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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.

Project Invest in Extremadura

Objet To support to promoters and entrepreneurs in all stages of the investment and / or reinvestment process that they undertake in the región. 

Market Magreb Countries (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia)

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.

Project  CDTI

Objet Innovation programme on Energy Technologies

Markets Moroccan-Spanish Co-operation

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.

Project  European Regional Development Fund

Objet Support for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from different Region of Spain for their internationalization processes in Africa 

Markets Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Senegal

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.

Projet SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY PLATFORM

Objet Promoting energy-efficient and safe driving of

professional drivers in Morocco

Markets Morocco

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.

Project: CODESPA

Objet A future without exclusion for young people, generating opportunities thanks to training

Markets Morocco

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.

Project  ANDA

Objet Market Research in order to promote the development of sustainable aquaculture  

Market Morocco

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.

Project: African Development Bank Group

 Objet Knowledge tranfer  for the Agri-Food SME´s Trans-formation 

Markets: Africa

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.

Project  ADA – PPP Agriculture

Objet Agricultural investment projects allowing a good valuation of this land while creating employment in rural areas 

Markets: Morocco

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.

Project  ASMEX

Objet Support and advice for export players

Markets: Morocco

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).

Project  European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

Objet Developing international strategies Programme for companies for their international expansión

Market Morocco