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| | GHANA: Canada to support food security and poverty reduction:Health and Medicine News - Medilinks Africa |
 | | ABIDJAN, 24 January (IRIN) - Canada is to provide $21.5 million to Ghana to help improve food security and reduce poverty, a Canadian member of parliament for Notre-Dame-de-GrbceLachine, Marlene Jennings, announced on behalf of the Minister for International Cooperation, Susan Whelan. |
 | | Jennings, who announced the contribution in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, said the money would be channeled through the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). |
 | | Another $5 million will provide budgetary support to reinforce implementation of the poverty reduction strategy in key areas like integration of the strategy into the official budget, public finance management, public sector reform, decentralization and good governance. |
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