AWCCI Magazines Afghan Women in Business (Issue 2)

Clothing and Handicrafts Association session AWCCI participation in Arg supper ceremony Ms. Manizha Wafeq, the President of AWCCI and 20 businesswomen attended ceremony held by Arg, Presedential Palace on the occasion of In- dustry Week on May18, 2019 at Chaharchenar castle. Ms. Wafeq talked on women occupation and activities in the industry sector. Besides, AWCCI attended a supper ceremony that was organized by Arg, the Presidential pal- ace on the occasion of Industry week on May 23, 2019. Ms. Wafeq on behalf of Afghan busi- nesswomen community delivered speech and had recommendations on women products pri- ority, businesswomen encouragement by peo- ple in high ranks, attention on industry growth, the establishment of a separate procedure for renting state property for women, awareness raising for executive staff, annual budget al- locations to each ministry in research and de- velopment department, support for domestic products, especially in the dairy industry, and donors for the private sector, especially for women. In addition, she emphasized on separate tax regulations, Tax incentives for women so wom- en will be encouraged and can get in the econ- omy Pierre and officially enter to the formal economy. At the end, Mr. President asked AWC- CI to submit the recommendations in a detailed way as a draft for them. AWCCI held a session for establishing Clothing and Handicrafts associations for businesswom- en from Clothing, Hanicrafts and Embroidery sectors on 21 May 2019 at AWCCI main office. 16 businesswomen who were in the targeted sectors attended the session. this session begun with welcome note by Ms. Manizha Wafeq, the President of AWCCI. Ms. Wafeq added that organizing women into asso- ciations, consortiums or unions is the plan we are working on since last year and the main pur- poses of organizing women into consortiums are: integrating women of sector specific un- ions and networking among them, to ease the work with them, better management of their activities and connecting them to buyers. She emphasized on raising the quality of Afghan women’s products and asked the participants to always strive to maintain the identity of busi- ness women. As continued, Ms. Parwarish Oryakhail, AWCCI Business Development Services Director talked about the different aspects of creating associa- tions, further she added that one of the biggest achievements of establishing these associa- tions will be finding out the women businesses capacity in different sectors. She highlighted the procedure of creating association as fol- lowing: registering the association, receiving the license, preparing bylaw, and selecting the foundation members. Participants appreciated AWCCI’s efforts for women businesses promoting and develop- ment and said that they will try their best to attain the purposes of establishing this associ- #UnifyingOurVoice ation. #LetsCollaborateforaBetterresult AFGHAN WOMEN IN BUSINESS 7

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