The Chief Executive of the Labour Fund Tamkeen, Dr. Ebrahim Mohammed Janahi has recently announced that the Kingdom of Bahrain is gearing up towards hosting the 11th Global Entrepreneurship Congress in April 2019. “Bahrain has been named host country for the Congress at a special event at United Nations HQ in New York,” he noted.

Last year’s Global Entrepreneurship Congress in Istanbul. 

The Bahrain chapter of Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) has recently been set up as the Kingdom prepares to host the 11^th GEC in 2019. Dr. Janahi said that GEN Bahrain aims to engage entrepreneurs and ecosystem stakeholders to strengthen the country’s entrepreneurship community, in line with Tamkeen’s objectives of nurturing and supporting an innovative entrepreneurship ecosystem.

Esam Hammad, Acting Executive Director of Customer Engagement at Tamkeen, is supporting the development of GEN Bahrain in the capacity of acting Managing Director. He stressed the role of GEN Bahrain in providing an active platform for local and international connections within the global entrepreneurship ecosystem.

GEN Bahrain aims to strengthen its ecosystem by:

1. Coordinating and promoting local initiatives aimed at strengthening Bahrain’s entrepreneurship ecosystem
2. Partnering with local stakeholders to implement high-impact GEN programs
3. Engaging ecosystem stakeholders to identify gaps, facilitate dialogue and strengthen a sustainable development cycle for entrepreneurs, and
4. Raising awareness of entrepreneurship, innovation, and self-employment as a means to create value and make the Bahraini private sector an engine of growth.

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