BDS (Business Development Services)
Ongoing 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 ongoing. Click here for a list of completed projects.Tourism sector
| Project Title | Promotion & marketing of community–based tourism. |
| Partner Organisation | Green Shepherd Ghana |
| Project Summary | This project is to promote Eco-Tourism sites in the Dormaa, Asutifi and Asunafo South Districts. The possibilities for tourism are abundant, but facilities and capacity of local enterprises are not good enough. The proponent intends to sensitize the involved communities and also wants to establish so-called “home stays”. This will be done with the involvement of Tour Operators, University of Cape Coast and local district authorities. |
Wood products sector
| Project Title | Wood cluster: BDSW/AR/001 |
| Partner Organisation | Wood Workers Machinery Center Wood Workers Association, Mampong-Ashanti |
| Project Summary | The Wood Workers Association in Mampong has approximately fifty members in and around Mampong. They are mainly engaged in the production of furniture, doors, windows etc. Often they lack even simple equipment and they need training in proper techniques and methods. With support of SPEED Ghana the association establishes a resource and training centre where the members can process and refine some of their products and where they can receive training. The members will have to pay a fee for the use of equipment and for the training. |
Natural plant products sector
| Project Title | Improving competitiveness for natural plant products |
| Partner Organisation | ASNAPP – Agribusiness in sustainable natural African plant products |
| Project Summary | The use of natural plants as medicine has a long history in Ghana, and there is growing demand also from outside Ghana for these products. The quality can, however, often not be secured, and large scale export will only be possible if certain standards can be met. ASNAPP intends to train agents, collectors and exporters in proper collection and packaging methods for two plants: Voacanga and Griffonia. They also want to assay the active ingredients in the two plants to establish a standardization framework. |
Garment and textile sector
| Project Title | Building awareness of made-in-Ghana textiles and garments |
| Partner Organisation | Protouch Media Productions Ltd |
| Project Summary | The project develops and produces a TV-show exposing the garments and textile sector. The programme will be on GTV featuring SME’s in the textile and garments industry presenting their produce to the public. The end-users of this project are the SME’s in the textiles and garments industry. |
ICT sector
| Project Title | Development of profiles of BDS providers |
| Partner Organisation | SBS - Small Business Services Network |
| Project Summary | The aim of the project is to create a web-based portal which will help MSMEs to find the most appropriate service provider with the requisite professional background in the relevant field to support them find the right solution for improving their businesses. |
| Project Title | Software customisation, implementation 7 support capacity |
| Partner Organisation | APMLG - Association of Private Medical Laboratories Ghana |
| Project Summary | APMLG is made up of appr. 200 privately owned and managed laboratories and diagnostic facilities all over Ghana. The service being developed is the customization and capacity development for the implementation and support of laboratory management software for its members, to address the laboratories operational and reporting needs. |
| Project Title | Healthcare service provider software and wide area net |
| Partner Organisation | Society of Private Medical and Dental Practitioners |
| Project Summary | The proponent is a society with appr. 260 doctors who own and operate private clinics or hospitals. The society intends to develop and run a Private Mutual Health Insurance Scheme for its members, and for this reason they want to establish a wide area network with access to a central database, where its members can access tariffs, but also send health claims for later reimbursement from the NHIL. |
| Project Title | Kente Resource Centres |
| Partner Organisation | ATAG – Aid to Artisans Ghana |
| Project Summary | ATAG has, with the support of SPEED, developed software that can be used to digitize existing kente and adinkra designs, but also develop new designs. This project establishes three centres in the kente weaving areas, which will be used as a “link” between the traditional weavers and the possibilities that the electronic media can give. The centres will also be used as a visitors centre and place where designers can link up with the weavers to develop new designs. |
Not specific sector related
| Project Title | Integrated export for made-in-Ghana goods |
| Partner Organisation | AGI (Association of Ghana Industries) |
| Project Summary | The project is an integrated export development programme for made-in-Ghana products in the Ecowas sub-region to be implemented in two stages: Stage I: A market research in the Ecowas countries Stage II: Based on the result from the market research, series of exhibitions will be held in the relevant countries to showcase export potentials of Ghanaian entrepreneurs. |
| Project Title | Services Export |
| Partner Organisation | EMPRETEC |
| Project Summary | The project is to introduce an innovative product to improve the suitability of smaller business in Ghana for listing on the Ghana Stock Exchange. This will be done through capacity building programmes to increase their chances to gain access to the Ghana Stock Exchange to raise funds for retooling and expansion. The end-users of this project will be owners/ managers of small enterprises who want to move their businesses to a step higher. |
| Project Title | Services Export |
| Partner Organisation | PEF – Private Enterprise Foundation |
| Project Summary | Cook Art Ghana will improve the products and services that restaurants, chop bars and street food vendors provide in such a way that they can attract increased patronage |
| Project Title | Ghana indigenous foods |
| Partner Organisation | Cook Art Ghana |
| Project Summary | The project seeks to build the capacity of trade and business associations to take advantage of the potential in services export. The project, at the SPEED supported pilot phase, will package demands for services from countries in the sub-region for interested business entities to bid and enter into contract relationships with host countries/business entities. Subsequently with improved capacity, business entities will advertise for and seek out contracts for themselves. |
| Project Title | Multi-fuel source dryer |
| Partner Organisation | Peetech Fabrications and Trading Enterprise |
| Project Summary | The availability of sources of fuel is often unstable in Ghana, and it is therefore the intention to develop and produce prototypes of a multi-fuel dryer for dehydrating different kinds of food. The prototypes will be used to showcase the possibilities and to disseminate the idea to be picked up by other interested manufacturers. |
| Project Title | Production of potash from cocoa pod husk. |
| Partner Organisation | Marglas Potash Industries |
| Project Summary | Potash can be used in the production of soap, glass, fertilizers and other commodities, and Ghana is today importing large quantities of potash. Potash of high quality can be retrieved and processed from the cocoa pod husk, and it is the intention to construct a manufacturing plant for potash in the middle of one of Ghana’s most important cocoa growing areas. The potash can be extracted centrally at the plant, but farmers will also be trained in the extraction at the farms, and for this purpose kilns will be developed and the technology disseminated.
With the support of SPEED Ghana a feasibility study has been completed. Negotiations are ongoing for further support. |
| Project Title | Extraction and marketing of avocado oil |
| Partner Organisation | Christian Action and Support |
| Project Summary | A plant for the extraction and marketing of avocado oil will be established. The avocado tree is growing in the wild in most of the cocoa growing areas in Ghana, but the fruit is often not collected and used. It is the intention to sensitize farmers to collect the fruit and either extract the oil locally or sell the fruit to the central plant. A solar drier will be developed for the farmers to cut up and dry the fruit at the site of collection.
With the support of SPEED Ghana a feasibility study has been completed. Negotiations are ongoing for further support. |
| Project Title | Nut from fan palm fruit as substitute for ivory |
| Partner Organisation | The Tourist Focus Ltd. |
| Project Summary | The nut from the Fan Palm; also called Tagua, resembles ivory when it is cut up and dried. Outside Ghana it has been used as a substitute for ivory for may years, but it is hardly known in Ghana. The Tourist Focus Ltd. intends to set up a training facility for craftsmen, artisans and designers where they can learn to work with the product. Also involved will be farmers and collectors in the regions where the Fan Palm is present and mostly growing in the wild.
With the support of SPEED Ghana a feasibility study has been completed. Negotiations are ongoing for further support. |
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