Government Partners with GACTI to Facilitate 10,000 Jobs at AFROMART 2026
The Ministry of Labour, Jobs and Employment (MLJE) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Global Africa – ACP Chamber of Trade and Investment (GACTI) to execute AFROMART 2026, a continental-scale employment and trade fair.
This is designed to create 10,000 live job opportunities within a single 72-hour event.
The partnership represents a collaboration between government and the private sector to tackle one of Ghana’s most pressing challenges: youth unemployment.
With over 3 million young Ghanaians currently seeking employment, AFROMART 2026 aims to deliver tangible, immediate opportunities while establishing a sustainable, continuous digital job matching platform, jobbank.com.gh, enabling employer recruitment and worker advancement into the future, transforming what could be a one-off event into a persistent infrastructure for employment matching.
AFROMART 2026 – Africa One Market Trade & Job Fair will be held in the latter part of this year in a 72-hour continuous programming format.
The event is expected to draw over 75,000 physical attendees, pre-register more than 100,000 job seekers, engage 300+ employers, host 1,000+ exhibitors from over 60 countries, and mobilise more than $1 billion in investment interest, the Coordinator of the project stated.
The three-pillar event structure integrates a Trade and SME Marketplace, a comprehensive National & Global Job Fair, and an Investment Forum and Deal Room, creating an integrated ecosystem that addresses employment, commerce, and capital formation simultaneously.
“This partnership represents a fundamental shift in how Ghana approaches employment creation; we are moving from policy statements to practical action. This is not a conference or a symposium; it’s a job aggregation and deployment machine that will deliver concrete opportunities to our citizens in real time.”, said the Minister for Labour Jobs and Employment, Dr Rashid Pelpuo, during the signing ceremony.
The Ministry’s partnership with GACTI aligns AFROMART with Ghana’s National Employment Policy, the government’s 24-Hour Economy initiative, and the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agenda.
The designation of the event week as the National Week of Employment further elevates the event’s strategic importance and signals the government’s commitment to employment creation as a national priority.
“This is far more than a traditional job fair,” explained Prince Davidson, Global President of GACTI.
“We are building a permanent infrastructure for employment matching in Ghana. The job seekers who register will gain access to a persistent platform with artificial intelligence-powered job matching to public and private sector jobs in Ghana, within and outside of Africa, such as the GCC, Europe, Canada, the Caribbean and the Americas. Other services will include interview scheduling, skills assessment, and employer connections.”
The 10,000 jobs created during AFROMART will be just the beginning, but the platform will continue generating opportunities”
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