Does your business need support in business planning, export-readiness, accessing finance, personnel training? Following is a list of organizations in Ghana that can help you grow and strengthen your business. Do you know of a great local organization that’s not listed? Please let us know at info@investorswithoutborders.net.
• African Investment Management Services Limited
Established in Accra, Ghana in 1994, AIMS Ltd is focused on assisting medium size businesses and export ready companies, in Ghana and eventually West African to become competent in administration and financial management. http://www.aimslimited.com/
• The Association of Ghana Industries
The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) is a not-for-profit organisation, registered in Ghana. AGI was established 1958 by a group of indigenous manufacturers, led by Dr (Mrs) Esther Ocloo. Today, AGI has more than 1000 members from all over Ghana and is considered to be the leading voice of the private sector. http://www.agighana.org/index.php
• Busy Internet & The BusyIncubator Program
Established in Ghana in 2001, BusyInternet is the largest privately owned & operated ICT centre in Africa. With a unique mission to provide both commercial services as well as social development. BusyInternet launched its BusyIncubator program early 2005, with support from the Worldbank, with special funding from the Government of Japan. The first of its kind in West Africa, this small business incubation program is designed to increase the chances of survival of young companies by providing them with a good opportunity to grow in a supportive and nurturing environment. http://www.busyinternet.com/
• EMPRETEC Foundation
An integrated capacity-building program of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), EMPRETEC promotes the creation of sustainable support structures that help promising entrepreneurs build innovative and internationally competitive small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). EMPRETEC also encourages the formation of mutually beneficial business linkages among SMEs as well as with transnational corporations. http://www.unctadxi.org/templates/Page____6519.aspx
• Good Morning Africa (GMA)
Good Morning Africa is a US-based non-profit that targets Africa’s most promising, socially-responsible and innovative entrepreneurs in order to trigger high-growth development of their companies and communities. GMA provides access to a full-service repository of technical and capital resources which may be then customized to address any organizational need or impediment one of these entrepreneurs will experience. Operations exist in Ghana, Rwanda, and South Africa. http://www.goodmorningafrica.org/
• IntEnt & The Ghana IntEnt Business Club
IntEnt is a Dutch NGO working to assist migrant entrepreneurs to build viable businesses in their countries of origin through a rigorous and holistic selection and support process that varies depending on the sophistication and need of the individual/group. IntEnt has helped to form 60 businesses now operating in Ghana – a local business club in Ghana is self-organized to further promote business development and industry linkages. http://www.ondernemenoverdegrens.nl/
• National Board of Small Scale Industries
The NBSSI is a non-profit public sector organisation under the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Presidential Special Initiatives and came into being in 1985. NBSSI has its Head Office in Accra, secretariats in all the regional capitals and Business Advisory Centres (BACs) in 110 district capitals. Services offered by the NBSSI include financial, technical and managerial assistance to micro and small enterprises. The apex governmental institution for the promotion and development of the Micro and Small Enterprises (MSE) sector in Ghana. It was established by an Act of the Parliament of the Third Republic of Ghana because government views the sector as having the potential to contribute substantially to reducing the high unemployment and to the growth of the economy of Ghana.
• Premier Resource Consulting
Premier Resource Consulting is a leading Development Planning Consultancy firm within International Technology Planning and Industrialization. Their strategy is focused on providing the critical platform to support SMEs to fully exploit available resources and technological potentials to achieve vibrant micro-level supply response to industry demands in Africa. The professionals of FPQ Resources and the associates are grouped into two Competence Centers: 1) Technology and Industrial Systems Planning; and 2) Business Development Services and Private Sector Development and Promotion. http://premierresourceconsulting.com/index.php
• The West African Trading Hub
The West Africa Trade Hub is a USAID-funded center created to boost West Africa’s trade competitiveness. USAID/West Africa opened the West Africa Trade Hub in January 2003. WATH builds trade capacity in the region, provides technical assistance to the private sector, develops exports in specific growth sectors and helps government and businesses take advantage of the U.S. African Growth and Opportunity Act. http://www.watradehub.com/
• Opportunity International
A leader in microfinance, Opportunity International is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping the poor. Opportunity International can refer clients whose capital needs exceed that which they can meet through their microfinance mission. http://www.opportunity.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?pid=193&srcid=-2
• Technoserve Ghana
An NGO founded in 1968, now operating in 15 countries, helps entrepreneurial people capitalize on solid market opportunities, providing the support and training they need to successfully run and grow the businesses on their own. Technoserve helps individuals and groups to: develop business plans; link with markets and sources of capital; improve management skills; produce higher-quality products and services, and operate more efficiently. http://www.technoserve.org/work_impact/locations/ghana.aspx
