APEX Brasil - Enterprise competitiveness (Track 4)
Start Date - End Date
16.04.2009 - 31.03.2012Project Objective
The overall purpose of the programme agreed between ApexBrasil and ITC is the provission to the former by the later of foreign trade training services to strengthen the capacity of ApexBrasil.
Track 4 is designed to create a team of Associates and Enterprise Management Development Advisers who are equiped with and authorised to use ITC's proprietary technology in the disciplines of strategy design and implementation planing and business diagnostics.Project Value
US$ 173,2362011 Actual Outcomes
All activities as per the project document have been finalized and negotiations are being held with APEX for the identification of new activities to be conducted with the project's savings.2010 Actual Outcomes
APEX has a group of trained professionals capable of delivering export competitiveness programmes aimed at strengthening the enterprise managers' capabilities to make strategic resource decisions to conduct export transactions. In addition, APEX staff members, and Projeto de extensão industrial exportadora (PEIEX) consultants, have a clear understanding of ECS Export Management Development (EMD) tools, materials, and methodologies aimed at improving export competitiveness, and those that show they have developed the skills and acquired the necessary knowledge will be certified as EMD advisers before the closure of the project. As part of the project 31 enterprises received assistance to inprove their export strategies and received a diagnostic report with recommendations to improve their export performance. It is expected that APEX makes use of these trained human resources as well as the technologies transferred to the institution to provide export management services to their constituents. Managers of the participating enterprises now have a deeper understanding of the strategic and management weaknesses of their business, and have received suggestions as how to improve the situation of their business.
Beneficiary Countries
2009Brazil
2010Brazil
2011Brazil
Donor(s)
Agência Brasileira de Promoção de Exportação e Investimentos (APEX)