GCIC Conducts Environmental and Social Safeguards Assessment on Cohort 6 Businesses
In the last quarter, the Ghana Climate Innovation Centre (GCIC) conducted an Environmental and Social Safeguards (ESS) Assessment on all 18 businesses in GCIC’s business incubator and accelerator programme. The objective of the assessment was to identify the possibility of adverse environmental and social impacts emanating from the individual business operations to offer viable solutions. […]
GCIC’s 2022 National Green Business Roadshow Heads for Western and Ashanti Regions
Ashesi University’s Ghana Climate Innovation Centre (GCIC) is set to organize National Green Business Roadshows to meet and interact with climate-smart businesses in Ghana’s Western and Ashanti regions. The roadshows will offer an opportunity for the GCIC team to engage with private and public sector institutions, business hubs, and entrepreneurs in each of the regions, […]
Ghana Climate Innovation Centre Launches Investor Directory for Entrepreneurs and SMEs
The lack of access to finance and dearth of information about where entrepreneurs can seek financing for their ventures remain the biggest barriers for entrepreneurs seeking to scale within the entrepreneurship eco-system. As a response to this need, the Ghana Climate Innovation Centre (GCIC) on 2nd March 2020 launched the GCIC Investor Directory, Ghana’s very […]
Innovation for Our Future – The Ghana Climate Innovation Centre’s Incubating Innovation 2020 commences
Ashesi University’s Ghana Climate Innovation Centre (GCIC) commences its annual thought leadership programme, Incubating Innovation. Incubating Innovation’s series of forums, workshops and seminars focused on the entrepreneurial ecosystem, climate innovation, the green economy and building a climate-resilient economy commences on Monday 2nd March 2020 and will culminate in the Centre’s flagship annual symposium on Thursday […]
Climate Launchpad Ghana 2020 Commences
Climate Launchpad, the biggest global green business ideas competition, has opened applications for the 2020 edition in Ghana. Climate Launchpad 2020, which will be run in Ghana and 55 other countries, gives the opportunity to aspiring entrepreneurs to share their ideas and solutions to climate change and through the competition get a shot at growing […]
Planting Without Soil …A Young Entrepreneur’s Innovation
Innovation is what’s driving today’s world. That’s why businesses are told to innovate or die. One area where innovation is really needed on our continent is the agriculture sector – and a lot of startups are trying in this regard. This week, the B&FT’s Inspiring Startups caught up with a young man whose passion for […]
GCIC Peer Exchange Program Takes Ghana Bamboo Bikes Global
Bamboo Bikes Initiative is a social enterprise industrializing bamboo through the production of bamboo bicycles. Chief Executive Officer Bernice Dapaah, a Ghana Climate Innovation Centre (GCIC) Cohort 1 entrepreneur, in this article shares how her company arrived at internationally acceptable quality in standards of bikes produced through the GCIC Peer Exchange Program. She writes: In […]
