LBWA reviews outcomes from the first three months
LBWA reviews outcomes from the first three months
Lao Businesswomen's Association (LBWA) members met in Vientiane to review the outcome of the first three months and set an activity plan for the next three months of 2015.
The meeting took place on Monday and was attended by the association's executive board and several members.
Speaking at the event, the President of LBWA Ms Chanthachone Vongxay said that in the first three months the association had unified, promoted creativity and led businesswomen to operate their businesses in line with State and government policy.
She noted that establishing international relations is one of the more important works for the association to seek assistance and collaboration, exchange lessons and develop knowledge on business operation and creating networks with international organisations.
Another side of their work is to carry out their obligations to integrate with the region, in particular their responsibility for becoming members of the Asean Women Entrepreneur's Network, said Ms Chanthachone.
S he explained that so far the association's executive board and members have attended several important meetings and seminars in foreign countr ies.
For example, the Asean Women Social Entrepreneurs in Thailand, the International Education Project on Idea, Invention, Innovation, the IP Seed Project in the Republic of Korea and the Regional Policy Dialogue on Empowering to Advance AEC Development in Thailand.
Other meetings attended were Corporate Strategies for Global Management and Competitiveness for SMEs in the Republic of Korea, the Asean Regional Conference on Sharing of Good Practice in Social Protection for Women in Enterprise Development, the Asean Outstanding Women Entrepreneurs Forum 2015, the Asean-Japan Female Entrepreneurs Exchange Programme in Japan and the Great Women-Asean Collection in Thailand.
T he most outstanding activity was attendance at the Asean Women Entrepreneurs Forum 2015 which is staged to exchange experience and ideas on ways to operate business by businesswomen who will be good role models for the new generation and to support and develop the capacity of women in the Asean region in terms of trade, investm ent, and networking to prepare for the start of AEC at the end of this year, Ms Chanthachone said.
For the next three months the association will continue to encourage more businesswomen to become members, collect information on the education level and real capacity of members so that the association will properly divide responsibility or assign them to attend meetings and seminars on various subjects, she said.
The association will recheck the register of members and if they find someone has failed to carry out their responsibilities and obligations to the association, they will delete their name from the list.
In addition, the association will create its own website, brochure and shirt logo as well as set a plan for the 11th Lao Food Festival in 2016, she added.
The meeting disseminated its regulations to all its members and also summarised the outcome of the recent 10th Lao Food Festival which they organised.
