478], "category": "Text", "text": "Given the lessons learnt from the COVID-19 vaccine shortage and the fact that the country and the sub-region are heavily reliant on various vaccines for their population, the Government of Ghana has committed itself to an ambitious plan of making Ghana a vaccine manufacturing hub. Its goal is to produce a first batch of COVID-19 vaccines by 2023 and to scale-up into the production of 13 other vaccine for the country and the sub-region¹⁸, including anti-snake serum and vaccines for tuberculosis, diphtheria, poliomyelitis, measles, rubella, tetanus. Having attained a lower middle-income country status, Ghana no longer qualifies for free or subsidised vaccine support programmes. The country is expected to exit from the GAVI programme in 2027."}, {"bbox": [86, 1528, 1145, 1568], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹⁶ National Health Policy (Revised Edition) January 2020 also online https://www.moh.gov.gh/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/NHP_12.07.2020.pdf-13072020-FINAL.pdf"}, {"bbox": [86, 1567, 466, 1586], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹⁷ 2021 Holistic Assessment Report – Ministry of Health"}, {"bbox": [86, 1586, 1145, 1628], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹⁸ The Chair of the Ghana Vaccine Manufacturing Committee, Prof. Frimpong Boateng, made this public at a Stakeholders' meeting on 27th August 2021 at Alisa Hotel in Accra. See: https://ghanatoday.gov.gh/health/ghana-to-produce-covid-19-vaccines-by-2022-prof-frimpong-boateng/"}, {"bbox": [1027, 1681, 1145, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 13 of 30"}]