Overall Industry Assistance

Working with the overall industry implies addressing common issues of the sector and creating a network of actors which facilitates information flow, sector promotion and collaboration. Main areas of overall industry assistance include, but are not limited to the following:

1. Assessment of industry potentials, problems, objectives and workplan
2. Assessment of tannery situation and potentials in Albania
3. Companies Directory and Database building
4. Thematic meetings/workshops on policy issues such as Customs Procedures, Free Trade Agrreement with EU, Clean Technologies in Leather Processing, Marketing Strategies, etc.
5. Publication (tri-lingual footwear brochure) and information dissemination (promotion of industry members to stakeholders and increasing network of partners)
6. Training of individual and/or group of companies on business improvement issues.
7. Lobbying with State Institutions on Footwear Professional Education
8. Export and/or domestic market research and buyers/selling meetings in the footwear sector
9. Industry promotion (fairs, study trips, portal, etc)

 

Firm Level Assistance

1. Business Development
2. Introduction of best management and marketing practices
3. Market and policy information
4. Promotional services
5. Export and domestic market services, etc