THE FIRST OIC BUSINESS OWNERS UNION CONFERENCE

The 1st OIC Business Owners Union Conference" will take place on the 20th of August 2010 at Hotel Hilton Jeddah. The main speakers will be H.E. Professor Dr. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference and H.E. Dr. Ahmad Mohammad Ali, President of the Islamic Development Bank.
The "1st Business Owners Union Conference" will focus on encouraging the large strategic commercial projects in the Islamic world, which will help increase the national income of the OIC countries and create plenty of new employment opportunities for the youth. The meeting will be attended by around 1000 businessmen from 27 countries and the Presidents of Federation of Chambers in OIC member countries.

The Ugandan Business community will be well represented in this conference with a delegation of several business owners here in Uganda led by the President of the Uganda National Chamber of Commerce and Industry Mrs. Olive Z Kigongo.
Uganda stands to benefit from this forum in the following ways,
•    Access of Uganda’s products to the Middle East markets.
•    Business match making and attraction of foreign direct investment as we unveil the opportunities in Uganda to the OIC countries.
•    The business delegates from Uganda attending this conference will get the opportunity of meeting the president and officials of the Islamic Development.

This is yet another opportunity for the Ugandan Business community to harness in the Islamic countries’ opportunities.

The UNPD Regional Implementation Team, on behalf of various UN/Peacekeeping Missions in Africa, hereby invites qualifies contractors from all countries to submit their Expression of interest for the provision of freight forwarding and customs - customs services for port of entry/exit and freight forwarding/transportation. Please be reminded that the deadline has been extended to 15th August 2010. Click here to download the EOI.

The Uganda National Chamber of Commerce and Industry in conjunction with the Ugandan Embassy in Moscow, Russia and the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry are organizing a Business Forum and Exhibition as part of the Russia-Africa inter parliamentarian Conference in Moscow from 15 to 16 June 2010.

During this conference there will be an exhibition and a business forum. We are therefore privileged to announce to you yet another opportunity to do business with Russia.

Those interested to participate especially in key sectors in Uganda like Agro business, Agro processing, Machinery, Mining and Oil refinery e.t.c are kindly requested to come and register with the Uganda National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (UNCCI) Secretariat on Plot 1A, Kiira Road Mulago or call 0312266323, 0776121034, and 0752724300.

Uganda is a strategic central trade hub for the East African Community (EAC) and Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) trading blocs. For example, the country has managed to present itself as a link necessary to leverage trading benefits in the resurgent lucrative markets in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Rwanda and the Southern Sudan. Sights are now set on increasing trade with Ethiopia, Djibouti, Eretria and Somalia. The Customs Union protocol came into force in 2005 and by 2007 the total intra –EAC trade had increased by 22% from USD 1342.6 million to USD 1,973.2 million.

The UNCCI with clear research made a presentation to At the high-level forum on Public Procurement Reforms (PPR) in Africa: Sustaining Economic development and poverty reduction through the current Economic Crisis. In Tunisia