Strategic Consulting
Sustainable Healthy Diets in Ghana
Urban food environments were shifting faster than national dietary guidelines could respond. The task was to connect retail scanner trends, street-food vendor ethnography, and fiscal instruments into one credible roadmap.
Ghana's rapid dietary transition toward processed foods raised long-term health and sustainability concerns.
World Bank consultancy analyzing food environments, dietary patterns, and structural barriers to sustainable diets.
Policy roadmap adopted by Ghanaian policymakers and World Bank nutrition investment frameworks.
Overview
Urban food environments were shifting faster than national dietary guidelines could respond. The task was to connect retail scanner trends, street-food vendor ethnography, and fiscal instruments into one credible roadmap.
Methodology
- Mixed methods: structured vendor surveys, 24-hour recall modules, and fiscal incidence modeling of sweetened beverage and import tariff scenarios.
- Scenario planning workshops with finance and health ministries to stress-test political feasibility.
Outcomes
- A sequenced investment menu linking school feeding reforms, informal sector licensing pilots, and cold-chain gaps.
- Monitoring indicators agreed with the multilateral investment framework team for annual portfolio reviews.
Partners
- World Bank
- Government of Ghana — health and finance inter-agency team