Cabinet okays BEDIA-IFSC merger draft bill

Last Thursday, Trade and Industry Permanent Secretary, Banny Molosiwa, said while the bill awaits parliamentary consideration, consultants have begun work on organisational design and job profiling.

"The company started work on 14th January 2011 and is due to complete on 31st March 2011. The purpose of the consultancy is to review, analyse and rationalise the core functions of the Botswana Export Development and Investment Authority (BEDIA) and those of the Botswana International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) with a view to creating a new organisational structure under which the rationalised functions shall be executed," she said in a press statement.