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March 11, 2016
Conference on MSE promotion
held at Breman Asikuma
Breman Asikuma (C/R), Nov. 20, GNA - The Rural Enterprise
Project has held a one-day stakeholders’ conference on Micro
and Small Scale Enterprise (MSE) promotion at Breman Asikuma
to coordinate its development and growth.
About 60 traders, bankers and managers of small-scale
enterprise from Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa, Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam
and Mfantseman districts attended.
In an address read for him at the conference, Mr Kwasi
Attah-Antwi, Project Coordinator, said the other objective
of the conference was to forge effective stakeholder
networking in the MSE.
He said since the inception of the Project in 2003, it has
reached out to more than 66,422 persons, including 22,887
women, with various project services.
Mr Attah-Antwi said 34,000 people were trained in various
community-based skills, small business management, improved
production process, occupational safety and environmental
management, banking culture and marketing.
"In the area of rural financial services, the participating
banks have disbursed 6.3 billion cedis credit funds to
support over 2,300 micro and small enterprises, of which 58
per cent were businesses managed by women.”
Mr Richard Borteng, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer of the
Rural Enterprises Project II, urged participants to forge
effective partnership with the District Assemblies to
promote the MSEs at the district level.
GNA
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