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Winning Aid-Funded Business

Learn how UK Trade & Investment can assist your UK-based company in securing Aid-Funded Business contracts. Get expert advice, workshops, early project intelligence, and liaison officer support. Discover chargeable services, consultancy, and UKREP offerings. The course covers market introductions, project tracking, and custom research reports. Stay informed with daily procurement notices, newsletters, and customized reports. Join UKTI-led missions for networking, presentations, and meetings with multilateral banks. Explore opportunities in education, TVET, and ICT sectors, and enhance your bidding strategies. Access advanced AFB courses for specialized training. Contact info@afbs.org.uk or call 0845 603 0084 for more details.

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Winning Aid-Funded Business

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  1. Winning Aid-Funded Business A training course delivered by Nigel Peters, Director of the UKTI Aid-Funded Business Service UKCDS & UUK London 5 November 2012

  2. How can UK Trade & Investment help me win Aid-Funded Business?

  3. The UKTI Aid-Funded Business Service is available to give advice to any UK based company Cheryl Boxall Project Manager Nigel Peters Project Director

  4. Enquiry Answering: Assistance for companies looking at AFB for the first time or looking to supply an unfamiliar agency • Events: Awareness raising events (often with our liaison officer network,) training, outward missions • Publicationsfocusing on the UN, World Bank, Regional Development Banks and the European Commission

  5. Liaison Officers based in overseas British Embassies/Consulates: Washington DC Vienna Stuart Baird/Justin Kersey Miles Fisher New York Manila Ben Brierley Fidel Ventura Geneva/Rome Tunis Eleanor Baha Alan Morrison Copenhagen Brussels Bob Cobley Jan Soeltenfuss/Thomas Reeve East AfricaCaribbean Misbah Mughal Hadford Howell Email:firstname.secondname@fco.gov.uk

  6. Expert Advice • Overseas Market Introduction Service (OMIS) Programme Arranging Service, attendance at bid openings, market research, identification of upcoming projects of interest (subscription-based service) • Workshops/Clinics • Early Project Intelligence • Project Documents What Liaison Officers Offer

  7. AFBS Chargeable Services Menu How our liaison officers around the world can work for you

  8. UKREP OMIS Offers • Information Bulletin: Listing early project information (roughly 6 months prior to publication) for £390 excl. VAT p.a. For 10 editions and 5 free documents (see example following) • Account Management: From £585 excl. VAT on a time sheet basis covering all services/research except for Brussels based networking seminars. • Consultancy Directory: £585 excl. VAT.

  9. UKREP Information Bulletin - extract

  10. UKTI Washington: Aid Funded Business Services Overview • Aid Funded coverage includes the World Bank, Inter- American Development Bank and Millennium Challenge Corporation • Expert knowledge of NGOs and US Government organisations including: Red Cross, Gates Foundation, Africa Harvest, FEMA and Department of Homeland Security • Developed knowledge networks around: Public Private Partnerships (PPP), sustainability initiatives, climate change, think tanks, alternative energy etc.

  11. UKTI Washington: Aid Funded Business Services Overview • Daily Procurement Notices • Customised Research Reports • Weekly and Monthly Newsletters • Soft Representation at the World Bank and IADB • Contract Dispute Support and Resolution • Trade Missions and Seminars • Multiplier Service via Introductions to Bank Officials and Decision Makers • Project Tracking and Document Delivery

  12. UKTI Led Mission to the Washington DC Multilateral Banks HIGHLIGHTS: ● Visits to World Bank, IADB and MCC ● Networking reception ● Presentations by education, TVET and ICT experts ● One-to-one meetings with Bank staff ● Customised research report including procurement opportunities and pipeline projects • Focus: Education, TVET & ICTs • 4th – 8th November 2012 • This mission will focus on Education specifically: • -ICT use in Education • -Secondary Education • -Tertiary Education & TVET • -Science, Technology & Innovation (STI)

  13. Outcomes From Previous Missions • Contract signings • Improved relationships with Bank staff • Build brand and company awareness • New relationships with American Business through networking reception • Increased knowledge of Bank initiatives and pipeline projects resulting in better tender bids • Personal invitations form Banks to companies inviting them back to make further presentations • Best practices sharing with fellow missioners

  14. Alison McKinlay (Scotland) Jennifer Hartley (NE) Philip Kelly (Y&H) Elaine Curran & Linda Forte (NI) Divia Patel-Smith (NW) Tim Jelley (EM) Paul Meikle (WM) Graeme Bilton(EoE) Michael Hnyda (Wales) Semhar Habtezion (Lon) Tbc (SE) Tracey Ruff (SW)

  15. Export Advice: Initial discussions about Aid-Funded Business (including commissioning work with Overseas Embassies/Missions) and advice for general trading overseas • Training/Workshops and Networking Events: Visits by Liaison Officers to your region • Outward Trade Missions to UN Headquarters: are regularly organised by Regional colleagues (e.g. Geneva, Copenhagen, Vienna and New York)

  16. AFBS Events 2012/13 November: • 5-8, World Bank/IADB/MCC Mission (Washington DC) – Education & ICT • 26-30, East Africa Mission, Kenya & Uganda February: • 4-8, Haiti Earthquake Reconstruction & Development Mission via DR March: • 18-22, Asian Development Bank Mission For further details, email: info@afbs.org.ukor Tel:0845 603 0084

  17. Advanced level AFB Courses • AFBS partner British Expertise offer follow-on advanced level training courses on a regular 2 month cycle in: • Log-Frames • Proposal Writing. For further details contact Sue Davie: email sd@britishexpertise.org tel: 020 7824 1920 or visit: www.britishexpertise.org

  18. Contact Details Tel: 0845 603 0084 Fax: 0121 607 0130 Email: info@afbs.org.uk Web: www.ukti.gov.uk • Cheryl Boxall • Project Manager • Aid-Funded Business Service • 75 Harborne Road • Birmingham • B15 3DH :Cheryl Boxall :@aidfunded

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