AACCSA

The Training Center of Addis Ababa Chamber of Commerce and Sectoral Associations

The Training Center, as one of AACCSA’s service departments, offers various business trainings to the local business communities to maximize their capacity. Most of the trainings which are delivered at our center focus on the fields of management, leadership, finance, accounting, taxation and international trade. These trainings are offered by professional trainers with rich industrial experience and educational qualification with a minimum of second degree. Our service is becoming more popular in Addis Ababa as the number of participants and trainings are increasing every year. For the last five years and in response to the ever changing business environment, we have been making our service flexible to optimize a win-win strategy for the business community and the Chamber in terms of cost and value. Currently, we are offering trainings to our clients in the following ways:

1. Regular Trainings: These trainings are offered at our training Center where members of the business community from different companies participates by receiving invitation letters from the Chamber by fax or email. We have planned 48 training programs of this type for Ethiopian fiscal year 2003. Each training under this program is provided for half days of a week.

2. Regular Trainings at customers’ Premises: These types of trainings are offered to our customers at their premises from the annual training program.

3. Customized trainings either at the Chamber or at the customers’ premises: These types of trainings are organized by customizing trainings to the particular operational needs of businesses. The venue of the trainings can be either at the Chamber's Training Center or at the customers’ premises and the duration of the trainings depends on the course requirements and clients’ needs.

Our Clients

Some of our clients From public enterprises are:

National Bank of Ethiopia
Commercial Bank of Ethiopia
Ethiopian Insurance Company
Ethiopian Telecommunication Corporation
Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation
Ethiopian Airlines
Ethiopian Shipping Lines S.C.
Ethiopian Tourist Trading Enterprise
Construction and Business Bank
Others

Some of our clients From Private Companies are:

Oil Libya Ethiopia Limited
National Motors Corporation
MOENCO
Dashen Bank S.C
Awash International Bank S.C
DHL World Express Ethiopia PLC
United Bank S.C
MIDROC Ethiopia PLC
Bank of Abyssinia
DH GEDA Trade & Industry PLC
Nyala Insurance S.C
The United Insurance Co. S.C
Waryt Mulutila International PLC
International Cargo and Aviation Services
NIB International Bank S.C
Nib Insurance Company S.C
Selam Bus Line S.C.
Others

From the total customers we served in 2002 Ethiopian fiscal year, 70% and 30% of them were from private and public businesses respectively. In addition to this, we serve more than one thousand employees of local and international businesses each year.

Registration:

If you are interested to participate in any one of our training programs, you have to register at the Training Center, settle payment at the Finance Department and attend the training based on the schedule.

There are three staff in the Training Center. They are:

Abdulkader Hussen: Manager, Training Center
Helina Tilahun: Training Coordinator
Haymanot Baynesagn : Assistant Training Coordinator

Our Motto is: “Enhancing Capacity by Imparting Knowledge.”