Vietnam enterprises trained to advise on trade policy
By Thu Nguyet - The Saigon Times Daily
HCMC - The first training course in the European Union’s project which aims to increase Vietnamese enterprises’ capacity to make recommendations on Government trade policy starts Monday.
The three-day on-the-job-training is part of the project called Capacity Building on Trade Policy for the Vietnam Association of Small & Medium Enterprises (VINASME) which is implemented by SEQUA (German Business Association) and VINASME.
The 30-month project which began late last year is funded with nearly 250,000 euro by the Delegation of the European Union to Vietnam and part of the Multilateral Trade Assistance Project III (EU-Vietnam MUTRAP III). The project is expected to make enterprises’ voices heard in the process of making and implementing new trade policies of the Government.
Representatives of business members of VINASME from many provinces nationwide are training to be counsellors to run trade nuclei which are groups of export oriented enterpreneurs in one location. Trade nuclei will share knowledge, challenges and ideas to make the Vietnamese association a professional consultation partner for the Government on trade policy.
According to Gerhard Weber, project coordinator in SEQUA, a new trade policy which fits local enterprises’ real demands should be made from recommendations of insiders. Small groups of enterprises in the same trades often have the same challenges and they know what they actually need, said Weber, the trainer of the course.