WAIPA Annual Report 2011

WAIPA Report of Activities 2011-2012
WAIPA- ITAP Training for Central Asia,
Astana, Kazakhstan
March 5-7, 2012
This WAIPA training was the first
joint initiative between WAIPA
and the ITAP Program (of the
Islamic Development Bank –
IsDB). The training was opened by
Khalid Kalafallah of ITAP, Kairat
Kharmanov of Kaznex Invest, and
Carlos Bronzatto of WAIPA. This
was also the first WAIPA training
event held in Central Asia, and
counted on the participation of
IPAs from Russia and most of the
other CIS countries in Central Asia:
Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan,
as well as the host, Kaznex Invest –
of Kazakhstan. The workshop was
also attended by MIEPO of Moldova
and TIDA of Tatarstan.
Training began by exemplifying first
steps to be taken to identify, classify
and monitor the behaviour of those
industries and services overseas
that match their “country offer”. Then
it approached the steps that lead to
identifying in-country sectors that
might be comprised by the offer. The
OECD officer Gregory Lecompte
contributed to the training by
sharing the experience of the sector
competitiveness studies recently
conducted in neighbouring countries,
as well as in Kazakhstan.
As regards the sharing of
experiences, the Invest Sweden
and UKTI officers Rolf Rising and
Raul Karbhanda explained how
their IPAs identified and classified
leaderships, referring to the need
of monitoring these and adopting a
CRM system. Sweden has focused
on how the IPA countries also seek
to establish feasible Investment
Projects, as part of their offer. A
private consultant trainer explained
the grounds for generating and
cultivating leaderships.