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Services
ABIC ’s core economic development competencies and expertise are primarily in international trade promotion and investment attraction, domestic resource mobilisation, enterprise development, urban development, local content programme development, sector research, analysis and development, cluster development, inclusive business and value chain development, public-private partnerships, and local economic development.
Business Development
Africa Business Solutions services include: conceptualising projects; developing results frameworks; monitoring and evaluation processes; recruiting staff; and identifying technical partners.
Investment Attraction
Assisting governments in their efforts to develop initiatives, programmes and policies to retain local investment and encourage foreign direct investment.
Innovation Promotion
Assisting government and private sector industry support organs to develop programmes, projects and institutions to promote knowledge economy development initiatives, develop better understanding of international intellectual property structures and the benefit of protecting indigenous products and processes toward fostering economic growth.
Micro-enterprise Finance Programme Development
Assisting public and private sector clients in developing institutions and designing programmes to provide enterprise development finance to micro-enterprises.
Urban Renewal
Assisting governments in developing programmes, projects and in establishing specialist institutions that support economic development and redevelopment in urban communities and which seek to foster economic linkages between learning institutions, existing economic nodes, transportation corridors and deprived/ disadvantaged areas within municipalities.
Local Economic Development/ Community Development
Designing appropriate strategic interventions at local government and regional levels to support poverty reduction initiatives, job creation, entrepreneurship, skills development, enterprise formation and expansion, public-private partnership, investment attraction, and, broadly, economic growth.
Export Promotion
Assisting public and private sector trade promotion institutions to design appropriate programmes and interventions to assist local enterprises in their efforts to assess their global competitiveness, understand the complexities of international trade and related payment structures, identify prospective export markets, and to develop effective marketing and market penetration strategies.
Project Mississippi Development Authority
Objet More than 3 years providing easy access to the African Markets
Market Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Senegal, Kenya, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Middle East
Project ASTUREX Asturias Development Agency
Objet provision of commercial support services and advice to Asturian companies
Market Magreb Countries (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia)
Environmental Development
Assisting government in developing programmes and projects focused on greening communities, developing and incorporating renewable energy into communities and promoting conservation and recycling.
Rural and Peri-urban Development
Assisting government in developing policies, programmes, and projects focused on supporting rural communities, with a particular focus on agricultural development, agribusiness, cooperative and social enterprise establishment and rural economic growth.
Sector and Cluster Development
Assisting government to conduct global competitiveness assessments of their economies and to design and develop programmes, projects and to establish institutions to promote certain products and to develop related, integrated, sector clusters to help them grow, flourish and be competitive in the global environment.
Project SOLAR CLUSTER
Objet To promote cluster cooperation and a networking approach among relevant stakeholders, i.e. identifying and supporting strategic linkages and synergies among firms and between them and their support institutions to help them jointly face threats and take advantage of opportunities in the local, regional and international markets;
Markets: Africa
Public-Private Partnership Development
Assisting government and private stakeholders in developing mutually beneficial collaborations that support local, national, regional and continental economic development and sectoral agendas.
Value Chain Development and Expansion
Africa Business Solutions services include: helping off-takers/ lead firms to establish links with SMEs and/ or producer groups and vice versa, or working with governments and development partners to facilitate public-private linkage programmes.
Investment Strategy and Facilitation
Africa Business Solutions services entail: developing investment attraction strategies for companies and geographic regions; implementing fundraising campaigns, (including preparing investment memoranda/ business plans/ investment briefs and facilitating road shows and investment missions).