The government has announced plans to amend the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) Act to legislate the purchase of made-in-Ghana goods and enhance local manufacturing as part of its 24-hour economy policy.

Briefing Parliament on the flagship programme at the 2025 Post-Budget Workshop, the Presidential Advisor on the 24-hour economy, Goosie Tanoh, stated that the initiative aims to support transformation in the manufacturing sector while promoting local consumption.

“Other components of the 24-hour economy is a programme called Go Ghana. And that Go Ghana is basically a mobilisation programme where every Ghanaian who cares about their community, about the country, will give in their effort to be able to do whether it’s environmental sanitation, but also buying made in Ghana goods.

“So the only way to institutionalise it is look at the PPA law and see how we can offer a guaranteed offtake for local manufacturing and local content so we can grow our economies, learn from the Asian tigers who made it a priority to buy their own goods, and today look at where they are and how everybody compares us to them,” Tanoh stated.

He added that although the policy would be private sector driven, the government will seek minimal funding in the mid-year budget review.