The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) will this month spotlight high-potential projects in the Ashanti and Western North Regions through two Regional Investment Roadshows aimed at unlocking new waves of growth, jobs, and regional transformation.

Held under the theme “Driving Local Investment – Unlocking Regional Potential: Mapping Opportunities and Mobilising Growth in the Ashanti and Western North Regions,” the roadshows are being organised under GIPC’s flagship Investment Opportunity Mapping Project (IOMP).

The Centre will host the Ashanti Regional Investment Roadshow on Wednesday, 11 March 2026, at the Golden Beam Hotel in Kumasi, followed by the Western North Regional Investment Forum on Friday, March 13, 2026, at the Western North Regional Coordinating Council.

Both events will bring together municipal and district assemblies, traditional authorities, private-sector leaders, development partners, and investors to engage on a pipeline of bankable projects spanning agribusiness, manufacturing, tourism, real estate, mining support services, and logistics.

In the Ashanti Region, the forum will highlight over three decades of recorded investments facilitated by GIPC, featuring more than 400 registered projects and an estimated US$3.4 billion in foreign direct investment. These investments have helped position Kumasi as a strategic commercial and logistics hub serving both Ghana and the wider West African market.

While the Western North Region is relatively young and has so far attracted a modest number of formally registered projects, detailed profiling has identified strong opportunities in large-scale cocoa and cashew cultivation, agro-processing, timber and sustainable forestry, responsible mining, and cross-border trade and logistics with Côte d’Ivoire.

The Western North forum will therefore provide a platform for local businesses, the Regional Coordinating Council, and other partners to present these opportunities directly to investors and financing institutions.

Both events form part of GIPC’s proactive engagement strategy to extend investment promotion beyond Accra by identifying, validating, and packaging district-level opportunities into investor-ready projects.

Through project exhibitions, stakeholder dialogues, business-to-business matchmaking, and site visits, the Ashanti and Western North engagements are expected to enhance the visibility of the two regions, deepen investor confidence, and catalyse new partnerships.

Since launching the roadshows in 2025, the Centre has held similar engagements in the Volta, Oti, Central, and Western Regions, profiling more than 90 bankable projects across priority sectors such as mining, manufacturing, ICT, renewable energy, and agribusiness.

GIPC is encouraging domestic and international investors, financial institutions, development partners, and business associations to participate in the Ashanti Regional Investment Roadshow and the Western North Regional Investment Forum, and to take advantage of the diverse pipeline of commercially viable and socially impactful opportunities these regions offer.

The roadshows are being organised in collaboration with the Office of the Chief of Staff, the Ministry of Trade, Agribusiness and Industry, the Ghana Free Zones Authority (GFZA), the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA), and the 24-Hour Economy Authority, with support from MTN Ghana and the respective Regional Coordinating Councils.