AWCCI Magazines Afghan Women in Business (Issue 3) | Page 17

Businesswomen Associations’ sessions in this quarter Ever since AWCCI got the approval on 5 percent preference of gov- ernment contracts to women, AWCCI is determined to organize women into asso- ciations based on their business sector so that they can get and implement the con- tracts successfully . 9 Sessions on organizing businesswomen into associations for Clothing, Handicrafts, Jewelry, Food, Logistic and IT sectors held on third quar- ter of 2019 at AWCCI office. Participants of these session included both members and non-members of AWCCI. discussion on associations’ bylaw, 10 businesswom- en were selected as establishing board. Three peo- ple out of establishing board were elected as board of directors and three were elected as financial board. The process of election was transparent and members were firstly nominated and the ones with highest number of votes could go to the board. At the end all women were asked to work hard for maintaining the core values of the association and achieve the goals. The agenda for this sessions were preparing the as- sociations bylaws and electing the President and deputies for the association. Based on the agenda, with the participants’ recommendations and opin- ions, bylaw for associations were prepared. Besides AFGHAN WOMEN IN BUSINESS 13