Chamber Trade Sweden held our annual event gathering Swedish stakeholders to listen to the broad range of programs and activities we are running. The event gave a perspective on promoting the three pillars of policy advocacy, member services and networking. Several of our key experts and consultants spoke at the event tying into the challenges […]
Elizabeth Thande is the chairwomen for the CTS partner AWAN in Kenya, she is an accomplished entrepreneur and a leader and rolemodel for aspiring women. In April of 2014 she was the recipient of the the 2013 World of Difference 100 Award recognizing up to 100 extraordinary women from around the world who have contributed […]
Starting as an exchange of ideas and contacts in 2009 the partnership between APINDO and Chamber Trade Sweden has developed into encompassing a multiple agenda still with focus on business development. 2013 has been a year packed with activities always focused on taking the next step in building capacity, contacts and competence for the two […]
A delegation consisting of 8 Scandinavian companies spent some intensive days in Indonesia looking for business contacts in October. Aided by APINDO and CTS business meetings were set up and implemented. Out of the 10 companies that visited Indonesia all met potential business partners and all will continue with cooperation and business with their new […]
Chamber Trade has during the fall conducted three seminars on industrial development, step 1 with Addis Ababa, Botswana and Zambia’s chambers of commerce. The seminars consisted of two parts. On country level the aim was to gather stakeholders to discuss industrial development and strengthen the capacity to advocate towards government and the voice of business […]
The fashion association of Indonesia, APPMI, has made a decision. In order to be competitive towards the international market Indonesian fashion needs to be sustainable. The result is a Green Movement agenda which includes representatives from companies, organisations, academia and government. The next step is the creation of an Eco Label that will be launched […]
CTS hosted a European meeting on December 9-10 for its European partners in the TRIC network which deals with trade related instruments, specifically promoting trade and exports from developing countries. The TRIC network consists of key actors in European trade promotion such as CBI of Holland, PSDF, IPD and GIZ of Germany, SIPPO and SECO […]
Regional trade and investment in ICT, agribusiness and green technology were the focus areas of the Nordic Southern Africa Business Summit gathering over 180 companies in Cape Town from Southern Africa and the Nordic countries and 50 in Gaborone Botswana a few days later. It was magic to see the Swedish and other Nordic companies network […]
Ida Backlund, CEO of Rapunzel of Sweden, and Signhild Arnegård Hansen, owner of Svenska LantChips, are Sweden’s IWEC awardees 2013, a prestigious mentorship program encouraging women business leaders to grow their international businesses. International Women’s Entrepreneurial Challenge (IWEC) is this year held in Lima, Peru, on Nov 11-12. Watch the interview with IWEC Awardee Ida […]
Women entrepreneurs from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Zambia, Burundi, and Rwanda took part in a workshop for green technology in agribusiness on October 3-4 in Arusha, Tanzania. The workshop was organized by Chamber Trade Sweden together with its partners African Women in Agribusiness (AWAN) and East African Women in Agribusiness Platform (EAWiBP) with the goal of […]