AGI to train members in managerial skills dev’t


THE Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) is to train small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) to improve their business literacy levels and managerial skills.

The initiative, known as the SME Business Edge, is an innovation of the International Finance Corporation (IFC). The IFC specifically designed the toolkit towards the development of the human resource requirements of managers and key staff members and other stakeholders interested in developing the SMEs sector.

Business Edge was first developed in Vietnam and has been successfully deployed in China, Middle East and a number of African countries.

The objectives of the SME programme is to provide AGI members in the SME sector with relevant business training solutions and services to fulfill their individual business needs.

About 14 participants have so far been taken through an aspect of management crucial to the efficient running and understanding of a business, especially those suited for SME operations.

At the closing ceremony of the maiden training in Accra, the Vice President of AGI, Mr Samuel Agyapong Appenteng, said AGI was aiming at getting an accredited institution that could train people in business and entrepreneurial skills development.

“Though, our beginning is small, our end shall be big. It is said that when the axe is blunt, too much effort and strength is needed. For us, this training is important to sharpen our skills and find most efficient ways of doing things because the cost of non-quality can be very high,” he said.

He explained that the training was also intended to help change perceptions that SMEs were using obsolete equipment in their operations.



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