The Ghanaian-German Centre for Jobs, Migration and Reintegration (GGC) in partnership with the International Labour Organisation (ILO), Ghana has organised a two-week training for budding entrepreneurs and individuals looking to start their own businesses.
The training dubbed ‘Start and Improve Your Business’ brought together 60 young entrepreneurs and individuals seeking to start their own businesses.
The business management training programme focused on using business as a strategy to empower men and women entrepreneurs with the business skills they need to create more employment and achieve sustainable and inclusive growth.
Participants were taken through intensive packages which responds to several stages of business development.
These include enabling potential entrepreneurs to develop concrete business ideas, bankable business plans, improving plans in buying, stock control, record keeping, marketing, human resource management, business growth strategy, among others.
A key part of the training was the business game which is a practical simulation exercise which enabled participants to understand the realities of starting and operating successful businesses.
It is played during trainings where participants are linked to the real life of an entrepreneur and are challenged to plan, organize, produce, compete, negotiate and cooperate for ensuring good business results.
Head of the Ghanaian-German Centre, Benjamin Woesten stated that “we are happy to partner with the ILO in ensuring that the next generation of young business entrepreneurs get it right. We do this with the conviction that youth entrepreneurship is pivotal to their own economic independence and to an extent, dividends for Ghana’s economy. To get dividends, however, we must invest. This training is a testament of our commitment to employment promotion and job creation. One way to do this is to invest in the people who have and are demonstrating potential to employ others”.
On her part, the National Project Coordinator for ILO Ghana, Akua Ofori Asumadu encouraged the participants to put into practice what they had been taught.
She also assured them that the ILO and GGC will be engaging them from time to time to monitor their progress in their respective businesses and advise where appropriate. She also encouraged them to put into practice the decent work principle.
About GIZ
As a provider of international cooperation services for sustainable development and international education work, GIZ is dedicated to building a future worth living around the world.
GIZ has over 50 years of experience in a wide variety of areas, including economic development and employment, energy and the environment, and peace and security.
The diverse expertise of our federal enterprise is in demand around the globe, with the German Government, European Union institutions, the United Nations, the private sector and governments of other countries all benefiting from our services. We work with businesses, civil society actors and research institutions, fostering successful interaction between development policy and other policy fields and areas of activity.
The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) is our main commissioning party.
Currently, GIZ promotes sustainable development in Ghana via about 50 programmes and projects. Our activities cover currently four priority areas: Economic Development, Agriculture, Governance and Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency.
Additionally, our portfolio extends to other areas such as environment, peace and security. Another focus of GIZ’s work is linking business interests with development-policy goals.
Most of the programmes and projects we support in Ghana have successfully brought together national and international private companies, the public sector, and civil society groups to collaborate on development initiatives.