The EMGN Autumn Academy 2023 “Credit Guarantee Schemes’ Strategy and Regulation” took place in Tunis on the 26-27 October 2023, organised by the Euro-Mediterranean Guarantee Network (EMGN), led by the Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association (EMEA), in collaboration with Center for Banking Research of Bayes Business School, and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), as part of the EMGN activities in the field of peer-to-peer learning and capacity development.
The EMGN Autumn Academy 2023 took place back-to-back with the 7th International MENA Guarantee Conference “Guarantee Institutions: Decades of Activity; Realities and Challenges” which was organised by the Tunisian Guarantee Company Sotugar in collaboration with the Euro-Mediterranean Guarantee Network (EMGN) and the Arab Guarantee, and took place in Tunis, on 24 – 25 October 2023.
The main aim of this academy was to share knowledge and good practices among Credit Guarantee Institutions (CGI) from South, East, and North Mediterranean partner countries around two main topics; regulation and greening strategy for CGIs.
On-site were present 27 Members of EMGN and external participants and associates including representatives for Tamwilcom Morocco, Sotugar Tunisia, CGC Egypt, Kafalat Lebanon, CGCI Algeria, bpifrance, as well as associates guarantee organisations from Kafalah Saudi Arabia, AECM, and guests from CGF Libya, Expertise France, FGAR Algeria, YLG Yemen, Qatar Development Bank, and AIS Group.
The Academy opened with an introduction by Nagla Bahr, Managing Director of CGC Credit Guarantee Company in Egypt and Chairwoman of EMGN and a welcome speech by Tahar Ben Hatira, CEO of Sotugar, followed by a welcome Address by EMEA President Prof. Rym Ayadi and the introduction to the Academy by the event moderator, Jost Wagner, Managing Director of the Change Initiative.
The EMGN Academy is promoted by the Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association (EMEA), the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). The Autumn Academy, was organised by the Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association (EMEA), Co-hosted by Société Tunisienne de Garantie (SOTUGAR)-Tunis, and facilitated by the Change Initiative.
The EMGN Academies are carried out as part of a project financed by the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) commissioned by the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany, namely: “Innovation Fund Jobs through Trade and Investment in the Southern Neighbourhood of the EU”.
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