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Minister of small and medium enterprise development, Elias Mubanga is in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia attending the global entrepreneurship congress (GEC) 2022 where Zambia stands to benefit through information exchange, possible signing of memorandum of understandings on development and growth of SMES.
In a press statement issued to ZANIS in Lusaka today the ministry’s permanent secretary, Yvonne Mpundu says the global entrepreneurship congress (GEC) is being held in collaboration with global entrepreneurship network (gen).
Ms Mpundu says the congress participants will discuss economic challenges the global entrepreneurial environment is facing, exchange experiences, seize investment opportunities and extract the lessons learned from challenges of the covid-19 pandemic.
The permanent secretary adds that the congress aims at establishing a sustainable and resilient unified global entrepreneurial environment for Zambia, Saudi-Arabia and globe at large.
She notes that Zambia is expected to participate on various platforms and meetings aimed at discussing resource attraction for Zambia, strengthening the ecosystems and investment in the Zambian SMES among other important topics scheduled, during the congress.
The 2022 Riyadh congress is being held under a theme “reboot, rethink, regenerate” the global entrepreneurship congress is expected be a gathering for investors, policymakers and community leaders and will run from march 27 to march, 30, 2022.