Ghana has spent years trying to attract investment, but the flip side of the question is whether the country is doing enough to turn the opportunities it already has into viable businesses and projects.
That will be the focus of “Ghana’s Untapped Investment Outlook — Vast Opportunities,” an investment programme bringing businesses, investors and other stakeholders together in Accra on October 15 to examine financial opportunities and how they can be financed.
Louis Yaw Afful, Group Executive Director of the AfCFTA Policy Network, told The High Street Journal in an interview that Ghana also needs to pay greater attention to domestic investors.
“We have domestic investors,” Afful said, citing about US$816 million in direct investment attributed to Ghanaians.
He said the figure shows there is capital within Ghana that can be mobilised to finance opportunities at home.
The programme’s focus on “domestication of investment opportunities” will therefore look at how more Ghanaian capital can participate alongside foreign investment.
Afful said the programme will also showcase investment opportunities identified by the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) across the country’s regions.
The aim, he said, is to bring those opportunities to businesses and potential investors and explore how they can be developed.
The Ghana Tourism Authority is also expected to participate and present investment opportunities it has identified in the tourism sector.
The discussion will extend beyond Ghana, with Afful pointing to the AfCFTA Investment Protocol, which encourages African direct investment.
He said this creates an opportunity for Ghana to attract more capital from investors across the continent.
The programme, under 2026 AGIS: Promoting Africa & Domestic Investment, will be held at the Accra City Hotel under the theme “Financial Opportunities and Domestication of Investment Opportunities.”
