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200,000 Businesses Receive GH¢390m Stimulus Package

by John Kekeli
September 28, 2020
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Over 200,000 medium, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) have received their share of the special fund, set up by the government to cushion small and medium-scale businesses from the impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

The National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) indicated that by September 12, it had successfully disbursed some GH¢390 million out of the GH¢750 million Coronavirus Alleviation Programme Business Support Scheme (CAP BuSS) to 200,000 applicants

This means that the NBSSI has already exceeded its earlier 200,000 businesses target by the end of the disbursement.

The beneficiaries were selected out of about 800,000 applications and they received between GH¢900 and GH¢250,000 under what is known as the Anidaso and Adom special loans.

Businesses from sectors such as health care and pharmaceutical, manufacturing, agri and agri-business, water and sanitation, tourism and hospitality, education, textiles and garments, commerce or trade, and service benefited from the scheme.

The Executive Director of NBSSI, Mrs Kosi Yankey-Ayeh, in an interview in Accra on September 13, observed that the stimulus package was introduced by the government to support businesses that were directly affected by the pandemic.

About CAP BuSS

The CAP BuSS is a special fund set up by the government to cushion micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) from the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

The government set up the special fund with a seed capital of GH¢600 million and subsequently topping it up with GH¢150 million.

Its key objective is to help protect as many jobs as possible as COVID-19 rages.

Timely relief programme

Mrs Yankey-Ayeh observed that the scheme has disbursed GH¢390 million to 200,000 MSMEs in all sectors, in all regions and districts in the country.

“The CAP BuSS will indeed benefit as many eligible businesses as possible, to ensure their survival, as well as that of households that depended on such businesses.

“There is no doubt that this relief programme is timely and most welcome,” she added.

She said the special fund was categorised into Anidaso and Adom special loans, with an interest rate of three per cent, payable within two years after a moratorium of one year.

She explained that disbursements of the fund started in July with businesses in the Adom Micro category and were still ongoing.

“Disbursements of the Anidaso Loans (comprising businesses in the upper micro, small and medium categories) were also initiated in August 2020.”

Protecting jobs

The Executive Director indicated that with people losing their jobs through reduction of staff strength by businesses as a result of the negative impact of the COVID-19, the board was also working hard to support businesses, including those which had come out with innovations.

“Figures from the Statistical Service reveal that micro enterprises constitute about 80 per cent of the MSME sector; small businesses constitute 15 per cent, and medium enterprises one per cent.”

“So, the COVID-19 Alleviation Programme Business Support Scheme is expected to reach MSMEs in total.”

“We have done it in such a way that it is representative of the entire sector,” she said.

According to her, the COVID-19 had negatively impacted nations, including Ghana, and that some of the hardest hit Ghanaian businesses were in the category of MSMEs in both the formal and the informal sectors.

Those, she said, made up about 70 per cent of the Ghanaian economy, saying that “in view of this, the President, in his wisdom, set up the special fund as an emergency relief to these categories of businesses”.

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