Access Bank Ghana has held its first SMEs capacity building workshop for the year, in Tamale. It was on the theme ‘Boosting digital skills for emerging opportunities’. The workshop brought together SMEs from across the Northern Regional capital, to equip them with emerging trends on digitalization for business growth.
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On behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), KfW Development Bank is set to provide debt financing in the form of a subordinated loan totaling €46.5million to the Development Bank Ghana (DBG).
This is to enable the Development Bank Ghana to provide longer-term financing for...
GCB Bank PLC continues to show its strong commitment to empowering the youth and SMEs, especially in view of the devastating economic effects from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The bank has disbursed GH¢100,000 as support for Resilient Ghana to provide a platform that challenges and empowers the youth to identify, create...
"Will you give me money?" Entrepreneurs often ask this question when introduced to Entrepreneurship support programmes such as Incubators and Accelerators - forgetting that there is much more to business support than pouring in funds. SME Accelerators provide intensive and time-limited business support for cohorts of start-ups and scale-ups....
Determination is indeed a wake-up call to the human will. After senior high school it is the dream of almost all graduates to further their education, enter into a university, read their preferred courses, finish with a good class and find a reputable job.
But what if your journey does...
Sixty Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) across the country are set to benefit from a German government-funded grant that seeks to create sustainable jobs
The SME grant scheme for job creation, ‘Invest for Jobs’, is an initiative of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and implemented by...
Products boldly seeking the attention of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are hard to find. Will the returns justify the effort to promote products targeted at the grassroots foundation of our economy? Is the action not better directed to larger businesses? One may ask.
To answer this – it's...
HOPin Academy, a Tamale-based social organisation, is set to support some 50 entrepreneurs with seed funding of GH¢2,000 each in a bid to enhance the entrepreneurship ecosystem in northern Ghana.
The grant funding of GH¢100,000 is from the State Chancellery of North-Rhine Westphalia under a project dubbed ‘The Grow Northern...
Globally, it is estimated that approximately 1.3 billion people are working within the MSME subsector. However, huge number (between 414-466 million) of these MSMEs are not formalized. These are unsurprising statistics, especially when viewed in the context of emerging economies like Africa. This is because, in most part of...
as GEA signs grant agreement to disburse GH¢7m to 74 businesses
Government has invested over US$160million in stimulus packages to cushion the country’s micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) from the devastating impact of the coronavirus pandemic, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ghana Enterprises Agency (GEA), Kosi Yankey-Ayeh, has...