CIPE recently conducted business association management training programs for Egypt and Haiti.
With funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (U.S. AID), CIPE and the Federation of Egyptian Industries (FEI) co-sponsored training to improve management of business associations and chambers in Egypt. This was the first major program jointly sponsored by CIPE and FEI, and it proved to be CIPE's largest training program ever, with an attendance of 124 staffers and board members from eighteen Egyptian chambers and associations.
In addition to the FEI itself, half of its affiliated chambers participated. Some of the other groups that were represented included the Travel Agents’ Association, Egyptian Business-women’s Association, Dairy Products Association, Egyptian Society of Economic Journalists, and the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt.
CIPE's training program in Haiti included 21 business association executives representing 15 organizations. One third of these executives were women, who represent an important constituency in Haiti's efforts to get back on its feet economically.
Funded by the National Endow-ment for Democracy (NED) and co-sponsored by CIPE and the Center for Free Enterprise and Democracy (CLED), a CIPE grantee, this program was highly successful.
Since 1985, CIPE has conducted nearly 50 business association management training programs around the world involving some 1,400 participants.