The conference, the first of its kind on the African continent, would bring together private enterprises and government agencies to design solutions to the challenges affecting the micro sectors of Ghana’s economy and Africa as a whole.

The first day is an open technical expert’s lecture forum to address the major macroeconomic systemic issues denying attractive investment as follows:

• Why the SMEs are failing to realize the potential capacity as an engine of economic growth in Ghana and the approach to address the challenge
• The difficulties associated with infrastructural financing the reason for the perceived high-risk venture to the Banks
• The effective role of evaluation towards credit accessing facility and the approach to avoid such services to become a burden on your capital cost
• What are the basic requirement in international funding towards domestic infrastructural set-ups in terms of costing, quantity surveying, architectural design, and finance development towards the project life span and reliable payment approach
• Innovatively explore a different avenue of sovereign guarantee opportunities through public and private partnership programs. And why PPP has not been a successful program in Ghana.
• The innovative and effective play of local financial houses in relation to the international banks for SMEs market and the informal economy of Ghana
• The current trend of expectation and investment appetite of global financiers and fund managers to be exploited by African investment advisors and securities brokers
• The alternative approach to address the challenges associated with the full-scale implementation of one-district-one-factor for easy investment attraction.
• Understanding the land transactional issues for factory set-up and infrastructural projects for quality investment attraction.

Speakers at the conference include Francis Kusi, Ghana SME’s development expert for Government of Ghana, Stanislaus Adiaba, Land administration expert for the government of Ghana, Kofi Cobbold, Valuation for Investment expert and Kofi Obeng-Ayirebi, Quantity Surveyor and Costing Engineer.

The others are Isaac Oware-Aboagye, Ghana Expert in Public-Private Partnership for Investment, Emmanuel Tweneboah Senzu, An economist and International Investment Banker specialized in Fundraising strategies and risk management, Mike Carter, International Project Financing and management, Bashwa Kiwa Mosengo and Mansur Nuruddin, experts in capital raising, processing, and transactional requirement.

The conference will bring funding and practical knowledge exchange as a service product to meet the expectation of delegates.

According to the organisers, the completion of the conference will not be the end of the delegate experience but there will be a post-conference experience in which the technical team of the project finance secretariat will continue to engage with the delegates in the areas of needs assessment and assist technically until the expectation is fully met.

The link for registration is: http://projectfinance2019.thetrustworkghana.com