Small & Medium Enterprise Management Advisory Services
Evaluated the performance of sixteen (16) medium-sized business concerns belonging to the EMPRETEC Forum of the EMPRETEC Ghana Foundation. A diagnostic study was done to assess their needs. This formed the basis for the establishment of the Business Development Planning Fund funded by the European Union. Client: European Union (EU)
JYA undertook a survey in four regions (Ashanti, Greater Accra, Northern and Western Regions) of Ghana on the infrastructural constraints of the private sector. In all, three hundred small scale and 50 medium/large-scale enterprises were interviewed. A baseline of the infrastructural constraints was compiled. Client: World Bank
JYA was selected as one of the key management consulting firms at the inception of the Business Assistance Fund of the Government of Ghana, in the last quarter of 1994
JYA reviewed the operations and management of twelve (12) distressed small and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs), mainly in the under mentioned sectors of the economy and has prepared Business Plans for each of the enterprises for consideration by the Business Assistance Fund (BAF) Secretariat of the Government of Ghana.
The areas of operations of the enterprises include:
- Leather and Tanning Production (Non-Traditional Export Sector);
- Fruit Juice Production;
- Alcoholic Beverage Production;
- Animal Feed Production;
- Copra Oil and Animal Feed Production;
- Lumber and Veneer Production (Export Sector);
- Tyre Retreading (Non-Traditional Export Sector);
- Carbonated Drink Bottling;
- Aluminium Products Manufacture (Non-Traditional Export Sector);
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Under the National Institutional Renewal Programme (NIRP), JYA is a member of the Innovative Services team that prepared the policy guidelines, as well as the organization and management re-engineering plan for the partial commercialization of the Forest Research Institute and Oil Palm Research Institute (OPRI)