The President of the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI), Pharm. Kofi Nsiah-Poku, together with the Vice President for SME, Mr. Dela Gadzanku; CEO of AGI, Mr. Seth Twum-Akwaboah; hosted the leadership of the AGI Women in Business (AGI-WIB) at the AGI National Secretariat.

The AGI-WIB delegation was led by their Chairperson, Dr. Mrs. Grace Amey-Obeng, and included the Vice-President, Dr. Mrs. Maureen Erekua Odoi, and the Media and Communications Head, Ms. Ama Ablorde.

The AGI-WIB team formally welcomed the President and shared their key focus areas for the year, including improving access to affordable finance, expanding market access for women-led businesses, strengthening membership and youth engagement, and growing their Seed Fund to support operations and women entrepreneurs.

In his remarks, Pharm. Nsiah-Poku commended the women for their commitment and emphasized the importance of targeted training in record-keeping, costing, packaging, productivity, and financial discipline to enable women and micro enterprises to scale sustainably. He also highlighted the need to prepare members to become loan-ready, strengthen cooperative models, improve market access, and adopt innovative strategies to grow AGI’s membership base and resource mobilization.

Representatives from the AGI Secretariat at the meeting were Mary Turkson, Policy and Research Department, and Coordinator for AGI Wonen-in-Business and Ms. Francesca Alokpa, Personal Assistant to the President and CEO,