Women encouraged to create jobs

Alldens Lane, a business advisory and consulting firm has urged women entrepreneurs to embrace strategic leadership responsibilities and adopt innovative measures to serve as job creators in the economy.

It said research affirms that today’s young and emerging business leaders would ultimately provide responsive solutions to Africa’s critical economic and social challenges and in doing so create jobs whilst driving social mobility.

A statement issued in Accra by Mr Lambert Akwa, Communications Officer Alldens Lane said a report by Forbes Insight report identified key sectors of growth for the African continent.

He explained that after a series of decisive surveys among 4000 young people from 16 to 40 years from Ghana, Angola, Mozambique and Nigeria, 50 per cent of Ghanaian respondents pointed to job creation for the younger generation as a priority.

In the Ghana case study, respondents considered entrepreneurs 33 per cent; technology 44 per cent; education 35 per cent; Government 31 per cent; and foreign investment 23 per cent as drivers of job creation over the next five years.

The report said entrepreneurs and business owners in particular would represent 53 per cent of job creators over the next five years. 

The report said to help women-owned businesses grow and create jobs, there is the need for a deliberate improvement in their access to capital, the global supply chain and business networks, all of which could help them scale up.

It said data from the World Bank, the World Economic Forum and other organisations continue to demonstrate that women-owned businesses could be the tipping point for a global economic comeback.

Alldens Lane are business strategy advisors.  The firm has a unique focus on providing women-owned and women-led enterprises with advisory support, business direction, and thought provoking business performance and growth analytics, from which they could grow and transform their businesses and their lives.

GNA