Beyond compliance

A green label does not make a project financeable. Lenders back developers who can show, with evidence, that environmental, social and governance risks are being managed, and that capability must be built inside the organisation long before financiers arrive.

Every public project begins with a promise. The real test comes later, when the promise meets budgets, contracts, boards and auditors.

Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) establishes a Free Trade Area among the 55 member states of the African Union. It is expected that the AfCFTA will ease the flow of goods, services, and investment across a market of more than 1.4 billion people. 

“When I came to school, I was always wondering how I was going to mingle with people due to the stigma.

I have taken a particular interest in the leadership of Ghana’s Chief Justice, His Lordship Justice Paul Kwadwo Baffoe-Bonnie.

Imagine a house is advertised at GH¢3 million. You inspect it, like the location, admire the finishing and tell yourself you will negotiate. Then the agent calls: “Good news. The owner has reduced the price to GH¢2.7 million.”

You started your business to sell a product, deliver a service, or solve a problem you understood better than anyone else.

A business may be making sales every day and still be moving steadily towards failure. The shop may be busy, customers may be paying, and money may be entering the bank account.