The Institute for Music and Development (IMD) has been in existence since 2004. The IMD is a member of the Arterial Network, the African network for artists and Art professionals, and the International Network for Cultural Diversity. Some of IMD's major projects include both the Accra and African Creative Cities project in collaboration with the City of Accra, the Arterial network and UNESCO.
 
The City Forum on Culture and Development was organized by IMD and partners in 2010 and enabled civil society to make presentations and sensitize ministers and the parliamentary commissions.  An offshoot of the City Forum for Culture and Development was the creation of the Creative Industries Sector Medium-Term Development Plan of the Ghana Shared Growth development Agenda.  This became government policy and led to the creation of a Ministry for the Creative Industries
 
IMD is also the administrators of the Ghana Denmark Cultural fund (GDCF) established through collaboration with the Danish Government and the Danish Center for Culture and Development.  In the seven years of its existence, it has supported many projects and given voice to artists to articulate their work, helping to raise awareness of the direct linkage between art and fundamental environmental and existential questions confronting various communities.
 
Other projects include New Music Ghana.  This is a national competition that invites young musicians to use music styles and instruments found in their respective traditions and from these traditions create original contemporary music.  The ultimate goal will be making New Music an all-African festival, and to create a new sound of the continent, leading to productions and distribution awards.
 
As a member of the Arterial network, Ghana through the IMD won the bid to host the African Fund for Arts and Culture. The Fund is to be based in an African country with the necessary infrastructure, macro-economic policies and sound financial systems, managed by Africans with the requisite skills and experience that will fund all aspects of the arts, culture and heritage being practiced by Africans on the African continent.