DISTRIBUTION OF ABFA TO PRIORITY AREAS, 2011-2016
Priority Area |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
TOTAL |
% |
Amount (GH¢) |
Amount (GH¢) |
Amount (GH¢) |
Amount (GH¢) |
Amount (GH¢) |
Amount (GH¢) | |||
Expenditure and Amortisation of Loans for Oil and Gas Infrastructure |
20,000,000 |
100,000,000 |
137,920,847 |
163,084,572 |
439,234,363.92 |
- |
860,239,783 |
26.02 |
Agriculture Modernisation |
13,147,652 |
72,471,824 |
13,604,329 |
170,624,180 |
59,544,174.03 |
27,671,280.88 |
357,063,440 |
10.80 |
Road and Other Infrastructure |
227,641,768 |
232,403,269 |
372,074,147 |
215,691,357 |
483,347,384.00 |
199,447,492.13 |
1,730,605,417 |
52.35 |
Capacity Building (including Oil and Gas) |
750,000 |
111,959,738 |
20,183,359 |
- |
142,074,292.19 |
83,037,283.91 |
358,004,673 |
10.83 |
Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) | - | - | - | - | - | 967,000.00 | 967,000.00 | 0.31 |
TOTAL |
261,539,420 |
516,834,831 |
543,782,682 |
549,400,109 |
1,124,200,214.14 |
310,156,056.92 |
3,305,913,313 |
100 |
Source: PIAC Construct, 2017 from MoF figures
The four priority areas selected for spending of the ABFA between 2011 and 2013 and repeated for the period 2014-2016 were Expenditure and Amortisation of Loans for Oil and Gas Infrastructure, Agriculture Modernisation, Roads and Other Infrastructure and Capacity Building (including Oil and Gas). Over the period 2011 to 2016, Roads and Other Infrastructure received the highest allocation of 52.35% of ABFA whereas Capacity Building got the lowest of 10.83% of ABFA. Indeed in 2014, Capacity Building did not receive any allocation from the ABFA. An amount of Ghc 3.305 billion has been distributed to the priority areas between 2011 and 2016. The priority areas selected to benefit from ABFA funding for the period 2017-2019 are Agriculture, Physical Infrastructure and Service Delivery in Education, Physical Infrastructure and Service Delivery in Health and Road, Rail and other critical Infrastructure Development.
ALLOCATION OF 2014/2015 ANNUAL BUDGET FUNDING AMOUNTS
PRIORITY AREA |
2016 TOTAL (GHȻ) |
Percentage (%) |
2015 TOTAL(GHȻ) |
Percentage (%) |
2014 TOTAL (GHȻ) |
Percentage (%) |
|
|
- |
439,234,363.92 |
39.07083 |
163,084,572 |
29.68412 |
||
|
483,347,384.00 |
42.99478 |
215,691,357 |
39.25943 |
|||
o/w Roads and Highways |
|
15.476606 |
77,138,909.37 |
6.86167 |
128,218,529.56 |
23.33791 |
|
o/w Energy Infrastructure |
43,460,000 | 13.968749 |
85,948,762.29 |
7.645325 |
75,441,859 |
13.73168 |
|
o/w Water Infrastructure |
23,480, 000 | 7.546853 |
40,613,385.03 |
3.612647 |
- |
- |
|
o/w Transport Infrastructure |
2,000,000 | 0.642832 |
41,799,389.39 |
3.718145 |
- |
- |
|
o/w Health Infrastructure |
- |
2,224,505.58 |
0.197875 |
- |
- |
||
o/w Education Infrastructure |
- |
46,594,996.84 |
4.144724 |
12,030,969.04 |
2.189837 |
||
o/w Transfers into the Ghana Investment and Infrastructure Fund (GIIF) |
68,050,000 | 21.872374 |
189,027,435.50 |
16.81439 |
- |
- |
|
o/w Communication Infrastructure | 14,310,000 | 4.599466 | - | - | |||
3. AGRICULTURE MODERNISATION |
59,544,174.03 |
5.296581 |
170,624,180 |
31.05645 |
|||
o/w Food and Agric Infrastructure |
27,671,280.88 |
|
28,998,746.83 |
2.5795 |
51,473,290 |
9.368999 |
|
o/w Counterpart Funding for MCA Compact II and others |
29,745,923.00 |
2.645963 |
- |
- |
|||
o/w Fisheries and Aquaculture Infrastructure |
799,504.20 |
0.071118 |
119,150,889.60 |
21.68745 |
|||
4. CAPACITY BUILDING (INCLUDING OIL AND GAS) |
142,074,292.19 |
12.63781 |
- |
- |
|||
0/w Human Resource |
83,037,283.91 |
|
142,074,292.19 |
12.63781 |
|
- |
|
5. PUBLIC INTEREST AND ACCOUNTABILITY COMMITTEE (PIAC) | 967,000.00 | 0.31 | |||||
Total |
1,124,200,214.14 |
|
549,400,109.40 |
|
Source: PIAC Construct from MoF figures, 2015, 2016 and 2017
*GIIF: Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund
Expenditure and Amortisation of Loans for Oil and Gas Infrastructure saw a 10% increase in allocation between 2014 and 2015. Under allocation to roads and other infrastructure, Roads and Highways, Energy and Education Infrastructure received funding for both 2014 and 2015 whilst water, transport and Health Infrastructure received funding for only 2015. Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund (GIIF) established by Act 877 of 2014 received its first allocation from the ABFA in 2015. Virtually all (98.43%) of the 2015 allocations made to the Capacity Building Priority Area went to support various interventions in the educational sector with the largest share of the disbursements totalling GH¢94.74 million (66.68%) going to fund a multiplicity of social interventions (capitation grant, feeding grants, examination subsidy, progressively free SHS, etc.) in the sector. There was no allocation to the Amortisation of Loans on Oil and Gas Infrastructure in 2016. Apart from Roads and Other Infrastructure which had a breakdown of expenditure to various sub-sectors in 2016, the entire amount allocated for Capacity Building was transferred to the Scholarship Secretariat for the payment of scholarship claims. The amount allocated for Agriculture Modernisation in 2016 was spent on Irrigation Infrastructure and the National Fertiliser Subsidy Programme.
DISTRIBUTION OF ABFA TO PRIORITY AREAS, 2017 - 2018
Priority Areas | 2017 | 2018 | TOTAL | % |
---|---|---|---|---|
Amount (GH¢) | Amount (GH¢) | |||
Physical Infrastructure and Service Delivery in Education |
202,379,893.20 | 419,871,012.44 | 622,250,905.64 | 53.64 |
Agriculture | 49,070,181.2 | 126,185,356.21 | 175,255,537.41 | 15.11 |
Physical Infrastructure and Service Delivery in Health |
8,660,362.73 | 22,702,127.91 | 31,362,490.64 | 2.70 |
Road, Rail and other Critical Infrastructure Development |
41,617,767.7 | 255,365,118.69 | 296,982,886.39 | 25.60 |
Transfer to The Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund | 29,220,365.22 | 0.00 | 29,220,365.22 | 2.52 |
Transfer To The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) | 1,345,078.00 | 3,529,951.00 | 4,875,029.00 | 0.42 |
TOTAL | 332,293,648.05 | 827,653,566.25 | 1,159,947,214.305 | 100 |
Source: PIAC Reports, 2017 & 2018
Among the priority areas, Infrastructure and Service Delivery in Education received the highest share of 54 percent of the ABFA with the roads, Rail and other Critical Infrastructure receiving 26 percent. An amount of GHc403 million of ABFA was unaccounted for in 2017 while GHc252 million was unaccounted for in 2018.