{"id":18828,"date":"2025-03-17T15:58:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T15:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/?p=18828"},"modified":"2025-03-21T12:55:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T12:55:22","slug":"highlights-of-send-ghanas-preliminary-assessment-of-the-2025-national-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/highlights-of-send-ghanas-preliminary-assessment-of-the-2025-national-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights of SEND GHANA&#8217;s Preliminary Assessment of the 2025 National Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SEND GHANA commends the government for incorporating key <strong>citizen-driven recommendations<\/strong> into the <strong>2025 National Budget<\/strong>, marking a <strong>significant step toward transparency and inclusive governance<\/strong>. Notable highlights include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Budgetary Wins<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Health Sector Boost:<\/strong> Uncapping of the <strong>National Health Insurance Levy (NHIL)<\/strong>, with <strong>GH\u00a29.93 billion allocated to the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF)<\/strong>, enhancing <strong>sustainable healthcare financing<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Education Investment:<\/strong> Uncapping of the <strong>Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund)<\/strong> to <strong>improve SHS and tertiary education infrastructure<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Social Protection Strengthened:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/download\/18924\/?tmstv=1742561648\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"285\" src=\"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/pdf-download-image2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18869\" style=\"width:217px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/pdf-download-image2.png 720w, https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/pdf-download-image2-300x119.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEND GHANA commends the government for incorporating key citizen-driven recommendations into the 2025 National Budget, marking a significant step toward transparency and inclusive governance. Notable highlights include: Key Budgetary Wins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[155,154,156],"class_list":["post-18828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-2025-budget-input","tag-national-budget","tag-transparent-governance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18828"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18943,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18828\/revisions\/18943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}