Ghana creates environment for business to thrive

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28-08-08

GHANA has made enormous progress in creating an enabling environment for business to thrive, the Manager of Employers Training at the International Labour Organisation (ILO), Mr Arnout De Koster, has said.
According to him, the fact that Ghana has placed sixth among 46 African nations in the area of doing business, demonstrates the progress made by the country thus far.
Mr Koster stated this at the opening of a three-day workshop on Effective Employers’ Organisations being attended by representatives of the Ghana Employers Association, Council of Indigenous Business Association (CIBA) and the Ghana Chamber of Mines.
He said the issues of starting business and employers legislation were some of the challenges confronting the country, and that the workshop was, among other things, aimed at addressing those challenges.
He said the ILO, a United Nations body, was not only composed of governments but also of employers associations and trade unions.
The President of the Ghana Employers Association (GEA), Mr Charles Cofie, said employers organisations were an essential part of every country and representing business interests with a strong voice.
He said further that employers organisation had challenges and constraints inhibiting their effectiveness and that addressing them would require enhanced skills, competence, desirable behaviour and capacity building.
He mentioned that the GEA had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Dutch counterpart through which the Dutch would provide technical as well as financial assistance to the association.
Mr Cofie said also that the Dutch had presented the GEA with $25,000, and that the money would support the association’s data advocacy programme.
A representative of the Dutch Employers Corporation Programme, Mr Andrew Moore, said the programme was to provide development assistance to developing countries.