ALLPI workshop focuses on development of business plans

17/08/2018
The Africa Leather and Leather Products Institute (ALLPI), formerly known as COMESA-LLPI, organised a workshop in Mombasa, Kenya at the start of August to offer information about how to design and implement a business plan within the leather industry.

The organisation said this event took place under its mandate to develop the leather sectors in its members states and in Africa in general. 

The participants, mostly drawn from government ministries and the private sector, came from 12 countries: Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eretria, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. 

The objective of the workshop was to improve the ability of members states to support businesses in their respective leather industries. It included an activity that saw the participants split into three groups before creating a business plan related to a selected institution. 

At the end of the training, it was agreed that the participants would pass on the knowledge they had gained to the leather industry stakeholders in their countries.