Plan International Ghana in partnership with Global Affairs Canada is empowering rural women in Ghana through an initiative dubbed “Women’s Innovation for Sustainable Enterprise” (WISE). The WISE project is built on the inspiration, power and potential of Ghanaian women entrepreneurs and women-owned businesses and seeks to contribute to increase realization of right to economic empowerment, …
In a unique move to build the digital capacities of job seekers, the Ghanaian-German Centre for Jobs, Migration and Reintegration (GGC), in collaboration with the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations has launched another flagship programme – ICT Skills Training for Students and Job Seekers – to equip job seekers and students with job-ready transferrable …
International impact investor, Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P), says it is looking forward to supporting more Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) that are vital to Ghana’s long-term economic growth. The firm has invested 3 million euros in a leading private healthcare provider, New Crystal Health Services (NCHS), to make quality healthcare accessible and affordable to …
Barclays Bank Ghana, part of the Absa Group, says it has designed a set of products and services aimed at bringing more women owners of small and medium enterprises (SME) into the digital financial space. According to the bank, women were a major part of the SME market and played a critical role in the …
French President Emmanuel Macron and G7 leaders on Sunday approved a package totalling $251 million in support of the African Development Bank’s Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) initiative to support women entrepreneurs in Africa. “I am particularly proud, as the current G7 president, that the programme we are supporting today, the AFAWA …
After entering into a year-long partnership in July, not-for-profit organization Invest in Africa and GCB Bank have held a forum on financing options for Small and Medium-scale Enterprises (SMEs). Access to finance is a major challenge faced by small and medium-scale enterprises in Ghana, primarily because lenders are skeptical about the …
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Generating funds to either start a business or expand a business operation has mainly been the key challenge faced by today’s business entrepreneurs in Ghana and most part of developing countries. Thankfully, the Ghana Alternative Market (GAX) has been launched to ameliorate this problem in Ghana. With Ghana’s market size growing and opportunities in the …
Countries require $2.4 tln to meet needs, U.N. goals Investments fall short under current trend Fighting corruption, reforms key to attracting capital A group of 10 African nations, including some of the continent’s rising economic stars, will fall $1 trillion short of the infrastructure financing required to meet U.N. development goals by 2040, a study …
The consistent growth of the country’s cocoa sector has attracted massive foreign investments into an industry that has been the backbone of Ghana’s economy for decades, President of the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) Richard Scobey has said. The COCOBOD secured a US$1.3billion syndicated loan with some 25 international banks to fund cocoa purchases for the …