Gambia Investment & Export Promotion Agency

GIEPA wish all its staff, Board, partners, BDS Advisers, Trainers, Empretecos, and all other stakeholders a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year. We thank you all for your service and support through 2018. MAY THE NEW YEAR 2019 BE A YEAR OF FULFILLMENT OF ALL OUR DREAMS......

GIEPA is delighted to announce the beginning of the installation of a 21st century Communication and Content Management System (CMS) by our sponsors QLink Investment SA Geneva – an international IT and Software giant with base operations in the UAE (Dubai) and around the world. QLink Investment SA pledged to support and partner with the Gambia Government in May 2018, at the Donor Round-table Conference held in Brussels, at the EU Commission, to support our country’s National Development Plan (2018 – 20121) core pillars anch**ed on E-Governance and Digital Economy. QLink being the foremost company in these areas, is an IT Company registered in Geneva that has worldwide presence in Dubai, Qatar and other parts of the world.

The entire support package will include hardware, software and capacity development worth hundreds of thousands of US Dollar, which will transform GIEPA into a model for the rest of government agencies in The Gambia to emulate. The system will make the entire workflow system to be completely paperless leading to increased speed of work within GIEPA while improving efficiency in our response in dealing with other partners. The plan is to install, deploy and launch the system’s Phase 1 by end of January 2019.

This development came after series of engagements, include stakeholder Conference in E-Government - Smart Government and Digital Economy held in the country in August 2018, followed by investment understudy and technical mission tour to QLink’s Investment establishments in Dubai, led by the Investment Promotion and Facilitation Department Director of GIEPA, together with high level government dignitaries and technicians from MOFEA, MOICI, GAMTEL/GAMCEL, PURA and Brikama Area Council.

The staff of QLINK have this to say “We would like to take this opportunity to register our thanks and appreciation to the role GIEPA is playing in helping us fulfill the pledges we made to The Gambia Government to support the National Development Plan’s core pillar in E-Governance and Digital Economy”. Momodou Drammeh Empretec Gambia Kerr Jula Gcci Gambia Chamber of Commerce and Industry - GCCIMinistry of Information and Communication Infrastructure - MOICIKodou Sengh**eNogoi SaineSadibou JammehJallow BaapaLamin DamphaLamin Dampha

The Four-day Business Development Service ToT for selected advisers for GIEPA's Export Advancement Ptogramme has been successfully completed at NaNA. The Advisers are equipped with skills and tools to make export-ready businesses for Gambia. Thank you GIEPA once again for another milestone which has been supported by the Entrepreneurship and Private Sector Development Project funded by UNDP.

The 49th Entrepreneurship Training Workshop organised by GIEPA and Empretec Gambia has been successfully completed at the Entrepreneurship Development Centre at Bakau. 31 entrepreneurs have been equipped with the competences and behaviours of successful entrepreneurs. These youths are ready and able to change the economy of the Gambia with their innovative businesses.

Thanks to UNDP and Ministry of Trade for funding another 6days of Entrepreneurship Training Workshop.

GIEPA team had a meeting with the delegation from Turkey on Agricultural trade policy for OIC Member Countries to enhance Intra OIC Trade volumes in Agriculture products.

The management of GIEPA wishes to inform the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in The Gambia that it has secured funds from African Development Bank to support small businesses in their quest for expansion and growth in order to create wealth and sustainable jobs. The support is in the form of equipment and machinery financing where 80% is a grant and 20% is paid back within 18 months, with no interest and an allowance of two months grace period is allowed before payment begins.
For those who are interested in applying can fill in the attached application form and submit either by email to [email protected] or drop the filled and signed copy at GIEPA Main Office on Kairaba Avenue on or before 5th December 2018.
The application should be submitted with the following documents
1. Business Registration of the Enterprise
2. Proof of Business/ Entrepreneurship Training Certificate
3. National Identity Card/ Birth Certificate/ Passport
Eligibility Criteria
1. Successfully complete a recognized business/ Entrepreneurship Training
2. Must be a registered Enterprise
3. The enterprise must be operational and have the potentials to grow and be innovative
4. Must be Gambian and between the ages of 18 and 65
5. The requested amount must not exceed D200,000 for existing businesses and D85,000 for start-ups. Empretec Gambia Kodou Sengh**e Yusupha Keita Seedy Bittaye Carlos Gomez Nogoi Saine Momodou Drammeh Sadibou Jammeh Gam Chamber Gcci Yep Gambia Gambia Chamber of Commerce and Industry - GCCISuwaibou ChamDavid Jeng Kebba Sillah Fatou Saine Gaye Fatou Manneh Fatou Mbenga Jallow Jallow Baapa Hassan Lamin Mokendeh Darboe Modou Nsz N'jie Baboucarr KebbehIsmaila Sambou Niani Edrisanjie Kanda

Application form can be collected from GIEPA main office on Kairaba Avenue

Giepa and Empretec Gambia is please to graduate another badge of entrepreneurs after undergoing a six days of intense Entrepreneurship Training Workshop. The trainees are fully equipped with all the necessary skills and competences and are now ready to build businesses that will create industries, wealth and sustainable job opportunities for youths. Congrats to the 48th badge of entrepreneur's.

The 47th ETW of Empretec Gambia organised by GIEPA came to a close today in Bakau. The CEO of GIEPA in his closing remarks Hassan Jallow emphasised the need for the participants to remain motivated...disciplined and apply all the competences learned form the workshop. Busi Bango from Zimbabwe enjoined the participants that only us Gambians will develop Gambia and we should take our rightful roles in the economy of The Gambia....The participants were inspired by Chan KHAN Mendy... Empretec Gambia Momodou Drammeh Yusupha Keita Kodou Sengh**e Sadibou Jammeh Momodou Sabally Jama Jack

GIEPA signed a joint MOU with The One Belt One Road (International) Rsearch Institute and The British Commonwealth Economic and Cultural International Investment Group. The MoU centres on areas of corporation for all parties that are mutually beneficial. GIEPA WILL facilate inward investments from China and from Chinese in The Gambia and while GiEPA would access to the Chinese market and investors through an operational office and presence in Beijing to be facilitated by The One Belt One Road (International) Research Institute and The British Commonwealth Economic and Cultural Investment Group in China. Empretec Momodou Drammeh Kodou Sengh**e Jongama Yataru Yusupha Keita Suwaibou Cham Fatou Janneh M'bai

GIEPA is conducting a two-day training for staff of IOM - The Gambia on entrepreneurship ecosystem in The Gambia at NaNA. The event was opened by the CEO of GIEPA Hassan Jallow. Mr. Jallow applaused the move by IOM to contact GIEPA who are expects when it comes to entrepreneurship in The Gambia. The training will include a stakeholder dialogue tomorrow with key stakeholders in the entrepreneurship ecosystem in The Gambia. Empretec Gambia Kodou Seng h**e Hassan Khadra Mina Jallow Nogoi Saine Mariama Saine Momodou Drammeh fatou Fatou Saine Gaye Ida Abdoul Qadri Ceesay Drammeh Ida