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Co-funded by the European Union

Improving Business Environment Reform for Social Enterprises in Ghana

Location

Ghana

Topic

Business Regulation and Policy, Small and Medium Enterprises and Start-Ups, Social Economy

Status

Completed

Year

2021

Context

Social enterprises are playing a crucial role in the economic growth of Ghana, but more support is needed to enable their growth . Social Enterprise Ghana is the membership body for social enterprises in Ghana. In 2017, a draft Social Enterprise Policy was developed by Social Enterprise Ghana and its partners. To move the draft policy forward, Social Enterprise Ghana in 2021, was seeking to take it through a Public-Private Dialogue process, to update the draft and develop an action plan to be used for the adoption/mainstreaming of the updated Social Enterprise Policy. Social Enterprise Ghana was also in need of tools, frameworks, trainings to support their effort in gathering evidence on the sector, advocating for the sector, supporting social enterprises and becoming a sustainable business member organisation.

Objective

The technical assistance was to update and finalise the draft Ghana Social Enterprise Policy of 2017 and to improve the capacity of Social Enterprise Ghana to better support the social enterprise sector in Ghana.

Result

The intervention produced an updated draft Ghana Social Enterprise Policy, improved the public private dialogue mechanism on social enterprises and developed an action plan to move the policy forward. It also produced a research framework and resource mobilisation strategy for Social Enterprise Ghana with associated capacity training.

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More Information

This intervention took place under ICR Facility project, co-funded by the European Union (EU), the Organisation of African, Caribbean  and  Pacific  States  (OACPS)  under  the  11th  European  Development  Fund  (EDF),  together with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the British Council. The ICR Facility was implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (German Development Cooperation, GIZ), the British Council, Expertise France, and Stichting Nederlandse Ontwikkelingsorganisatie (Netherlands Development Organisation, SNV).   

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