According to the most recent Afrobarometer study, the majority of Ghanaians think the government has handled the COVID-19 pandemic response properly, but a comparable percentage think that some or a significant amount of the money allocated for the response have been diverted due to corruption.
In the April 2022 poll, a quarter of participants said that the epidemic had caused one or more members of their families to lose their jobs or main sources of income.
Few Ghanaians reported that the government had provided their home any pandemic relief aid, and many said that the allocation was unjust.
principal results of the survey
As of April 2022, 2% of Ghanaians claimed that a member of their home had contracted COVID-19 or tested positive for the virus, while roughly a quarter (26%) stated that a member of their household had lost a job, company, or principal source of income as a result of the pandemic (Figure 1).
Three-fourths (76%) of Ghanaians stated overall that the government handled the COVID-19 pandemic response "pretty well" or "very well" (Figure 2).
o Smaller majorities indicated satisfaction with the government's efforts to guarantee that health facilities had enough resources (61%) and to limit interruptions to children's schooling (59%), which were particular parts of the pandemic response. Only 50% of respondents applauded the government's efforts to assist needy households (Figure 3).
Only two in ten Ghanaians (20%) stated their household had received COVID-19 disaster help from the government, while eight in ten (80%) indicated they had not (Figure 4).
Only 31% of respondents thought the COVID-19 relief was allocated "somewhat properly" or "very fairly," while 67% said it was unfair (Figure 5).
Additionally, more than seven out of ten (72%) think that "some" (28%) or "a lot" (44%) of the funds allocated for the COVID-19 response were diverted due to corruption (Figure 6).
A nationally representative sample of 2,369 adult Ghanaians was questioned by the Ghana Center for Democratic Development and the Afrobarometer team in April 2022. Results at the national level from a sample of this size have a +/-2 percentage point margin of error.
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