Ghana will take part in a global enterprise and funding exposition within the capital of the United Arab Emirate, Dubai, from October this yr to March 2022.
About EXPO 2020 Dubai
The six-month occasion dubbed: “EXPO 2020 Dubai” will showcase the enterprise and funding alternatives in Ghana to the worldwide enterprise neighborhood, to draw Overseas Direct Funding into the nation.
The EXPO was initially slated for final yr however the Covid-19 pandemic led to its cancellation.
The occasion is anticipated to draw 122 nations worldwide and over 30 million audiences to the business metropolis of Dubai, starting subsequent month.
The Ghana Funding Promotion Centre (GIPC), in collaboration with ministries of Commerce and Trade, Overseas Affairs and Regional Integration, Data and plenty of different sector businesses, is facilitating and coordinating Ghana’s participation to the EXPO.
EXPO 2020 Dubai – Ghana’s Theme
“Ghana: Limitless Alternatives” is the theme the nation has chosen for the EXPO and would allow ministers of state and authorities officers in addition to personal sector gamers to current and clarify varied enterprise and funding alternatives out there in Ghana to a worldwide viewers.
Addressing the media in Accra, on Monday, on preparations made in direction of Ghana’s participation within the EXPO, Mr Reginald Yofi Grant, the Chief Government Officer of GIPC, stated Ghana had earmarked particular actions to be undertaken by Ghana’s Group to the EXPO.
Some key thematic areas anticipated to be highlighted on the occasion embrace agriculture and agro-processing, water and sanitation, tradition and inventive arts, meals safety, housing and building, tourism and hospitality, lands and pure sources, surroundings and local weather change points.
The EXPO, Grant stated, will formally open on September 30 and maintain media engagement classes with journalists and media practitioners worldwide in October to clarify key thematic areas the nation would spotlight on the EXPO.
He stated, as an illustration, Ghana had chosen to spotlight the alternatives within the nation’s housing and building business in November and have interaction with strategic traders.
In December, the main focus can be on Ghana’s schooling sector and textile and clothes business, with a particular exposition on Kente.
The month of January 2022 would spotlight Ghana’s technological and digital economic system and discover avenues for partnerships and the healthcare sector.
The final quarter of January subsequent yr would additionally throw extra mild on funding and commerce alternatives in Ghana.
In February, the spotlight can be on Ghana’s agriculture and agro-processing alternatives.
On March eighth and ninth 2022, it has been declared “Ghana Day” or “Nationwide Day Engagement”, which might permit every taking part nation to mount a particular parade on enterprise and funding alternatives out there of their respective nations to a worldwide viewers.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will lead a delegation from Ghana to the EXPO on March 8 and maintain Presidential Roundtable discussions on “authorities to enterprise engagement, and networking session with personal sector gamers on funding alternatives in Ghana”.
The Minister of Sanitation and Water Sources, Madam Cecilia Abena Dapaah, would be the first authorities official to take the centre stage on the EXPO subsequent month to current alternatives in that sector.
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