The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) is set to highlight major investment opportunities in the Ashanti Region and Western North Region through two Regional Investment Roadshows scheduled for this month.

The initiative is aimed at attracting new investments, creating jobs, and accelerating economic transformation across the two regions.

The roadshows are being held under the theme “Driving Local Investment – Unlocking Regional Potential: Mapping Opportunities and Mobilising Growth in the Ashanti and Western North Regions.” They form part of GIPC’s flagship Investment Opportunity Mapping Project (IOMP), which seeks to identify and promote viable investment opportunities across Ghana.

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

The events are expected to bring together municipal and district assemblies, traditional authorities, private sector leaders, development partners, and investors to discuss a pipeline of bankable projects across sectors such as agribusiness, manufacturing, tourism, real estate, mining support services, and logistics.

In the Ashanti Region, the forum will highlight more than three decades of investments facilitated by GIPC, including over 400 registered projects and an estimated US$3.4 billion in foreign direct investment. These investments have contributed to positioning Kumasi as a key commercial and logistics hub serving both Ghana and the wider West African sub-region.

Although the Western North Region is relatively new and has attracted fewer formally registered projects, investment profiling has identified significant 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 an opportunity for local businesses, the Regional Coordinating Council, and other stakeholders to present these opportunities directly to investors and financing institutions.

According to GIPC, the roadshows form part of its strategy to expand investment promotion beyond Accra by identifying and packaging district-level opportunities into investor-ready projects.

Activities during the events will include project exhibitions, stakeholder dialogues, business-to-business matchmaking sessions, and site visits. These engagements are expected to increase the visibility of both regions, strengthen investor confidence, and foster new investment partnerships.

Since launching the regional roadshow initiative in 2025, GIPC has organised similar engagements in the Volta Region, Oti Region, Central Region, and Western Region, profiling more than 90 bankable projects across priority sectors including mining, manufacturing, ICT, renewable energy, and agribusiness.

The Centre is encouraging domestic and international investors, financial institutions, development partners, and business associations to participate in the upcoming roadshows to explore the wide range of commercially viable opportunities available in the two regions.

The events 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.