The Ghana MSME Project
 

The Ghana Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Project aims to enhance the competitive and employment levels of Ghanaian Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). This will be achieved by: (1) building an integrated market access and trade facilitation infrastructure; (2) proactively supporting entrepreneurship development; (3) developing and strengthening, on a sustainable basis, the capacity of local intermediaries to deliver financial and non-financial services to MSMEs, and MSMEs to make productive use of these services; (4) reducing selected business constraints, including technical barriers to trade, faced by MSMEs; (5) providing an enabling environment (access to finance, trade promotion, and trade facilitation infrastructure) to boost increased investments in the MSME sector; and (6) enhancing the facilitation, project development, and implementation roles of the Government.

The project is expected to trigger shared growth and lower poverty levels by enhancing the competitiveness of MSMEs and increasing employment levels in Ghana.

Development Objectives

The project aim is to enhance the competitiveness and employment levels of micro and small enterprises in the Ghanaian economy by:

1. Supporting entrepreneurship development

2. Reducing selected business constraints faced by MSMEs such as technical barriers to trade

3. Building an integrated market access and trade facilitation infrastructure

4. Developing and strengthening the capacity of local intermediaries to deliver financial and non-financial services to MSMEs as well as building the capacity of MSMEs to make productive use of these services

5. Enhancing the enabling environment to stimulate increased investments in MSME sector, through improved access to finance, trade promotion, and trade facilitation.

6. Enhancing the Government's role and capacity to engage in sector specific project development, facilitation and implementation.