2026 budget should provide report on 2025 education interventions – EduWatch

Education think tank – Africa Education Watch (EduWatch) has called for the 2026 Mid-Year budget to provide an update on all key education interventions announced in the 2025 main and mid-year budgets.

In a social media post sighted by GhanaEducation.org, the Executive Director of EduWatch, Kofi Asare, said the Minister of Finance, Cassiel Ato Forson, must report on interventions including;

• Teacher Dabre Initiative

• Provision of Textbooks for Basic Schools

• Completion of SHS Infrastructure Projects

• Construction of 261 Basic School Buildings

• Furniture for All Programme

• Capitation Grant Disbursement

• No Fee Stress Policy for 1st Year Tertiary

• Free Tertiary Education for PWDs

• Free Sanitary Pads Initiative for Schoolgirls

• Free Senior High School Programme

• National Apprenticeship Programme

• Regional TVET Centres of Excellence

• STEM Education and Infrastructure

• Ghana School Feeding Programme

The Education Watch Director also said the Finance Minister must explain why the central government has not been able to pay or not pay newly recruited teachers who have been teaching since 2024.

“He must also explain to us why it has taken a year to pay or not to pay newly recruited teachers who have been teaching since 2024, and measures taken to prevent any such injustice in future.

These are very important updates before announcing new allocations or interventions for 2026,” he stated in the post.

The Minister for Finance, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, is scheduled to present the 2026 Budget Statement and Economic Policy to Parliament on Thursday, November 13, 2025, detailing the government’s fiscal framework, policy priorities, and spending plans for the coming year.

The budget presentation is expected to highlight measures aimed at consolidating macroeconomic stability, improving domestic revenue mobilisation, and enhancing social protection programmes to cushion vulnerable populations.

Dr Forson has previously indicated that the 2026 budget will prioritise job creation, productivity, and economic expansion, anchored on targeted investments in key growth sectors such as agriculture, manufacturing, and digital innovation.