Japanese Jika inspects the mechanisms for providing non -financial services to small projects in Beni Suef Governorate

Japanese Jika inspects the mechanisms for providing non -financial services to small projects in Beni Suef Governorate

A delegation from the Japanese Agency for International Cooperation (JICA) visited the Beni Suef Governorate branch of the Project Development Authority in addition to visiting a number of industrial projects in the governorate in order to complete the activities of cooperation with the agency in the field of developing business development services; To learn about the financial and non-financial services provided by the agency

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Head of the Project Development Authority’s Central Sector for Non-Financial Services Raafat Abbas explained that the organisation offers technical assistance for a variety of projects, noting that collaboration with the Japanese side in the area of developing business development services reflects the significance of non-financial services in the beginning and development of projects as well as the trust of international financing institutions and development partners.

The purpose of the visit was to initiate technical collaboration and experience sharing between the agencies in order to produce a project proposal to improve business development services offered to project owners and entrepreneurs.
Professor Montaser Rushdie, Director of the Authority Branch in Beni Suef, presented the financial and non -financial services provided by the agency for projects owners who wish to establish new projects, in accordance with the Law on Projects Development No.

152/2020, in addition to the services for women and recent graduates, as well as the agency’s initiatives in support of fruitful gatherings.

Additionally, the mechanism of the one-stop-wing unit’s operation in the branch, which is used at the level of the device’s branches (33 branches), was reviewed. This is a qualitative shift in facilitating the availability of services to customers and accelerating the pace of service provision, including opening tax files for customers, issuing the commercial registry and insurance number for the project as well as issuing Temporary and final licences and the issuing

In order to determine the most crucial services offered and needed by manufacturers, the delegation visited the Baydar Al-Arab region and the small industries complex and spoke with representatives from a number of industrial projects in the fields of (drying medicinal and aromatic plants, the household appliance industry, the carpet industry, and the fertiliser industry).

In Beni Suef Governorate, Japanese Jika examines the procedures for offering non-financial services to small projects.

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