Region of Focus (ROF) - Ghana
Ghana is strategically located within the West Africa and has easy access to the ECOWAS Market. The location of Ghana, coupled with the relative stability that the country has enjoyed over the past years makes Ghana a regional trade and investment into the West African sub region. It also attracts FDI and extensive support from multilateral agencies.
Ghana's economy is predominantly agricultural, with 60% of the population engaged in subsistence agriculture. The biggest cash crop is cocoa. Rice, coffee, cassava, peanuts, corn, shea nuts, and bananas are also widely grown. Fishing and lumbering are important, although inadequate roads and facilities have hindered the development of the timber industry.
Minerals (most importantly gold, but also industrial diamonds, bauxite, and manganese) are found in the north, south, and coastal regions. There is some offshore petroleum exploitation, and exploration for additional reserves identified significant deposits in 2007. Imports include capital equipment, petroleum, and foodstuffs. The Netherlands, Nigeria, Great Britain, the United States, and China are Ghana's major trade partners.
Why Ghana?
- A stable political environment within the West African sub region, with established democratic institutions and systems to ensure good governance of the country.
- Abundant, adaptable and an easily trainable force.
- Strategic and central location within West Africa provides access to the ECOWAS market with an estimated population of 250 million people.
- An already existing industrial base ranging from heavy engineering to precision industries, electronics, agro processing, plastics and metal fabrication, clothing and textiles, manufacturing, jewelry production and wood processing.
- Small and Medium Business Enterprises.
- Infrastructure Development.
- Health and Education including the management of healthcare for private and public sector.
- Management Services to help companies develop systems and processes.
- Power Generation and Independent Power Projects.
- Sewage and refuse disposal/recycling.
- Real Estate Housing Development…..Much more projects to engage!!!