Support women-led businesses to ensure success of AfCFTA – Kosi Yankey

Chief Executive of the Ghana Enterprises Agency, Kosi Yankey-Aryeh, is calling on African leaders and private sector players to sponsor regulations that seek to sponsor women businesses on the continent.

According to her, the formalisation of women-led businesses and entrepreneurship is essential to ensure that the African Continental Free Trade Agreement, AfCFTA, becomes successful.

Speaking at a capacity building workshop for women traders in the ECOWAS sub-region, she called for the speedy completion of the Protocol on Women in Trade to facilitate greater trade opportunities for women under the AfCFTA.

“To ensure that the maximum benefit from AfCFTA is derived, we believe that the AfCFTA would not happen until it is properly and effectively implemented. Accordingly, government has undertaken series of public sensitization workshops across the length and breadth of the nation to update the private sector on the implementation of the AfCFTA protocols and the operational requirement in the effective training in the market.”