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The government’s Adwumawura Programme is advancing its nationwide youth entrepreneurship agenda, with 541 young business owners and innovators in the Upper East Region currently undergoing intensive capacity-building training as part of efforts to strengthen 10,000 youth-led enterprises across Ghana.
According to Casper Sunday Kampoli, Director of Research and Innovation at the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (NEIP), the beneficiaries in the region have entered their third week of structured training spread across seven districts.
“We have about 541 beneficiaries from the Upper East Region that are undergoing the training,” Mr Kampoli stated.
“A lot of our young guys who are doing business, apart of it, they stand a chance of winning a grant.”
Training is underway at centres in Garu, Pusiga, Tempane, Binduri, Bawku, Zebilla and Nabdam.
The regional capital, Bolgatanga, is hosting two centres, while Bongo has one. Three centres are running in Navrongo, and Sirigu is serving trainees from the Kassena–Nankana West District.
Mr. Kampoli noted that the Adwumawura Programme, which he describes as both “a capacity building and an opportunity for funding programme,” received over 120,000 applications nationwide.
Out of this pool, 10,000 young entrepreneurs including both idea-stage applicants and those already operating businesses, were selected to undergo the training.
After the two-week sessions, participants will pitch their business concepts in a competitive process to access grants. NEIP expects to extend financial support to roughly 2,000 of the trainees.
“Those who do not get business funding support, there are other aspects of it that we seek to help them,” Mr. Kampoli added, pointing to potential intervention partnerships such as linking poultry farmers to Nkokɔ Nkitikiti, the government’s poultry initiative.
He also highlighted NEIP’s evolving mandate. Originally established in 2014 under former President John Mahama as Youth Enterprise Support, the programme was rebranded by the NPP administration in 2017.
Today, NEIP aims to nurture entrepreneurship and drive innovation within Ghana’s economic landscape.
Mr. Kampoli stressed that the agency prioritises “viable, scalable, and feasible ideas” with strong potential for job creation.
“Every business that we support, we are looking at the business having the potential to create two jobs,” he said.
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