Ghana Private Sector Competitiveness Program
The Ghana Private Sector Competitiveness Program (GPSCP) aims at supporing inclusive and sustainable growth through enhanced trade and competitiveness and creation of more and better jobs. The program will address constraints to private sector competitiveness and job creation, which currently exist at all levels, from different angles.
| Región/País | Tema | Período | Presupuesto |
|---|---|---|---|
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Ghana |
Comercio sostenibile Private sector and entrepreneurship |
01.12.2017
- 31.12.2021 |
CHF 12'551'000
|
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale technische Zusammenarbeit
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Sector según clasificación del comité de ayuda al desarrollo de la OCDE AGRICULTURA
Sub-Sector según clasificación del comité de ayuda al desarrollo de la OCDE Agricultural inputs
Temas transversales El proyecto promueve la biodiversidad.
El proyecto tiene en cuenta la igualdad de género como tema transversal.
El proyecto tiene en cuenta la democratización, la buena gobernanza y los derechos humanos como tema transversal.
Número de proyecto UR01042
| Contexto |
While Ghana has made impressive economic progress over the past decades, growth has been faltering recently. Stagnating competitiveness, lack of economic diversification and weak job creation are among the main underlying challenges facing the economy. Improving the competitiveness and diversification of the economy is critical to make growth more inclusive and sustainable. This requires substantial institutional and regulatory reforms to improve the trade and business environment, increased private sector investments and productivity growth in the non-resource private sector and a better skilled labor force. |
| Objetivos |
The overall goal of the program is to contribute to an inclusive and sustainable growth through enhance trade and competitiveness and creation of more and better jobs. |
| Efectos a medio plazo |
remove overarching and industry specific regulatory constraints to growth through improved business regulation and investment policy and promotion framework improve competitiveness and productivity of actors in the cashew and palm oil sectors in a sustainable way (especially smallholer farmers and small and medium enterprises) enhance and structure the necessary skills of the labor force in cashew, oil palm and construction through a demand oriented training delivery |
| Resultados |
Resultados previstos: Input to economy wide business regulation revision provided Input to investment policy and promotion framework revision provided Sector specific regulatory reviews conducted Supply chain actors capacitated to increase yields, profitability and income Sustainability standards promoted along the supply chains to improve competitiveness Gender equality and youth participation along the value chains strengthened Sector organization in cashew and palm oil supported Stakeholders capacitated to improve framework conditions in skills development Local business actors strengthened to engage in skills development Expansion of Competency based training approach assisted Implementation of courses (agro-processing, construction) facilitated |
| Dirección / Officina Federal responsable |
SECO |
| Crédito |
Cooperación al desarrollo |
| Contrapartes del proyecto |
Contraparte del contrato |
| Presupuesto | Fase en curso Presupuesto suizo CHF 12'551'000 Presupuesto actual suizo ya emitido CHF 0 Presupuesto inclusive contrapartes del proyecto CHF 53'866'000 |
| Fases del proyecto | Fase 1 01.12.2017 - 31.12.2021 (Fase en curso) |