A not-for-profit international development organization, SNV Ghana has been lauded for its contributions to promoting GrEEn businesses in the Western region.
At a 3-day GrEEn regional trade show in Takoradi, 68 businesses across three core sectors—agri-food, energy, and water—exhibited their green and eco-friendly products, ranging from food and cosmetics to solar-power gadgets, among others.
Delivering an address, the Regional Director of the Ghana Export and Promotions Authority,GEPA, Ekow Entsil Mensah, said SNV is helping GEPA achieve its mandate under Pillar 3 of the NEDS.
The NEDs, he mentioned, rest on three strategic pillars: to expand and diversify the supply base, to improve business regulations, and to build and expand the required human capital.
” Permit me to emphasize here that SNV is strategically helping GEPA achieve our mandate in the Western Region under pillar 3 of the NEDS. In 2022, SNV sponsored 20 SMEs dominated by women to undergo our export school.
This year they are sponsoring 10 SMEs, again 70 percent are women. Mr. Chairman, please help me applaud SNV for their support towards SMEs in the region, after all the best is always and still in the West,”
He asked, SNV to reinvent the wheel and support more businesses in the next project to meet international standards.
The Western Regional Director of the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Isaac Yankson said, boosting green employment and enterprise opportunities in the region has become an integral part of his outift’s implementation role towards industrial transformation and development.
Adding that, the ministry is championing regional integration in Africa to expand the use of green technologies.
