About Us
The Ghana Jobs and Economic Transformation Programme (JET), funded by the UK Government’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, strives to create systemic change in Ghana’s manufacturing sector.
Our Mission Statement
Ghana’s Jobs and Economic Transformation (JET) programme catalyses innovative frontier shifts in several priority manufacturing sectors, including Pharmaceuticals, Textiles and Garments, Automotive, and Agri-processing. Frontier shifts in these key sectors will drive Ghana’s economic transformation and enhance the livelihoods of its citizens.
The Ghana JET programme seeks to stimulate economic complexity and diversity in Ghana, increase productivity, and create sustainable jobs by facilitating policy reform, leveraging £30M in anchor investment into these priority sectors, and creating 7000 sustainable jobs.
The Ghana Jobs and Economic Transformation Programme
In 2023, Ghana’s manufacturing sector contributed GH¢20.6 billion to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), representing 11.23% of the total GDP. It remains a key employer, providing jobs for approximately 21.5% of the workforce.
Driving Industrial Transformation
Aligning with the Government of Ghana’s implementation of various industrialisation policies to bolster the sector, the Ghana Jobs and Economic Transformation Programme (JET), funded by the UK Government’s Foreign Commonwealth Office, strives to create systemic change in Ghana’s manufacturing sector. The programme focuses on five priority sectors, including Pharmaceuticals, Textiles and Garments, and Automotive, fostering growth and innovation to accelerate Ghana’s economic transformation.
The JET programme empowers Ghana’s government, private sector, and ecosystem partners through demand-driven, evidence-based technical assistance, strategic stakeholder collaborations, and targeted results-based grants.
Led by local and international experts, it delivers contextually relevant support to leverage investment, facilitate technology transfers, and drive politically astute collaborations that enable impactful frontier shifts. These shifts will promote sustainable industrial growth, enhance competitiveness, and improve Ghanaians’ quality of life.
The impact of these efforts will be reflected in the development of local economies, which will be marked by strategic policy development, investment mobilisation and a strengthened ecosystem.
Frontier shifts are innovations and practice changes that result in improvements in the productivity, competitiveness, product sophistication complexity and/or growth of firms at the frontier of manufacturing in Ghana (e.g. adopting a new production technology, moving into a new higher-value product space.).