Ghana Investment Promotion Centre

The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre is Ghana’s foremost investment promotion agency under the Office of the President with a vision to make Ghana the first destination of choice for investing in Africa by providing seamless one-stop-shop high value-added services. Ghana recognizes the relevance of foreign direct investment (FDI) as a means of complementing the national revenue, securing appropriate technology and know-how, increasing employment opportunities, and improving standards of living. Through its investment promotion activities, the Centre continues to support Ghana’s economic transformation agenda through its service offerings of facilitating investments, identifying and promoting for partnerships value added/bankable projects, facilitating technology transfers, advocacy by ensuring investment law is comparative to best practices, among others. As a result, in the past 4 years, Ghana has recorded over USD12 billion worth of FDI investments and in 2020, FDI investments worth US$2.65 billion was recorded by Ghana, even amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Under the GETP, GIPC is receiving support to build the capacity of staff and develop a corporate strategy to steer its operations and improve its systems and tools (IRMS, IIS and SOP), and strengthen investor services, ultimately creating better conditions to attract, support and retain foreign and domestic investments.