The visit started off with a short scenic walk from Ashesi to GCIC led by Patrick Awuah Jr., Founder and President of Ashesi University- Ghana CIC’s lead consortium partner. Other members of the consortium-  EY, SNV and UNU-INRA- were also in attendance.

Her visit also gave Ghana CIC a chance to highlight the tremendous impact it was making through its entrepreneurs. She got a chance to interact with Ashesi students who had interned with some of the GCIC entrepreneurs, as they shared the impact and learnings from their experience.

She also heard from some of the entrepreneurs in the Ghana CIC incubator (both current and alumni), Ashesi students with student-led businesses that are part of the GCIC Ashesi incubator and got to experience some of the entrepreneurs’ products first-hand through the indoor GCIC exhibition prepared.

The Ghana Climate Innovation Centre (GCIC) is a pioneering business incubator whose objective is to support entrepreneurs and ventures involved in developing profitable and locally appropriate solutions to climate change mitigation and adaptation in Ghana. The Centre’s key focus is on building businesses operating within the areas of energy efficiency, domestic waste management, solar energy, water supply management and purification and climate-smart agriculture. GCIC is part of the World Bank Group’s infoDev Climate Technology Program. Supported by the governments of Denmark and the Netherlands, the Centre is managed by a consortium led by the Ashesi University College and including Ernst & Young, SNV Ghana, and the United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa.