WHY ICMC?
Institute of Certified Management Consultants (ICMC Ghana) is a Private Ghanaian Research, Policy Analysis, Evaluation, Consulting, Advisory, Training and Certification consortium and Institute with Individual members and Institutional Affiliates. ICMC GHANA was formed in 2014, to coordinate research, researchers, provide research management, support for research in a coordinated manner to support Ghana’s development Policy, Research, Evaluation and Consulting, Expertise and Training needed in several aspects of National development, Policy and business issues that Ghana faces.
ICMC is well connected with its corresponding global Management Consultants which enables ICMC Ghana (and PACCI) and their Affiliate AEIA to track genuine global Investment capital movements, in particular with reference to Investor interest and advisory in courting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Global Investment Capital to Ghana (and Africa) as Emerging Investment destination. ICMC Ghana and PACCI therefore know where genuine global capital is and how to court them to Ghana and Africa. This enhances its Investment Policy Advisory for both Public and Private Sector entities as to availability of Global Funds and the Investment Intelligence, strategies and tactics to court them. This is done in terms of providing global overview and specifics of funds available to Ghanaian and African entities in the global investment communities. It is also connected to Global Investment Networks which possess huge resources ready to be invested in Emerging Economies, in particular Africa.
Such a Private initiative for coordinating expertise for Policy Advisory, research, consulting, Capacity building is vital as Ghana strives to enhance its democratic and development fortunes, having moved from developing economy and achieved lower-middle income status as a sub-Sahara African Country, and having been rated as the fastest growing economy by the World Bank in 2017-2018. As Ghana seeks to advance its fortunes at several economic levels, it still faces a familiar challenge that has bedevilled Sub-Saharan Africa for decades. The Challenge of the sheer lack of/or weak capacity-including human capital capacity-that has made many to describe Ghana and Africa’s poverty as merely capacity poverty more than anything else. It is weak capacity that does not allow Ghana and many sub-Sahara African countries to take maximum advantage of their huge natural resources to develop themselves.
The quest for capacity in research, consulting, Training and expertise exhibited and translating in high quality policy advisory cannot be over emphasized therefore as imperative. The Contribution of ICMC Ghana’s private initiative to foster the Capacity dynamics of Ghana and Africa (through PACCI) comes in handy as useful, for providing needed knowledge and capacity to contribute in an independent manner to Ghana’s and Africa’s Economic and Development Transformation.
The Interconnectedness of Ghana’s development issues makes ICMC Ghana’s Transdisciplinarity approach to Research, Consulting and Capacity building rather uniquely impressive, in view of the vicious cycles of complex circular, reversal and cyclical challenges it has had to deal with. Being a Private initiative has not prevented ICMC Ghana from interfacing with and coordinating individual and Institutional Affiliates from both Public and Private Sectors, though it is struggling in particular with Research Funding which is not coming from Public sources nor Private sector, limiting the extent of its own research, and focusing rather on the time being on encouraging members research from several diverse research Institutions of their Affiliation, which has tended to be blessing in disguise in bringing multiplicity of research perspectives, paradigms and approaches, including basic research, applied research, policy research and evaluative research among others using multiplicity of methods including quantitative, qualitative, interpretive, critical, phenomenological, social science and mixed.​
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