Cape Coast, April 27, GNA- The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), has held a day's workshop for entrepreneurs in the Central Region to enable them to come out with investment ideas and plans to enhance their businesses.
The workshop which was organised in Cape Coast was attended by metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies district planning officers, as well as private companies in the region.
The event, which forms part of a nationwide investment sensitisation tour by GIPC aimed at encouraging, promoting and facilitating investments in all sectors of the economy.
The sensitisation workshop also exposed the participants to project proposals, and educated them on the opportunities and the need for joint ventures.
Mr Kofi Sakyiama Antiri, Director in charge of Research and Investment Development at the GIPC said the centre aims at inducing concrete foreign direct investment, promote direct partnership between local and foreign investors and specific investment projects on the international market.
It is also providing direct promotion support to identify local investment projects.
Mr Antiri said a total of 149 investment projects and opportunities have been identified and packaged.
It will compose the portfolio of investment projects spanning agriculture and agric- businesses, manufacturing and industry, tourism, information communication technology, energy, oils and gas services, mining services, infrastructure and financial services.
Mr Antiri asked the entrepreneurs to register with the centre to enable them benefit from the incentives being provided under the Investments Act 478.
The Regional Minister, Mr Samuel Sarpong pointed out that GIPC is the central government's agency mandated to promote, facilitate and encourage investments in Ghana and urged businesses to take advantage of the centre to grow their businesses.
He expressed happiness that the GIPC has created a catalogue of projects both private and public which are available for partnership or funding.
Mr Sarpong said the region has essential potential areas in agriculture and agro-processing, tourism infrastructure.
He tasked district planning officers and other stakeholders to identify individual businesses and help them to develop proposals and business plans which would be translated into increased investments in economic development of the region.
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