Parliament has approved a $500 million credit facility from the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) to finance the Ghana Market Access and Connectivity Project (GMACP).
The infrastructure initiative is aimed at rehabilitating and maintaining feeder roads to ensure all-season farm-to-market connectivity across 13 regions.
The total project cost is estimated at $523 million, comprising $500 million in IDA credit and $23 million in counterpart funding from the Government of Ghana.
The project will rehabilitate approximately 1,050 kilometres of feeder roads across four agricultural clusters, to improve year-round physical connectivity between farming communities, production centres, and markets.
Structured into four components, the first component, allocated $473 million from the IDA facility, represents the core investment and will finance the rehabilitation of feeder roads into all-weather roads.
The second component, with a total allocation of $41 million, comprising $18 million in IDA funds and $23 million in government counterpart funding, covers road maintenance and institutional support for road-financing reforms, including technical assistance to strengthen the Road Maintenance Trust Fund under Act 1147 of 2025.
The third component, allocated $9 million, will finance institutional, administrative, and technical arrangements to support project implementation, including procurement, financial management, monitoring and evaluation, environmental and social safeguards, and stakeholder engagement.
The fourth component, with no initial allocation, provides a mechanism for reallocating funds to respond rapidly to eligible crises or emergencies, such as natural disasters, flooding, or disease outbreaks, subject to a Contingent Emergency Response Component Manual.
The project will be implemented by the Ministry of Roads and Highways and the Department of Feeder Roads, with a focus on physical connectivity, resilience, maintenance sustainability, and associated institutional reforms.
