BDS (Business Development Services)
Completed IDEAS projects
Support from SPEED Ghana to projects under the IDEAS scheme takes normally between half a year and 2 years. The projects here below are completed. Click here for a list of ongoing projects.Natural plant products sector
| Project Title | Herbal medicines processing centre |
| Partner Organisation | GNATH – Ghana National Association of Traditional Healers |
| Project Summary | The Ashanti regional branch of GNATH established a processing centre for its members in Kumasi. Traditionally, the individual healers often work under unhygienic and unhealthy conditions, and the quality of the end-product is often not very good. The centre serves as a place, where the members can bring their raw material and have it processed and packed. |
ICT sector
| Project Title | Web based pocket accountant |
| Partner Organisation | Competency Based Advisory Ltd. |
| Project Summary | The initiative would improve the existing Pocket Accountant and develop it into a complete financial planning tool for SMEs and be made accessible to at SMEs independent of location. The use of the programme would be expanded through the development of a web based interface, and the service will be available through service providers. |
Not specific sector related
| Project Title | Design and promotion of miniature solar converters |
| Partner Organisation | CASOLS – Crisis Action Solution |
| Project Summary | CASOLS developed miniature solar converters to power small radios, mobile phones and recharge small batteries. The converters are produced from locally available products, and artisans will be trained in the construction and maintenance of them. The end-users of the converters are micro and small traders selling home appliances. |
| Project Title | Central jewellery resource centre |
| Partner Organisation | Federation of Ghanaian Jewellers (Ashanti Region) |
| Project Summary | The federation has as its members gold- and silversmiths in Kumasi. The members are all working as individuals with 1-5 employees, and they often lack knowledge or equipment to improve on their business. The resource centre consists of a machine shop, a skills training unit and a showroom. The machine shop has equipment that the individual members will usually not be able to acquire, and they can come to the centre and use it for a fee and under supervision of a trained craftsman. The skills training unit offers training and also facilitate workshops. The showroom showcases some of the products of the members. |
| Project Title | Sapphire (Ghana) Ltd. |
| Partner Organisation | TV-series – basic entrepreneurial skills training |
| Project Summary | The project is targeted for businesses and upcoming entrepreneurs. The objective of the programme is to take the fundamental rules of successful entrepreneurial skills and break them down through dramatization to a very practical level using a good mix of entertainment and education. 13 episodes would be produced and they would be aired on one of the national television stations.
Unfortunately, the produced episodes have been lost, and due to this the project was ended prematurely. |
| Project Title | Mobile kitchen for fast food vendors |
| Partner Organisation | Okyere-Mintah Company Ltd. |
| Project Summary | Street food vendors in Takoradi; especially around the market circle, are usually operating from fixed stalls, but this is not appreciated by the public authorities, and they are therefore being harassed. Therefore a mobile kitchen at an affordable price was developed, which the vendors can move to a convenient location after working hours. Also it increases the income generation of the vendors, as they will be able to move the kitchen to every spot where the customers are; festivals, football fields, funerals etc. The mobile kitchen is produced by individually operating craftsmen: welders, sprayers, carpenters etc. |
| Project Title | Product quality development clinics in oil palm processing |
| Partner Organisation | CRED - Centre for Rural Enterprise Development |
| Project Summary | CRED set up a center for production and packaging of palm oil in the Central Region. Traditionally, individuals gather under very unhygienic conditions with old equipment, and the end-product is often of a poor quality. In the center it is possible for individual to have their palm nuts processed and packaged, and their end-product will be marketed under the common brand. It is estimated that between 150 and 250 processors in the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam District benefit from the service. |
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