Centre for Promotion of Imports from Developing Countries (CBI Rotterdam) is organizing a series of 10 training workshops/seminars in Pakistan for the capacity building of Pakistani exporters. The workshops, scheduled for the period September 2009 to March 2010, are being organised in collaboration with the Commercial Wing of Embassy of Pakistan, Trade Development Authority of Pakistan and the relevant trade associations in Pakistan. The topics of the workshops include:

i) Exporting IT Services to the EU – September 2009
ii) Collective participation in European Trade Fairs – October 2009
iii) Market Access Requirement in EU for horticulture products  – November 2009
iv) Preparing for an effective participation in Heimtextil 2010 – November 2009
v) Market Intelligence on Home Textile Market in the EU – December 2009
vi) Market Access Requirements in EU for the Home Textiles – January 2010
vii) Export of light engineering products to the EU – March 2010
viii) Market Intelligence on Garments Sector – February 2010
ix) Market Access Requirements in EU for the Garments Sector – March 2010
x) Post-harvest management of horticulture products - 2010

The above-mentioned programme of training activities in Pakistan represents a manifold increase in CBI’s activities in Pakistan. Indeed, it is CBI’s largest ever engagement in one year in Pakistan.

Besides these training activities in Pakistan, Pakistani exporting concerns are also participating in the CBI’s Export Coaching Programmes (ECP) on fresh fruits & vegetables and fashion sportswear. An ECP of CBI is a 3-5 years’ capacity building programme for the exporters from developing countries. It is one of the best export-oriented entrepreneurship development programmes organised by any organisation in the world.

The Commercial Wing of the Embassy of Pakistan has been closely coordinating with CBI for these development cooperation activities in Pakistan.