Report from a seminar "Effective state administration and business management as a basis for economic development - support for small business in Belarus."
On 24-25 November in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, in hotel "Belarus", a seminar was organized within the scope of the programme: "Effective state administration and business management as a basis for economic development - support for small business in Belarus." The organizer of the seminar was the Foundation Eastern Institute, the organizer of the Economic Forum in Krynica and Minsk based Capital Association of Entrepreneurs and Employers. The seminar was held under the auspices of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and with the support of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Belarus. The seminar was attended by nearly 100 owners of small and medium size enterprises from entire Belarus.
The experience of Polish organizations representing the interests of entrepreneurs, including industry associations, was presented by Michał Konwicki - a Director of the Polish Chamber of Commerce. The participants in the seminar were very interested in foreign cooperation of Polish business associations and benefits from membership in international organizations.
Particular interest was attracted by the lecture of Wiesław Pokładka, the Head of Trade and Investment Promotion in the Polish Embassy in Minsk, entitled „Polish-Belarusian Trade exchange - export-import cooperation, export consortia". During animated discussion, the participants mentioned many times the topic of the current status of cooperation and the possibility of its fast development.
The participants in the seminar devoted also considerable attention to a very extensive presentation of the possibility of cooperation between entrepreneurs and local self-governments in Poland presented by Bernard Stawiarski, the head of Chełmiec commune, the biggest commune in Poland. The lecture „The experience of local and regional cooperation between the business sector and central and local state administration." Belarusian businessmen were very interested in how local self-governments can support small and medium size enterprises from their constituencies. And here the discussion was heated, and many questions were thoroughly explained by the commune head Mr Stawiarski, whose commune has experienced a big investment boom in recent years.
The training programme was supplemented by the lectures presented by the representatives of the Institute. Jerzy Bochyński, the President of the Eastern Institute, delivered a lecture: „Management and leadership in the company- how to manage people to make them follow the leader? Good practices and know-how." Paweł Piszczek, the Director of the Press Office, discussed the topic: „Use of modern IT technologies in the company - Internet in marketing strategy, tools and forms of telemarketing, how to establish an electronic sales branch and how does it function?"
ENPI CBC Absorption Capacity Building-Support to Retsmunebulis Aparati - Sharing Polish Know-how. GEORGIA
The overall objective of the project was to provide the potential beneficiaries of ENPI CBC BLACK SEA in Georgia with so-called project application know-how. While the project was primarily targeting Retsmunebulis Aparati i.e. the governors` offices, judged to be the weakest link within the Georgian administration chain, it embraced as well other categories of Georgia-based CBC eligible entities Sakrebulo/self-governments, NGOs, public agencies and universities. The project included a study tour to Poland (intensive trainings sessions combined with field visits to projects sites in North Eastern Poland) for selected representatives of Retsmunebulis Aparati form three Georgia`s regions - Guria, Kakheti, Kvemo Khartli and follow-up seminars in Tbilisi open to representatives of other beneficiaries. The activities were designed to offer a maximum of practical tips and hints on how to prepare a successful proposal. Drawing on Polish experiences in the filed, the project still tended to remain close to Georgian reality and needs (being duly assed beforehand). Proposal Writing Handbook (GEORGIAN VERSION TO BE DOWLOADED HERE) worked out within the project stands as a unique Georgian language publication of this type and is currently employed by RCBI during its training activities in Georgia.
The project was founded by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs within POLISH AID.
