AWCCI Magazines Afghan Women in Business vol 4 | Page 13

This time, AWCCI led and held the Second Na-
tional Women’s Entrepreneurship Summit on No-
vember 21, 2019 at Kabul Serena Hotel with the
presence of more than 200 businesswomen form
20 provinces of Afghanistan. This program took
place in continuation to the last year’s program
consisting of business matchmaking between busi-
nesswomen of provinces, introducing growth op-
portunities for their businesses and networking
among them. Besides, a panel of government and
private sector dignitaries, workshops on business
topics, and an exhibition was organized. Kamela Sediqi, and Ms. Khwaga Kakar. In this
part, panelists shared their success story, challeng-
es and recommendation with other women. The
panelists shared their past experiences and they
encouraged businesswomen to invest on Afghan-
istan’s resources.
en development and appreciation and this summit
is also one of the AWCCI’s effective programs
for recognition and networking among business-
women. Later on, Ms. Shahrzad Hirji congratu-
lated AWCCI board of directors and executives
for holding such program and she further talked
about the related activities of Agha Khan Network
in different provinces of Afghanistan. asked how to reach cilibreties for introducing our
products for, in response to her question Ms. Mo-
hsina Saqeb said it depends on your own products
quality and method of interacting with clients.
AWCCI’s partners such as WEE-RDP, Agha
Khan Network, Ghazanfar Bank and Presentation
by Horticulture Value Chain Development Pro-
gram on their grants delivered presentations to the
attendees of program. The presentations were on
services for women or entities activities in differ-
In this program, Ms. Spozhmai Wardak, Technical ent provinces of Afghanistan. The presentations
and Policy Deputy of Ministry of Women Affairs, focused mainly on the
Ms. Amena Ahmady, Director General of Revenue
at Ministry of Finance, Ms. Shahrzad Hirji, Am- In fourth part, two parallel workshops organized.
bassador of Agha Khan, Ms. Nargis Nehan, For- One workshop held under the title of “Market-
mer Minister of Mines and Petroleum, Mr. Ab- ing” and the other workshop held with the title of
dul Qadir Bahman, President of ICC, Ms. Kamela “Business Management”. In marketing workshop
Sediqi, Former Trade Deputy Minister of Industry Ms. Parwarish Oryakhail, Business Development
and Commerce and Founder of Kaweyan Group of Services Director was the facilitator, and Ms. Mo-
Companies, AWCCI Board of Directors, AWCCI hsina Saqeb, President of Jama Saqeb Handicrafts
Board of Directors and more than 200 business- Company and board member of AWCCI; and Ms.
women from different provinces of Afghanistan Kamela Sediqi, Founder of Kaweyan Group of
participated.
Companies delivered presentations related to the
Marketing. The marketing presentation was deliv-
Ms. Spozhmai Wardak in her speech appreciated ered in three parts: marketing based on production,
AWCCI for holding Second National Women’s marketing based on exports and Made by Afghan
Entrepreneurship Summit and about program said Women Trade-mark. During the presentation a
that AWCCI has always worked for businesswom- businesswoman from Herat related to the topic
In the business management workshop Ms. Man-
izha Wafeq was the facilitator, Ms. Zahra Sarwary,
the President of Royesh and member of AWCCI
board and Mosawer Azami of RomanSam Con-
In second part of the program, a Panel “Tips to sultancy Services Company delivered related pres-
succeed” was organized with the participation entations to attendees of the workshop. After-
of Ms. Amena Ahmady, Ms. Nargis Nehan, Ms. wards, for better understanding and knowing each
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