The Executives of IOPG met with a 3 member UNIDO delegation in Accra this afternoon to discuss possible areas of cooperation between the two institutions and strengthen the packaging industry in Ghana. The meeting was held at the Royal Crown Packaging Limited.

The UNIDO team briefed IOPG on past and current partnership projects with WPO and successful packaging centres established in Lebanon, Jordan, Cuba and other countries.

IOPG narrated its journey over the past 19 years including the transition from the UNIDO supported Packaging Cluster, Packaging Training programmes and its role in the establishment of the African Packaging Organisation.

The UNIDO team is in Ghana in connection with the recently launched project – “Expanding the Kaizen initiative by enhancing sustainable agribusiness.” The project aims at supportting Ghanaian agro-processing MSMEs to improve their enterprise performance.