PAIiIZ: Polish companies to penetrate African markets

Under its GoAfrica Programme, the Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency (PAIiIZ) will organize this year business missions to Poland from several African  countries such as South Africa, Mozambique and Kongo as well as economic missions from Ethiopia, Tanzania and Angola, the agency informed. Botswana and Morocco will be among new business destinations. “We are preparing a workshop with the World Bank on the procurement system. This is a good channel of starting business with Africa," said the deputy minister of foreign affairs Katarzyna Kacperczak. PAIiIZ has organized 38 promotional events, including five business missions attended by 3,300 Polish businessmen, seven path finding missions and two trade fairs. The Agency also published eight guides on African markets. GoAfrica programme has been created by the Ministry of Economy to support Polish companies entering African markets as well as to increase Polish-African trade. In years 2012- 2014 trade of both partners increased by 25 percent.