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CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP FOR WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS OF WOMEN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION/DRC FOR EXPORTS IN ZLECAF

After 5 days of training in Kinshasa focused on a good understanding of the issues of the African Continental Free Trade Area-ZLECAF, the
Congolese women entrepreneurs grouped within the Women Business association are now able to improve the quality of their products by respecting standards throughout the process up to export, but also to access financing to conquer the ZLECAF market and thus promote products made in Congo on the international market.

The strategic conquest of this common African market requires the training of producers and exporters but also of the staff of the Foreign Trade administration to fully master the rules of the ZLECAF and competitors, said Jules Muilu Mbo, Secretary General for Foreign Trade,
proceeding with the delivery of patents to these women entrepreneurs who have the mission of training others throughout the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Congolese Government will support you in this challenge which will allow the DRC to increase the volume of its exports, one of the key objectives set by the Minister of Foreign Trade, Julien Paluku Kahongya, he added.

Very proud of the quality of the training received, Betty Mulanga, President of Women Business association-RDC reassures of the implementation of the knowledge acquired and asks the Government to make the bar code available for the promotion of products made in Congo on the international market

It is the visit to the commercial stands in which the products made in Congo are displayed, the fruit of the work carried out by these women which sanctioned this ceremony