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provided business expansion support in four years of annual Bibi Khadija Award and creating
the Made by Afghan Women trademark to introduce top products of Afghan women made with-
in and outside the country in collaboration with the Ministry of Industry and Commerce.
AWCCI will keep on the hard work to develop Afghan women businesses and give them a nation-
al and international level recognition.
AWCCI’s President Ms. Manizha Wafeq not only spoke at the panel of the competition of Best
SMEs and Entrepreneurship Development about above activities and accomplishments of AWC-
CI but also spoke in another panel “Chambers and Startups” highlighting from her experience
the importance of Chambers to do policy advocacy for the startups and to provide them the
platform to engage and network with experienced businesses.
It is worth mentioning that AWCCI’s participation in such a world class platform was possible
due to its membership and support of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Afghanistan
Chapter. AWCCI would like to thank all its supporters specially H.E. First Lady of Afghanistan,
the Ministry of Industry’s and Commerce, ICC Afghanistan, ICC’s World Chambers Federation,
International Trade Center (ITC), Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), Afghanistan
International Bank (AIB), Roshan Telecom, the Institute for Economic Empowerment of Women
(IEEW) and the country of Brazil, the city of Rio de Janeiro for their hospitality.
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