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GRATIS Foundation evolved out of the Ghana Regional Appropriate Technology Industrial Service (GRATIS) Project, which was established by the Government of Ghana in 1987and mandated to promote small-scale industrialisation in Ghana. To accomplish this mandate, GRATIS established Intermediate Technology Transfer Units (ITTUs) now designated Regional Technology Transfer Centres (RTTCs) in nine regions of Ghana to transfer appropriate technologies to small-scale industrialists through training, manufacturing and the supply of machine tools, plants and equipment. GRATIS co-ordinates the activities and provides backstopping to its network of RTTCs and also supports the activities of the pioneer ITTU established in 1980 at the Suame in the Ashanti Region by the technology Consultancy Centre (TCC) of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). |
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Initial funding for
the activities of GRATIS and the RTTCS was provided by the Government
of Ghana (GOG), the European Union (EU) and the Canadian International
Development Agency (CIDA). Shopfloor technical assistance and funding for specific projects have been provided by the British Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO), the British Department for International development (DFID), the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), the German Development Service (GDS), the Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV) and the Canadian University Service Overseas (CUSO). Instead of phasing out GRATIS after the establishment of the RTTC network, the GOG and other stakeholders agreed that it should be incorporated as a company limited by guarantee called GRATIS Foundation.This is to enable the Foundation to play a key role in Ghana's plans to become a middle-income country by the year 2020. |
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