Tag: MSMEs

To improve the incomes and resilience of communities in rural areas, the World Bank approved today a $150 million grant from the International Development...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has launched the Ghana Enterprises Agency (GEA), formerly National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI), to enhance the regulation...

The investment will strengthen debt facilities by Lendable Inc. while offering increased security to micro, small and medium enterprises recovering from the pandemic FSD Africa...

More than 3,700 Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the Assin Central Municipality have benefited from the stimulus fund set up by the...

The National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) has signed a memorandum of understanding with four strategic organizations to help accelerate the growth of...

The Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Robert Ahomka Lindsey has launched the Nkosuo program, a partnership between the National Board for Small Scale...

More than 120,000 micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) owners have so far received the special fund set up by the government to cushion...

Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (MSMEs) in the Volta Region have started receiving their share of Government’s coronavirus package for businesses. ...

Ghanaian Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) are to benefit from a new Academy that will support African MSMEs to address challenges of access...

The National Board for Small Scale Industries(NBSSI) in partnership with the MasterCard Foundation has launched the Young Africa Works Project in Takoradi. The project, which...

Mr Dela Gadzanku, the Volta/Eastern/Oti Chair of the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI), has appealed to the government to speed up the disbursement of...

Professor Felix Ankomah Asante, a Consultant to the Private Enterprise Federation (PEF) Ghana, has said there is priority need for internal capital mobilisation to...

The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF) on Friday approved a $69 million grant to support Ghana’s efforts to tackle the...

Invest In Africa (IIA), an enterprise that accelerates the growth of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Africa, has partnered the Mastercard Foundation...

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) and the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to support the...

Mrs Elsie Addo Awadzi, the Second Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, said critical public-private sector investments in infrastructure over the medium-term will...

Mrs Elsie Addo Awadzi, the Second Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, has urged Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) to reposition to...

The National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) has said the country needs right data to identify and give support to Ghana's Micro, Small...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has launched a One billion Ghana Cedi stimulus package to provide relief to Micro, Small and Medium Enteprises (MSMEs),...

The National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) has held a meeting with relevant associations to discuss the government’s Coronavirus Alleviation Programme Business Support...

The National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) partners Mastercard Foundation, to support micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and start-ups in Ghana during...

Kenyan entrepreneurs Caroline Mutabacho and Diana Ochola, started a beauty product enterprise three years ago with little experience in production, marketing and managing the...

Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in the e-commerce sector of 6 Central America countries are set to reap greater benefits from participation...

Mr. Victor Anderson Hodibert, Head of Tourism Department at the Takoradi Technical University has called for the decentralisation of policies on tourism to commensurate...

The International Trade Centre (ITC) and Visa (NYSE: V) has launched a partnership to increase the participation of Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs)...

Management of the University for Development Studies (UDS) has launched the UDS Business Innovation and Incubation Centre (BIIC) to support alumni of the university...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has called on financial markets to increase affordable loans and provide more diverse and innovative financing instruments to Africa’s...

Mastercard commits to empowering over 150,000 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) in Kenya within 2017 by giving them access to Masterpass QR. The...

Kemi Adeosun, Minister of Finance, disclosed this in Abuja, Nigeria's capital city when she received the newly-revised National Tax Policy (NTP) document. ...

In?its?effort?towards?bridging?the?unemployment?gap?in?Nigeria,?The?Small?and?Medium?Enterprises?Development?Agency?of?Nigeria?(SMEDAN)?created?a?total?of?340,560?jobs?in?2014?for?the?teeming?youths?and?women?as?the?number?of?Micro?Small?and?Medium?Enterprises?(MSMEs)?in?the?country?reach?37million. Bature?Umar?Masari,?Director?General/?CEO,?SMEDAN?disclosed?this?at?the?two?day?MASTERCLASS,?with?the?theme??Essential?Touch?to?Building?Professional?and?Personal?Style??organised?by?the?Global?Women?Investors?and?Innovators?Network?(GWIIN),?held?in?Abuja?on?Monday. He?stated?that?there?are?37?million?(MSMEs)?in?Nigeria?employing?59.7?million?persons,?(representing?about?84?percent?of?the?labour?force)?and?contributing?48.5?percent?to?GDP.?The?MSMEs?contributes?7.3?percent?to?export.??The?findings?will?definitely?be?very?useful?to?MSMEs?operators,?students,?researchers?and?educational?institutions,??he?stressed. ?It?will?interest?you?to?know?that?SMEDAN?is?desirous?that?most?of?the?Enterprises?in?the?Micro?category?(which?presently?constitute?99.8?per?cent?of?(MSMEs),?grow?to?Small?and?subsequently?Medium?Enterprises.?In?this?way,?more?jobs?would?be?created?and?contribution?to?GDP?would?be?enhanced.? He?noted?that?the?Federal?Government?introduced?the?National?Enterprise?Development?Programme?(NEDEP)?to?holistically?address?the?challenges?militating?against?the?optimal?performance?of?MSMEs?towards?employment?generation,?wealth?creation?and?poverty?alleviation. ?NEDEP?implementation?structure?involves?the?synergy?with?SMEDAN?(Entrepreneurship?training),?Industrial?Training?Fund?(Industrial?&?Vocational?skills)?and?Bank?of?Industry?(access?to?finance).??Masari?noted. He?said?that?the?objectives?of??the?agency?includes?generating?a?minimum?of?one?million?jobs?annually,?revitalising?the?rural?economy,?improving?employment?opportunities,?creating?wealth?and?alleviating?poverty?in?rural?areas?in?Nigeria,?stressing?that?these?would?be?achieved?through?the?establishment?of?sustainable?MSMEs?in?the?774?Local?Government?Areas?(LGAs)?based?on?comparative?and?competitive?advantages. He?noted?that?entrenchment?of?entrepreneurial?culture,?industrialisation?of?rural?areas,?enhanced?industrial?cluster?development,?increased?MSMEs?contribution?to?GDP?and?increased?export?potentials,?elimination?of?youth?restiveness,?militancy?and?other?social?vices,?as?well?as?entrenchment?of?social?security?system?in?Nigeria?were?among?the?major?objectives. The?DG?stated;??It?is?with?great?delight?that?I?inform?you?that?SMEDAN?accords?special?attention?to?Women?Entrepreneurship?through?its?Women?Entrepreneurship?Development?Programme?(WEDP)?and?Rural?Women?Enterprises?Development?Programme?(RUWEDEP).?