Story in Brief
- The Ghana Climate Innovation Center (GCIC), an Ashesi institute, has welcomed 26 entrepreneurs into its incubator programme in a ceremony held at the end of July. (Meet the entrepreneurs)
- The business incubator program, in partnership with Global Affairs Canada, is part of the University’s efforts to help grow small businesses and startups as well as increase climate adaptability and resilience in Ghana.
- This year, entrepreneurs who graduated from the Centre had created 586 jobs, helped save 298,647 MT of carbon emissions by the end of their incubation period, and reached 3,000 households with their products and services.
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The 26 new fellows comprise the eighth cohort of entrepreneurs to be welcomed into the Climate Innovation Centre’s incubator programme. The businesses span electric transport, climate-smart agriculture, waste management, energy efficiency, water purification, menstrual hygiene, cosmetics, and packaging. The ceremony was attended by Shauna Flanagan, First Secretary at Global Affairs Canada, who took the opportunity to interact with the entrepreneurs, learning more about their businesses and the invaluable work they are doing for a sustainable future. Global Affairs Canada partnered with the Climate Innovation Centre in 2022 to enable at least 240 green entrepreneurs in Ghana to scale their businesses through access to the Centre’s incubation services.
The ceremony also marked the graduation of the Climate Innovation Centre’s seventh cohort of 22 entrepreneurs, who completed one year of incubation. Ruka Sanusi, the Executive Director of the Centre, congratulated this cohort for their growth during the past year and encouraged the Centre’s new group of incubatees to draw inspiration from the graduating cohort.
“Our journey towards sustainable e-commerce received a considerable boost when we became a part of the GCIC,” reads a blog post from e-commerce and courier service platform Shaq Express, which was part of the graduating cohort. “This program was not just an incubator but a catalyst, fuelling our aspiration to grow as a green business. They equipped us with many resources and expert mentors, as well as providing us with valuable partnerships.”
Meet The Entrepreneurs
| Entrepreneur: Doris Payne Business: Bluefield Farms & Logistics Bluefields Farms and Logistics is a poultry farming business with a 1000 bird capacity, and a team of 5 located in Takoradi. |
| Entrepreneur: Aba Ackon Business: Uvuko Company Limited Uvuko Co. Ltd is a plastic waste processing business located in Tarkwa that collects, shreds, sterilizes and sells plastic materials to recycling companies. |
| Entrepreneur: Edmund Arthur Brown Business: Premier Waste Services Premier Waste Services is located at Kumasi and is into plastic waste processing with the capacity to process 20 tonnes of plastic waste every month. |
| Entrepreneur: Charles Koomson Business: Imogen Carly Ventures Imogen Carly Ventures is a plastic waste processing business established in 2022 located at Berekum. It was and has a staff strength of 30 employees. |
| Entrepreneur: Amdiya Abdul Latiff Business: Eco-Me Limited Eco-Me produces high-quality eco-friendly, non-toxic and affordable reusable sanitary pads. |
| Entrepreneur: Derrick Kofi Sarfo Business: Dercol Bags Packaging Ltd Dercol Bags Packaging Ltd manufactures paper packages to serve as alternatives to plastic packaging. |
| Entrepreneur: Sagoe Gad Lawson
Business: Tekxul Company Limited Tekxul is into domestic and industrial water purification systems develops and installs systems that recycle wastewater for re-use. |
| Entrepreneur: Nana Opoku Ware Ofori Agyemang-Prempeh
Business: Grow For Me Grow for Me is an out-grower scheme and commodity trading that is into production of sustainable aviation fuel from agricultural plants which would be is an eco-friendly alternative to polluting Jet fuels. |
| Entrepreneur: Felix Nyarko Appiah
Business: Trisolace Company Limited Trisolace is an innovative company that helps individuals utilize spaces in urban and rural areas for commercial organic snail production in automated greenhouses. |
| Entrepreneur: John Odartey Lawson Business: Printland Limited Printland is a paper company that produces paper packaging as an alternative to plastic packages. |
| Entrepreneur: Erasmus Osei Business: Guaras Enterprise Guaras Enterprise is located at Ofankor and manufactures clean cooking stoves. |
| Entrepreneur: Issaka Labaranu Business: Yooyili Enterprise Yooyili Enterprise is located at Ashaiman and manufactures clean cookstoves for individual households. |
| Entrepreneur: Kwabena Assan Mends Business: Emfed farms and Trading Company Emfed farms provides farm management services to smallholder cocoa farmers and manufactures organic compost. |
| Entrepreneur: Sheila Cornelius Business: Cornelius Farms Cornelius Farms is into climate efficient methods of cultivating rice, mango and vegetables. |
| Entrepreneur: Sabina Afua Gyan
Business: Njema Edge Farm Limited Njema Edge Farms was established in 2019 and uses greenhouse technology in the cultivation of high value vegetables. |
| Entrepreneur: Loverage Kofi Amenu Business: Hildamen Ventures Hildamen Ventures is a nursery of tree crop seedlings for commercial and smallholder farmers. |
| Entrepreneur: Alice Frimpomaa Boateng Business: AFB Golden Enterprise AFB Golden Enterprise is into the manufacturing of cosmetic products using local and plant-based materials. |
| Entrepreneur: Twene Emmanuel Business: Qet Organic Farms & Consult QET is into greenhouse snail farming, mushroom cultivations and the production of mushroom related products such as dried mushroom, mushroom kebab and mushroom tea. |
| Entrepreneur: Hisham Seidu Business: Kukobila Nasia Farms Limited Kukobila Nasia Farms Limited is an integrated commercial farm that is into livestock rearing and cultivates crops such as rice, mango, maize and butternut squash. |
| Entrepreneur: Mohammed Iddi Business: Yomyom YomYom is a courier service in Tamale that is in the process of transitioning its fleets into electric motorcycles. |
| Entrepreneur: Amadu Ibrahim Business: Deco Sustainable Farming Deco is into the production of organic fertilizer and biochar. |
| Entrepreneur: Cletus Baalongbuoro Business: Ponaa Briquettes Ponaa Briquettes is a Clean Coal Company that manufactures charcoal briquettes to serve households and commercial customers within Tamale and its environs. |
| Entrepreneur: Priscilla Akoto-Bamfo Business: Shepherd Rice Mills Rice Mills provides rice milling and polishing services to smallholder rice farmers and sells its rice bran as animal feed. |
| Entrepreneur: Abubakari Murijana Business: Suglo Suhudoo Enterprise Suglo Enterprise is into the processing of shea butter, groundnut and cereals and also trains women involved in shea butter processing on sustainable and eco-friendly shea butter processing techniques. |
| Entrepreneur: Shobhita Soor Business: Legendary Foods Legendary Foods produces palm larvae to serve as protein source using sustainable agro techniques. |
| Entrepreneur: Juliet Agyapomah Larbi Business: Mpampa Cereals Mpampa Cereals is a cereals processing company in Accra. |
