ITC to deliver regional packaging training seminar in Ghana
The International Trade Centre will deliver a training seminar in
collaboration with the Institute of Packaging Ghana (IOPG) between 4 and 9 July
in Accra.
Private Sector Network to strengthen the international competitiveness of small-
and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), funded by the European Commission through
the Pro€Invest Programme.
This training programme will build capacities in the area of packaging of
15 participants, who at the end of the programme will be able to train and
advise exporting SMEs in packaging in the African English-speaking countries
during the overall project lifetime and beyond, thus differentiating and
maximizing the added-value of goods exported from the region.
The seminar will bring together participants from Kenya, Uganda and
Ghana who have been selected by ITC in collaboration with its counterpart
international organizations in the three countries: Kenya Bureau of Standards
(KEBS), Uganda Export Promotion Board (UEPB) and IOPG. The training will be
delivered by three senior packaging experts along with the Chief of ITC’s
Enterprise Competitiveness Section, Mr. Jacky Charbonneau and the director of
IOPG, Mr. Kofi Essuman.
Patricia Francis, Executive Director of ITC, says: ‘Packaging is a pre-requisite for
successful market access and for increasing revenues from export. Technical
assistance on packaging was highlighted as a priority by our partners in Africa
and this training is part of a broader development challenge to strengthen
enterprise-level initiatives in the region.’
The overall programme is designed to reinforce the capacities of
intermediary organizations in Africa, in their ability to increase their
contribution to, and impact of the Aid for Trade agenda, by means of creating
strong networks of enterprise level experts available and used by the
intermediary organizations (IOs) in Africa for capacity building African
exporting SMEs.
For
SMEs to develop and grow sustainable exports it is critical that they have
access to business development services adapted to their needs today, as well
as the longer term. This new initiative is designed to continue the tradition
of long-term technical capacity-building by ITC in the region.
