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Background
Alexandria Business
Association began its activities in 1983 to provide support to the
private sector, promote the interests of the business community,
provide networking opportunities, consolidate business and social
ties and present members’ views
to the government.This
concept soon developed beyond advocacy to encompass community
service. The Alexandria Business Association was registered in
March 1988 as a non-profit, non-government organization.
ABA Mission
Developing a pro-active approach as a professional business
association in representing and supporting its members’ interests in
the business environment in Alexandria, Egypt and abroad.
ABA Vision
Boosting the city of Alexandria industrially, economically and
socially, enhancing Alexandria’s role as an important business hub
in the region by improving workforce education and training,
encouraging international business investment and opening new
markets thus helping achieve economic prosperity and worldwide
recognition.
ABA Activities include:
1) Lobbying, undertaken separately and in co-operation
with other bodies in the Egyptian society.
2) Providing members with information about the general
business environment, with knowledge and know-how, and with keys of
access to foreign markets, in order to improve their capability to
face the challenges of globalization.
3) Social services, as part of a business community
that believes in its responsibility to improve the welfare of its
employees, their working and living conditions, and in shaping the
future of their communities.
Services provided to Members:
1- Provide members with current information
about local and foreign markets.
2- Organize seminars and events that address economic
issues of interest to businessmen.
3- Organize business delegations to visit foreign
markets and participate in government missions.
4- Organize receiving trade missions from different
countries around the world.
5- Receive trade leads and business opportunities and
disseminate them to ABA members.
6- Correspond with government officials on behalf of
its members to solve their problems.
7- Organize training courses in collaboration with
donor programs to upgrade the business capabilities of its members &
their staff in ABA state of the art training center.
8- Receive draft copies of government projects before
being issued to provide input.
9- Present studies and concepts papers to the
government to strengthen the role of the business community in the
economic decision making strategy.
Projects:
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Small & Micro Enterprise Project
- Moubarak-Kohl Program for Dual Education
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Alexandria Center for International Arbitration
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Feeding the Poor Project
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Towards Self-Employment Project
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Orphans Sponsorship Project
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