The BEEP Accountability and Advocacy Project will help reform Ghana’s businesses especially the private sector to enable them compete in global environment.

The event was held under the theme: ‘’Profit and progress’’ and it centered on deliberations to ensure that good business occurs in the country.

Mr Ahomka Lindsay, Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, said Ghana has been into the reformation journey before and was once part of the top ten most reformed countries for two consecutive years but the absence of clarity in the registration process curtailed the effort.

He said in doing this, there is the need for resources and good structures to be put in place to sustain, improve and advance the reformation process.

Mr Lindsay said it is the vision of the President, Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo that, Ghana would be the most business friendly environment in Africa and to achieve this, we all need to work harder in the competitive African environment.

 “The Advocacy and Accountability project is so important because they can bring together all the agencies they are working with to start talking about what they are doing and get the needed feedback”, he said.

Nana Osei-Bonsu, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Private Enterprise Federation (PEF), said this project is the way to reduce the waste in the system to enable the private sector to get the appropriate needs to do their business.

“What we are doing is to research and identify the challenges of the private sectors and administration side and then bring them together and dialog with government to ensure that the right license fees are charged,” he said.

Nana Frimpomaa Aheng, the Trade Advisor for DFID, said bold steps are needed to ensure that the right things get done.

The coalition partners of the project are the Institute of Economics Affairs (IEA), The Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) of the University of Ghana and Private Enterprise Federation (PEF)