The Ministry of Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development (MLGDRD) has held a stakeholder engagement meeting with the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) on the validation and roll-out of the Investor Grievance Mechanisms (IGM) to help resolve conflicts between Investors and Government Agencies.
The meeting was held at the Ministry as a follow up on a number of meetings held to discuss the validation of a draft guidelines on the IGM.
The IGM is a problem-solving mechanism which serves as a mediator between an investor and a Government Agency. This initiative is to help ensure that the investor is heard and also the laws of the country are adhered to when there is a conflict.
The delegation from GIPC stated the important role MLGDRD has to play in ensuring the success of the IGM initiative at the local level and sought for the support of the Ministry to help roll-out the project and validate it to make it official.
The team from MLGDRD led by Madam Priscilla Attipoe, the Deputy Director for General Administration raised concerns about the need for exploring exhaustibly the avenues for making a complaint, stressing the need to be stated in the document that, all avenues of resolving a conflict between an investor and a government agency must be explored at the Local Governance level before the IGM is engaged.
The team from the Ministry assured GIPC of their unwavering support and their feedback to help draft a final document for validation before it is rolled-out.
RHODALINE ABBA
MLGDRD, PR