Assessing the Socio-economic Impacts of Gas Commercialization in Ghana and Positioning Ghanaians to Take Advantage of Emerging Opportunities in a Sustainable Manner:

Enhanced knowledge and entrepreneurial skills of the citizenry in the Western Region (the Ellembele District in particular and Ghana in general) to establish natural gas-related enterprises for improved livelihoods and/or sustainably managed environment. 1. Better-informed citizenry capacitated to take advantage of business opportunities presented by the gas project and empowered to monitor the environmental impacts on their communities. 2. Establishment of Natural Gas-related Small and Medium Scale Enterprises facilitated.