Vice-President Dr Bawumia interacting with Dr. Eugene Owusu (left),
Special Advisor to the President on SDGs. With them is Frank Adu Jnr.
(right) Managing Director, CalBank.
Government has unveiled two separate funds –
the Green and Delivery Funds – intended to generate monies to facilitate
Ghana’s attainment of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs).
The initiative is being undertaken by the CEOs
Advisory Group on SDG established by President Akufo-Addo to help generate
resources to fund projects.
The selected CEOs from various corporate
organisations in the country have set for themselves to generate GH¢1 billion
within the next five years into the Green Fund to provide sustainable energy
and other commercial activities. This is also expected to create not less than
100,000 jobs along the line.
The CEOs have also committed themselves to set
up what they call the Delivery Fund into which corporate entities would be
paying 5% as part of their corporate social responsibility.
Speaking at a breakfast meeting held at the
behest of President Akufo-Addo at the Jubilee House in Accra yesterday, Vice-President
Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia said the President was fully convinced that the two funds could be a game changer in Ghana’s quest to
achieve the SDGs.
Dr. Bawumia was delighted in the fact that
Ghana has a history of being first in a lot of things including the first to
achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) One, among others, and the first
to set up these two funds to achieve the SDGs.
He called for hard work to be able to make it
happen, saying “the President counts on your support and that together we can
achieve this noble objective.”
The Vice-President said, “It is unacceptable
that our people continue to suffer extreme forms of poverty and hunger, and it
is not right for the people to die from preventable diseases, suffer
inequalities and injustices.”
It was for this reason he said the President
attaches the greatest form of importance to the goals and cherishes so much the
work that the CEOs are doing towards the implementation of the SDGs.
“This is because of what the SDGs represent for the development fortune; the President is fully committed to making Ghana a shining example in the implementation of the SDGs but stated that without the robust support and deliberate efforts towards scaling up private sectors engagement and investments, this acceleration would be a pipe dream,” he added.
By Charles Takyi-Boadu, Presidential Correspondent
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