The Addis Ababa Chamber of Commerce (AACCSA) is the eighth CTS partner to launch a Leadership Mentorship program for its member companies as part of the CTS Chamber Academy. One target group for the mentees participating is entrepreneurs with at least 5 years of business experience, that have a business plan and want to grow […]
The back side of the coin to all business and trade relations is handling commercial disputes. Africa is today underdeveloped in providing independent third party arbitration and mediation institutions for handling such commercial disputes. This raises the risk premium for doing business with Africa. Developing commercial dispute resolution capacity through chambers of commerce is thus […]
The annual world conference of IWEC, International Women’s Entrepreneurial Challenge, was successfully hosted by the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce in November. The Istanbul Chamber did a fantastic job in taking the baton from Chamber Trade Sweden, that hosted IWEC 2014 in Stockholm. It was indeed a great victory for IWEC to be held in Istanbul this […]
Chamber Trade Sweden hosted, in cooperation with Nido (Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation), a business forum gathering Nigerian business people from all over Europe to meet with possible new business contacts in Sweden. 40 Nigerian businesses met with 10 Swedish companies, mainly from renewable energy, communication and financial solutions’ sectors. The Nigerian market is the largest […]
After two successful Finland-Pakistan Business Summit events held in Islamabad in 2014 and 2015 it is now time to expand the event up to the Nordic Level. Over 300 participants and over 200 companies in total have joined the earlier events and the third one, now Nordic Pakistan Business Summit, is hosted in Lahore on February 7-9, […]
Chamber Trade Sweden visited the leading Women Business Member Organisation in Bosnia Herzegovina, ONE and the Foreign Trade Chamber of Bosnia Herzegovina in Sarajevo to identify possible partners for capacity building and linking Swedish and West Balkan business networks closer to each other. We also met with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia […]
Organizations in Africa are, for the first time, joining with counterparts in the US to promote the use of mediation as an appropriate method of dispute settlement. The American Bar Association has celebrated Mediation Week since 2011 and this year mediation bodies, chambers of commerce and other business organizations across Africa will be joining in […]
Starting out in 2013 CTS together with AWAN East Africa and East African Women in Business Platform launched an initiative to create a platform where women in agribusiness could get the technical and practical knowledge about Green Technology with a focus on Solar Energy, Biogas, Water management and Waste management. In August 2015 the first […]
Meet Peris Muriuki, Wamu Investments- a successful Kenyan exporter and social entrepreneur who has built a successful business including and impacting rural women. Peris is a founding member of African Women in Agribusiness Network and took part in the Spicy Kitchen Roadshow arranged through the CTS-AWAN partnership where she met and secured new trading partners […]
We were not able to make the Swedish Political Power week in Almedalen this year. Instead we were in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Kenya and Iraq making a difference for trade and developement. Read more in our newsletter here
