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More than 15,228 beneficiaries have received support both in grants and loans from the NBSSI/ Mastercard Foundation COVID-19 Recovery and Resilience Programme (Nkosuo).
The programme forms part of a partnership between the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) and the Mastercard Foundation and focuses on supporting MSMEs and start-ups in sectors such as Agriculture and Agro-businesses, Water and Sanitation, and Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals.
Other sectors are Garment and Personal Protective Equipment, the Creative Arts Industry, Manufacturing, Food and Beverage, among other things, to recover from the economic shock of the pandemic.
Those who received amounts not exceeding GH¢2,000 are food vendors, barbers, beauticians and dressmakers.
Creative Arts Industry bill finally passed into law
Ghana’s 7th Parliament in the 4th Republic has passed the Creative Arts Industry bill. What can now be called The Creative Arts Law is a legal and institutional framework to promote the Creative Arts industry.
The law incorporates the creative arts fund, which is expected to ensure the economic viability of the creative arts sector.
Commenting on the passage of the law on Thursday, 17 December 2020, The Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Barbara Oteng Gyasi said she was very happy the Creative Arts Industry Law has been passed and assuring creative arts stakeholders that it will soon be given the final assented by the President.
Before the December 7th polls, the Foreign Affairs Minister whilst campaigning against the Ghanaian actor said:
parliament is for serious minded people and not people who have done some movies and think they are popular .
The member of parliament for the Anyaa-Sowutuom constituency who was then touring the Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency with the President, also emphasized that
it is a serious place; I will tell him; the laws of the country are enacted in parliament . Foreign Affairs Minister, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey If our President can continue his job very well, he needs Lydia Alhassan in Parliament to do the job so that all you need as a constituency will be easily given to you, Hon. Shirley Ayorkor-Botchway concluded.