The government is planning to build 30 more Business Resource Centres (BRC) across the country.
The government has so far completed the construction of 37 Business Resource Centres (BRC) across the country.
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, who made the announcement at the State of the Nation address on Thursday, said “We have built 37, we are building 30 more”.
The centres are one-stop enterprise support centres that provide full range of business development services, investment facilitation and information services to entrepreneurs, and business enterprises at the district level.
According to President Nana Addo, the centres are helping the country to unearth some exciting, young entrepreneurs.
“The young people that I met during the Presidential Pitch programme, for example, give me a lot of hope, and strike me as having the potential to benefit from the BRCs, the National Entrepreneurship and Innovations Plan, and take on the world,” he noted.
“I was very pleased to be at Kadjebi, in the Oti Region, to commission one of the 37 BRCs that have been completed around the country. In November last year, I commissioned another one at Effiduase Asokore, in the Ashanti Region.
The BRCs are all being equipped with modern IT infrastructure, and networked through a virtual private network, to facilitate efficient delivery of their operations.
The president stressed that the government is aggressively pursuing its plans for industrial transformation. “Whilst the Business Development Ministry works on bringing out entrepreneurial skills and encouraging young people to spot business opportunities, we are paying greater attention to making Ghana an easy place to do business and set up industries,” he emphasized.
By Kofi Ahovi
