DUSHANBE, April 8, 2009, Asia-Plus — On Tuesday April 7, IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, held a seminar on the results of training of inspectors and representatives of small and medium businesses, press release issued by IFC Tajikistan said.
Members of different ministries, government institutions, banks, international organizations and business associations shared their training experience and discussed future plans on extension of partnership groups with a goal to improve the quality and assessment of entrepreneurs’ training results.
In the course of two years IFC has trained 311 trainers from Business associations, international and state structures on the following subjects: inspection rules and procedures, entrepreneurs’ and inspectors’ rights and obligations during the inspection and new rules of receiving a patent for the individual entrepreneurial activity. Trainers and partners organizations have then trained more than 3 600 entrepreneurs in different regions of the country and distributed printed materials produced by IFC.
“Trainings and roundtable meetings helped us greatly in developing and establishing relationships between entrepreneurs and inspection bodies. First of all, entrepreneurs have become more confident and are now more interested in learning about their rights. We would like IFC to conduct such events on different subjects more often,” says Mirali Qodirov, Deputy Director of the Entrepreneurship Support Center in Dushanbe.
In these trainings IFC distributed among trainers a “What do entrepreneurs need to know about inspections?” brochure, developed together with the specialists of State Committee of Investment and State Property Management of the Republic of Tajikistan. IFC is now conducting trainings using a new brochure on tax inspection rules and is producing a leaflet on the rules of receiving a certificate and patent for individual entrepreneurs, prepared together with the Tax Committee.
“Our joint printing materials lead to a more visual and fundamental understanding by entrepreneurs of the main rules and legal procedures in the sphere of doing business, as well as the rules of conducting an inspection, hence they raise the information level and legal knowledge of entrepreneurs in Tajikistan,” says Wendy Werner, IFC Country Officer and Manager of the IFC Business Enabling Environment Project.
IFC’s active training partners are UNDP, OSCE, MSDSP, ACTED, Center of Entrepreneurship Support in Dushanbe, TajPromBank, Eskhata Bank, Sughd Business Association. The IFC BEE Project is working to improve inspections, permits and taxes and to raise entrepreneurs’ information level. It is supported by donor partners, Switzerland’s State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID).
