Program Components and Participants:
Trade Fair:Shoe leather garment and goods and tannery, leather processing machinery producers, leather chemicals, leather products, accessories and component suppliers.
Buyers/sellers Meeting: International buyers, out sourcing interests and sellers.
Investment Forum: Investment promotion organizations, joint venture seeking organizations, investors fully supported by UNIDO
Pan African Competitiveness Forum: African representatives, TCI members, industry representatives, international development partners, NGO's, government representatives, knowledge institutions, etc supported by USAID and SIDA
Date: January 24- 26, 2008
Venue: International Convention Center, Addis Ababa- Ethiopia
Organizer: Ethiopian Leather Industries Association
Co-organizers: UNIDO, USAID-ATEP and the Ministry of Trade and Industry of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (MoTI), World Bank, GTZ-ecbp.
The Ethiopian Leather Industries Association (ELIA) is a non-profit trade association of the leather industries businesses. ELIA works with the objective of enhancing and improving the leather industries business climate by promoting export of shoes, leather goods and garments and leather, protecting the rights of members, and assisting businesses to improve.
Ethiopian Leather Industries Association