The UK-Ghana Partnership for Jobs and Economic Transformation Programme (JET), funded by the UK Government’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, supports systemic transformation and sustainable job creation in Ghana’s manufacturing sectors.
The Ghana JET programme facilitates interventions in policy, investments, and ecosystem development to stimulate economic complexity and diversity in Ghana, increase productivity, and create sustainable jobs.
The programme focuses on priority manufacturing sectors: Pharmaceuticals, Textiles and Garments, Agri-processing and Automotive, fostering innovative frontier shifts to accelerate Ghana’s economic transformation.
Ghana’s pharmaceutical sector presents vital investment with potential to create 4,000–6,000 high-quality jobs.
Ghana’s government identified T&G as a vital sector for building a manufacturing and export-driven economy.
Ghana’s automotive sector development holds transformative potential for national economic growth.
The packaging sector in Ghana holds immense potential for job creation and economic development. Expanding and establishing local packaging facilities will create direct employment opportunities in manufacturing, R&D, and logistics.
The recent imposition of a universal 10% import tariff by the United States government on foreign products, including those from Ghana, is expected to have ripple effects on global supply chains, impacting cost of production and disrupting market stability in the near term.
The UK-Ghana Partnership for Jobs and Economic Transformation (JET) Programme’s support for the Ghana Automotive Development Policy (GADP) spurs over £35 million of private investment, resulting in no less than 320 direct jobs and more than 900 indirect jobs in greenfield assembly plants.
The key project aim is to provide an overview of the leaf and coil spring market in Ghana and nearby ECOWAS countries.
This report assesses the opportunities and challenges in developing Ghana’s Electric Vehicle (EV) sub-sector considering the EV Policy that the Government of Ghana recently launched.