The Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), Mrs Mawuena Trebah has reiterated the need to for investment agencies to set up strong teams to monitor and track investment inflows into countries.
This she explained would not only help investment agencies to know the number of investors in their countries but also help to develop strategies to encourage new ones in a bid to achieve national development.
She made these remarks when a delegation from the Sierra Leone Investment and Export Promotion Agency (SLIEPA) who were in the country last week on a trade and investment exploration mission paid a courtesy call on her at the centre in Accra.
Mrs Trebah explained although it was not easy to surmount the challenge of adequately tracking what comes into a country, she believes a strong investment team which operates from a Public Relations and Marketing perspective can make strides in this regard.
She also explained although the GIPC Act provides a legislation framework that defines how investment propositions are made in Ghana, an extra effort to encourage various stakeholders and institutions to engage and drive investors to the GIPC would be of immense to help get the right information about investments in the country.
The GIPC is currently working in close alliance with agencies like the Freezones Board and the Minerals Commission who engage investors that comes to them and refer them appropriately to the centre in order to track what comes into the country.
Mrs Trebah also noted by engaging in quality investments, some perceptions about investments with respect to human resource, infrastructure and power were gradually being surmounted.
She however expressed her commitment to collaborate with other investment agencies to help create platforms that can help promote pan African investments.
The Director of Investment Promotion at SLIEPA, Mr Raymond K. Gbekie said the SLIEPA started operations in 2009 and was therefore in the country to build an effective collaboration that can help them build their own effective investment team.
He explained the areas of interest include tourism, fisheries, infrastructure which includes providing low cost houses amongst others and thus called for more collaboration and insight into the workings of the centre to enable them gain more information.
The trade visit was facilitated by the Ghana Export promotion Authority (GEPA) and amongst the delegation were the Director of Export Development of SLIEPA, Mr Shiaka Kawa and an assistant Export Development Officer of the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA), Ms Regina Manu.
They also had consultations with the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI), West Africa Trade Hub, the Ghana Institute of Packaging and the Ghana Stock Exchange.
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