Source: Ghana News Agency. By Kodjo Adams | Image source: Jubilee House, FB
President John Dramani Mahama has allocated GH¢100 million to support the operations of the National Research Fund for 2026.
The funding is expected to strengthen research financing, innovation and human capital development in support of national development priorities.
President Mahama announced the allocation at the launch of the National Research Fund in Accra on Tuesday.
He directed the Ministry of Education, in collaboration with the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund), to ensure the transparent, accountable and results-oriented deployment of the resources.
The President said the allocation reflected the Government’s commitment to building a sustainable and credible national research financing ecosystem.
He said the investment would support competitive national research grants, doctoral and postdoctoral research programmes, digital grants management systems, strategic innovation initiatives and priority research programmes aligned with national development objectives.
President Mahama assured stakeholders that the Government would ensure the full and timely implementation of the provisions of the National Research Fund Act, 2020 (Act 1056), relating to the mobilisation and release of resources for research funding.
“I request the Ministries of Finance, Education, Environment, Science and Technology to progressively operationalize the statutory financing framework established under the Fund Act to develop with scale, continuity, and predictability necessary for long-term national impact,” he said.
The President said the African Centres of Excellence Programme had demonstrated the value of structured, competitive and performance-based investment in research.
He cited the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement, the West Africa Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens and the West African Genetic Medicine Centre as institutions that had achieved excellence through sustained investment.
“These institutions have strengthened scientific capacity, developed highly skilled researchers, and produced globally recognized discoveries and enhanced Ghana’s reputation as a centre of research excellence,” he said.
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