Mr. Simone Cipriani, Chief of Technical Adviser of Ethical Fashion Initiative Head for Poor Communities and Trade Programme Sector Competitiveness of the International Trade Center (ITC) paid a courtesy visit to COMESA/LLPI on May 26, 2015.
Mr. Simone was warmly welcomed by Prof. Mwinyikione Mwinyihija, Executive Director of COMESA/LLPI and the Institute’s Experts Team that was followed by a very friendly and fruitful discussion.
The discussion focused on areas of collaboration between COMESA/ LLPI and ITC and the ITC- SITA project. Mr. Simone expressed the ITC’s readiness to work with COMESA/LLPI to support the development of the leather sector in the region.
The two parties agreed for collaborative activities that include, but not limited to, the activities listed below:
- Execution of the SITA project, which will run for the next 5 years targeting Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania;
- Facilitate the development of COMESA/LLPI to become a Centre of excellence and innovation in the development of the leather sector; supporting designing, ethical fashion, positive environment impact, capacity building and finishing;
- Placement of experts at COMESA/LLPI in the areas of pattern making and cutting;
- Improve global awareness of the importance of the COMESA region leather value chain through, information and knowledge sharing (develop a movie jointly with COMESA/LLPI);
- Train COMESA/LLPI staff on Performance Compliance Monitoring and Evaluation (PCME); etc.