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Ghana’s SMEs face persistent barriers to growth – most notably financial restraints due to lack of investment. Access to affordable and quality transaction advisory services is essential to help improve our SMEs’ levels of investment readiness. Transaction advisors contribute specialised expertise including business and financial structuring, due diligence, legal and corporate governance, environmental and social management, and audit and accounting support. These services help ensure that companies meet investor standards, thus positioning them for sustainable growth.
The Ghana Investment Support Programme (GhISP), powered by British International Investment, has just launched its Transaction Advisors Directory to ease the process for SMEs, investors and intermediaries to connect with trusted local expertise. The directory provides a breakdown of Ghanaian advisory firms, the services they offer, the sectors and SME growth stages in which they specialise, and their contact information.
This new publication is an addition to GhISP’s growing library of tools and resources, all geared towards increasing the investment flow and unlocking growth for Ghana’s SMEs. According to David Tetteh, Senior Consultant, GhISP’s multi-pronged approach of pipeline development and market creation is proving highly effective.
“GHISP is actively reinforcing Ghana’s SME-investment ecosystem by delivering tailored technical assistance, investment readiness support and facilitating access to patient capital for underserved enterprises. Through our workshops, ecosystem partnerships and advisory engagements, the programme helps SMEs enhance their governance, environmental and social standards, and financial structuring to attract investment. At the same time, we promote broader system-level reforms, including new studies on pension fund allocation to private capital. In publishing this Directory of Transaction Advisors, we provide practical market infrastructure to ensure SMEs are aware of advisory service and capital providers. This helps advance our overarching objective of catalysing scaled and sustainable investment into high-growth Ghanaian firms.”
About GhISP
The Ghana Investment Support Programme (GhISP) is a British International Investment (BII) technical assistance initiative launched in February 2023. It aims to increase investment flows to underserved SMEs in Ghana, with a particular focus on gender, inclusion and climate investing. GhISP is designed to drive enhanced development impact while being aligned with investment strategies in Ghana. This is accomplished through a dual pipeline development and market creation strategy. The approach offers tailored assistance to intermediaries to better receive and deploy capital to underserved segments first, while also leveraging these investments to influence and shape the wider investment ecosystem. Learn more on www.ghisp.org.
