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Ghana ready to host Over 500 investors
Accra, April 11, Ghanadot/GNA – Ghana is
ready to host the rest of the world during the World
Investment Forum meetings, Chief Executive of Ghana
Investment Promotion Centre, Mr Robert Ahomka-Lindsay said
on Friday.
Briefing the media on the forum, Mr. Ahomka-Lindsay, said
the conference would provide a unique platform for
interaction and networking through a series of conferences
and best practice forums between policy makers and
businessmen.
Over 500 businessmen, policy makers and officials of
investment agencies across the world are expected to attend
the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA)
Conference and the World Investment Forum (WIF).
The conference, which will take place in Accra between April
18 and 22, will be held to coincide with the United Nations
Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) XII.
The two events being organized jointly by the Ghana
Government through the GIPC, WAIPA and UNCTAD will bring
together the delegates to explore ways to accelerate Foreign
Direct Investment inflows. About 192 Investment Promotion
Agencies will attend.
Mr. Ahomka-Lindsay said the World Investment Forum will
explore future developments in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
flows, new opportunities and challenges for investors, how
global value chains and business linkages are evolving and
how emerging economies can accelerate the development
process through FDI among other things.
He said it was expected that the WIF and the WAIPA
conference would provide a platform for sharing practical
experiences and insights into globalization, the
opportunities and the channels in harnessing these
opportunities.
He said it was an opportunity for Ghana to showcase what it
had to offer the World and urged all businessmen and women
to take advantage of the presence of the many investors
which will be in the country to do business.
To ensure that Ghana gained from the forum, Mr Ahomka-Lindsay
said a Ghana-China trade forum would be held with visiting
Chinese investors to enable the Association of Ghana
Industries, the Ghana Chamber of Commerce and Industry and
the Ghana Free Zone Board to brief them on investment
opportunities in the country.
There will also be business match-making where Ghanaian
entrepreneurs can interact with their foreign counterparts.
He said as part of the arrangement a specific pavilion is
being put up to house Ghanaian companies to enhance the
promotion of partnership.
“There will be a forum where Ghanaian businessmen and their
foreign counterparts will meet and interact,” he added.
The highlight of the forum is the annual WAIPA Awards and
gala dinner at which three investment promotion agencies
would receive awards for their dedication and creativity in
identifying problems, raising awareness among stakeholders,
formulating policy remedies and affecting change.
According to him, the first Women in Business Awards would
also be presented to women-owned businesses that have
benefited from the business development services of EMPRETEC
centres in their respective countries.
GNA
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