ANIMA – Members and Partners of ANIMA gather in Cairo for the General Assembly
Published on 18 June 2019
On 18 June 2019, Cairo hosted the ANIMA Investment Network members to hold their General Assembly and organise an Open Forum aiming at designing the new strategies and activities of the network for the next years.
The meetings were organised at the Ministry of Investment and International Cooperation by GAFI – General Authority for Investment and Free Zones, founder member of the ANIMA network and host of the international delegations mobilised in Cairo on this occasion.
The ANIMA Investment Network Annual Meeting was chaired by the President of ANIMA, Mr. Abdelkader Betari (Agence de l’Oriental, Morocco) and Mrs Ola El Kobrosy, Vice Executive Director of GAFI.
Mrs Ola El Kobrosy presented the recent successes of Egypt in reforming its investment environment and gaining in attractiveness and presented the Investment Service Center of GAFI during a visit which impressed a lot the participants.
The meeting then focused on the question “How to promote investments with high impacts through the cooperation within an international network?”. Members and partners of ANIMA were invited to contribute with their ideas and propositions during the General Assembly which was followed by and Open Forum during which creative workshops were organised.
After a day of collective work, the audience decided on the following challenges to guide the activities of the ANIMA network over the coming years:
- Challenge 1: Improve the coordination and the communication between the member organisations and countries of the ANIMA network and support them developing common interests, complementarities, and share best practices and agendas.
- Challenge 2: Develop tools and initiatives to promote investments in the Mediterranean regions which will contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
- Challenge 3: Develop the cooperation between members organisations in sharing information and intelligence to support them in gaining in competitiveness.
- Challenge 4: Contribute to improve access to finance and investment from start-ups and SMEs, notably by supporting the development of national strategies in this domain.
Participants were then invited to design activities to overcome each of the challenges, and to engage their organisations in taking part in these activities.
“It is very important for us to associate all our members and partners in the design of our future strategies. What was decided today, it was elaborated by us, for us, and we will be implementing it together, with the Secretariat of ANIMA in Marseille, with the Board of Directors and with all the members of our network” reported Abdelkader Betari, President of ANIMA.