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GLOVPRO to boost local leather value chain

Partnering for growth: Margit Hellwig-Bötte, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany, at the GLOVPRO launch PIC: LEA FACEBOOK
Partnering for growth: Margit Hellwig-Bötte, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany, at the GLOVPRO launch PIC: LEA FACEBOOK

The Local Enterprise Authority (LEA) is set to take 15 Batswana as the first cohort of a newly formed training initiative dubbed Leather Gloving Project Botswana (GLOVPRO) which will produce personal protective equipment.

Last Friday, LEA signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the new initiative with partners who include the Botswana Chamber of Mines, Ministry of Agriculture, the European Union (EU) and the Joint Action Support towards Industrialisation and Productive Sectors (SIPS).

SIPS is a SADC Secretariat programme supported by the EU and the German government to facilitate the expansion of regional value chains and promote dialogue between the private and the public sector.

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