There are six categories of potential awardees under this scheme as follows:

• Private enterprises engaged in socio-economic activity, that are domiciled and are operationally active in the Northern, North East, Savannah, Upper East and Upper West Regions, being on Ghana’s Register of Companies

• Public corporations/institutions engaged in socio-economic activity in any or all of the aforementioned regions, that are wholly or partly state owned;

• Private sector top level business entrepreneurs and corporate executives who are domiciled and working in the any of the aforementioned regions, irrespective of their nationality.

• Private sector top level business entrepreneurs and corporate executives who are not permanently domiciled and working in any of the five regions, but whose businesses are active within any or all of the Regions, irrespective of their nationality.

• Top level executives, of wholly or partly state owned public corporations/institutions active in any or all of the five Regions.

• Entrepreneurs/ top tier managers of businesses not active in any of the five regions but who hail from any of the regions.