WORK HARD TO MAKE MOBD MOST VALUABLE MINISTRY IN GHANA-DR. IBRAHIM MOHAMMED AWAL
The Minister
of Business Development has admonished staff of the ministry to be diligent in
executing their mandate during Workers strategic Planning session held at Ho in
the Volta Region over the weekend.
Alhaji Dr.
Ibrahim Mohammed Awal who was addressing the staff of the ministry and the
National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme-NEIP at a strategic Planning
Session, charged them to work hard to achieve the president’s vision of human
capital development, Entrepreneurship, industrialization and infrastructure
driven economy.
“We must be
innovative with our work and always reason outside the box, do a lot of
thinking and asked more questions. Let’s make the ministry of Business Development
the most valuable government entity”
“Let’s work at
our mandate and our core objective of Innovation driven entrepreneurship” he
said
Dr. Awal took
time to explain the operations and working plan of the ministry to the staff
and charged them to be active at ensuring the vision and projects of the
ministry are well executed.
On behalf of
NEIP, the CEO John kumah also laid bare the programmes and working plan for the
year 2019
The Workers
strategic Planning session was instituted by the Ministry of Business
development to afford the staff opportunity to deliberate on the previous
working year and also plan and strategize for the working year of 2019.
The Ministry
of Business Development and its implementing agency, National Entrepreneurship and
Innovation Programme since their formation by the Akufo-Addos’s Government has efficaciously
among others train 7000 entrepreneurs and funded 1,350 of them with amount
ranging from GHS10,00 to GHS100,000 to either
expand or start their own business.
The
Ministry successfully executed the presidential pitch where ten entrepreneurs who
pitched their businesses before the president won a minimum cash award of GHS45,
000 forty Five Thousand Ghana Cedis.
The ministry
also established Students Entrepreneurship Initiative-SEI which seeks to train
senior High school students with entrepreneurship skills. The programme will be
extended to Tertiary Institutions this years.
The Ministry of business
Development also established disable women in entrepreneurship programme and
also set up a gender desk to support women in entrepreneurship.
The ministry
among others also completed a 75 greenhouse domes at Dawenya with plans to
expand to all the ten regions in Ghana. It also began youth in
industrialization, with plans to set up sub-contracting industries to feed into
one district one factory programme. The ministry will this year, establish a
tractor assembling plant with farming equipment as part of its
industrialization plan.
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