MSMEs

03 Aug

National AfCFTA Coordination Office Launches Ghana Expo 2023- Tanzania

Wontumi1BusinessAfCFTA, Ghana, MSMEs

As part of Ghana’s Strategy for boosting trade with the rest of Africa the government, the government established the National African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Coordination Office under the Ministry of Trade and Industry. The NCO has over the last 2 years implemented strategies designed to create awareness of Ghanaian stakeholders and Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) and to prepare them to participate on the African market. In October 2022 Ghana alongside, Kenya, Cameroon, Egypt, Rwanda, Mauritius and Tanzania participated in the Guided Trade initiative in Collaboration with the AfCFTA Secretariat. This GTI signalled the beginning of commercially…

24 Sep

SNV facilitates job fair to create employment opportunities for Ghanaian youth

Wontumi2BusinessMSMEs, SNV

‘GrEEn Job Fair’, a programme designed by the Netherlands Development Organization, SNV, to connect prospective employees to potential employers, had been held at Dentin in the Offinso Municipality of the Ashanti Region. The programme, in line with the ‘Boosting Green Employment and Enterprise Opportunities in Ghana (GrEEn) Project’, is also to create the requisite platform for Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) to display their products.The entrepreneurship session with green idea validation dealt with business certification, registration and standardization.As part of the programme, the participants, mostly youth, including university and Senior High School graduates, were taken through some skills development…