II International Business Seminary

May 30th, 31st and June 1st of 2016 in Goiânia – Goiás.

ACIEG – Commercial and Industrial Association of Goiás - Rua 14, nº50 Setor Oeste – Goiânia – Goiás e na Vila Cultural Cora Coralina - Rua 03 esquina com Av. Tocantins – Centro Goiânia – Goiás.

1 PROPONENT/HOST

Small Afro-Brazilian Entrepreneurs and Afro-Brazilian Entrepreneurs Union of Goiás State – CEABRA – Goiás

1.1  Institution Brief History

The CEABRA, Small Afro-Brazilian Entrepreneurs and Afro-Brazilian Entrepreneurs Union of Goiás State is associated to Brazilian Entrepreneurs Network and has between your specific targets promote business volume, social and economic development of registered individual entrepreneurs and small business, with greater focus on business owned by afro-Brazilians. Our mission is promote development of small entrepreneurs, mainly afro-entrepreneurs via a associative network, that provides national and international increased competition. It´s our vision of future, to be, in medium term, an associated entrepreneurs network, covering whole Goiás State, with representative in different areas and region at Polo Cities. The main target is structure an association to give qualification to their members and automatically provide access to credit line, expanding their participation in a national and international trade, specially Africa and also provide source to expand a quality life for the affiliated member.

There´s a well defined vision to the target in prioritized the individual entrepreneurs and small business giving bigger focus to the blacks, the justifiable reason for that is their increasing growing in the recent past years bringing new jobs and business not only for workforce, attribution historically given, but with bigger commitment and competency up front of small business to internal trade and also be competitive to international trade. Between a number of event performed by Ceabra-Goiás, it´s necessary highlight the I International Business Seminary, happened on December 2^nd of 2015, at Bank Association Head Office – ASBAN, in Goiânia City.

The event represented a landmark, not only for the Seminary itself, but for the results which included a trade mission managed by Ceabra-Goiás to the Bangladesh Embassy in Brasília, Federal Capital, with representatives of industry invited by their excellence the Ambassador. Among the trade partners, we point out the Industry Federation of Goias State – FIEG, the Bank Association – ASBAN, the Garments Syndicate – SINVEST, the CORREIOS and SEBRAE-Goiás. The Ceabra Goiás, since the first moment is enthusiastic and partner of Brazil Afro-Entrepreneurs Project (PBAE) that was held in 11 Brazilian capitals, it begins with a initiative of civil society -  by the Adolpho Bauer Institute intermediate and Afro-Brazilian Entrepreneurs (Ceabra – São Paulo) – in partnership with SEBRAE National. The success of this initiative creates the Brazil Afro-Entrepreneurs Network – REAFRO.

2 – PROJECT: II INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SEMINARY

2.1 Project Methodological Description

2.2 – The proposal of II International Business Seminary “Brazil – ÁFRICA – Bangladesh” will be held with three  necessary distinctive targets.  The First moment creates 03 Region Seminary of Afro-entrepreneurs held at Novo Gama de Goiás City, Catalão e Anápolis, with schedule calendar from april to may of 2016. The objective are creation of Regional of Afro-entrepreneurs and in may 30^th, 31^st and June 1^st the II International Business Seminary that will bring the presentation of economic potentiality of participants countries, promoting business round, via diplomatic missions that’s will bring business men to negotiates with Brazilians business men.   

However, the diplomatic mission will attend two events, one in Anápolis City on may 30^th and another one in Goiânia on may 31^st. The proposal bring, between their main targets, opportunities of expand the import and exporting trade of products and technologies. The embassy’s invited to the event are: South Africa, Angola, Cape Verde,  Republic of Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Bangladesh through their ambassadors in Brazil. This target aim sum commercial efforts as solution to difficulties economics confrontation by the invited nations fostering opportunities of income generation and expansion of job creation. With planned activities, we provide technical guidance about how to produce business plan for the attended entrepreneurs. The adopted methodology will add to individual entrepreneur and small business economic empowerment. That will be presentation program with team of national and international renamed researches. With intent to engage more audience, specially to involve relevant number of students from foreign trade areas, social service, fashion design, aesthetic, tourism, history, sociology, nutrition, management, accounting, marketing and others.           

The presentation of articles, lectures, mini-courses about the academic perspective, corporate and social will be presented in specific workshop. The project is open to participant, researched and students of whole country via send articles or participation presenting their work in the event.

2.3 – Pre-events: will be visits to the embassies and the main sponsors. At the time also will be performed four regional seminaries by the collective of afro-Brazilian entrepreneurs of Goiás, in Novo Gama City, Catalão, Anápolis and Caldas Novas. The pre-events will happen from january to may of 2016.        

3 – I Internacional World Business Fair

3.1 – The International World Business Fair has between their main targets be a tool in promoting a changing of cultural knowledge and there’s possibility to contribute to create a new group to open trade discussion. Introduce to the traditional Brazilian communities: Quilombola, Gypsys, Indigenous and People from Traditional African Grid and African Countries Events and also Bangladesh, present new business opportunities to those people in our country. Contribute to create new tools to a social inclusion, job growth and create income to the local communities. Formalize new developments, which will collaborate to the government with tax collection in order to strengthen the economic and society. This propose will bring a new layout to the business fairs and prize the new and small business entrepreneurs to focus in Africa countries cultures, Bangladesh and Brazilian traditional communities and also another residents ethnic groups. The event will have a important role in strengthening exhibitors trademark, producers and service providers which show successful cases of micro and small entrepreneurs. The fair will open a opportunity, will bring to the table various product and services and also bring different cultures to one unique place, encouraging costumers to make business and entertain themselves with different cultural activities, like concerts, knowledge round and workshops that will be done. That will be the opportunities to the business present their new products and services to the public, translating in good results in a necessary moment of increase their sales opportunity. The space can hold about 250 stands to exhibition of products like, for example, handcrafts from participants countries and from the traditional Brazilian communities like Quilombola, Gypsys, Indigenous and People from Traditional African Grid, Brazilians, in addition to traditional garments from Africa and Bangladesh and another ethnic groups residents in Brazil. The food court with their typical food stands. Another area designed to the cosmetics, beauty salon, shoes, handbags, handcrafts and technologies. Will also have workshops in a ambient to people interested to the same theme. The workshops will have important participants invited. Renamed specialists will be discussing and presenting challenge for the cultural and commercial inclusion to participants. There will have also exhibition and display of selected work throughout discussions and table debate. Concerts and live music with national and local artist with free entrance. The cultural activities will be the highlight of the cultural, entertainment and leisure event, include knowledge and interaction rounds. The I International Business Fair will also held beauty contest: BRAZIL – AFRICA – BANGLADESH, with three categories: a) Teenage Category: participants between 14 to 17 years old; b) Female Adult Category: participants between 18 to 30 years old; c) Male Adult Category: participants between 18 to 30 years old. The participants criteria will be announced later by the Organizing Committee to be created. The International Fair will be a big event and fantastic opportunity to discover the latest news of handcrafts and a number of cultural articles present.

The Fair will be held at public place with easy access, it will facilitate the exhibition and sales of products. Another important space will be designed to the nations ethnic groups residents in Brazil, to expose their cuisine, garments, handcrafts and culture. It´s also a method concept taken that´s beyond the exhibition, provided in add to culture, leisure, entertainment and recreation to the participant public. This purpose show excellent opportunity to expose the names and products of participants sponsors, in atmosphere made to provide, beyond everything already showed, gain in good business.

4 – Specific Targets

4.1 Present to the entrepreneurs and Brazilian businessmen, opportunity of business to South Africa, Angola, Cape Verde, Republic of Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique in the African Continent and Bangladesh in the Asian Continent via their diplomatic missions in Brazil.

4.2 Expose negotiation practices (business round) and orientation in order to make the access to international trade.

4.3 Promote subsidy of financial education to the public present. Increase the possibilities of business success and financial balance.

4.4 Present tools for importation and exportation – Financial investments and approach of new international business.

4.5 Present to the traditional communities of Brazil: (Quilombolas, Gypsy, Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian traditional communities and African and Bangladesh culture) new business opportunities for this population which lives in Brazil; contribute to create new tools for social inclusion in order to creation of jobs and income to this communities; formalize ne developments; be a tool for exchange of experiences and cultural knolowdge.

4.6  Perform  the I International Business Fair   

      

5 – Justification

5.1 – The Afro-Brazilian Entrepreneurs of Goiás State mission, is liked to open possibilities to stablish, create and strengthening of individuals entrepreneurs, micro and small business and encourage them to be part of internal trade and also the competitive international trade. The accomplishment of II International Seminary: “Brazil – AFRICA – Bangladesh”, with participation of South Africa, Angola, Cape Verde, Republic of Guine-Bissau, Mozambique e Bangladesh embassies in Brazil, strengthen that mission. Another important factor according to SEBRAE´s research issued in September/2013, point out race/skin color, the afro-entrepreneurs activities sectors, go throughout fashion market, beauty, culture, cuisine, technology and communication sectors. “In ten years, the production value output by small business increase from R$ 144 bi to R$ 599 bi. Like this, the small business respond for more than ¼ of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Together, the micro and small Brazilian business represents about 9 millions formal entrepreneurs, in the other words, 27% of our GDP.

Those data show up the success: 27% of GDP, 52% of our employee have a formal contract, 40% of paid salaries, 8,9 million of micro and small business, based in recent data issued by SEBRAE. In Brazil, therefore, black people represents the majority in the entrepreneurs sector. Between 2002 and 2012, 50% of micro and small business stated themselves black or brown, 49% stated themselves as white. Acting in lower gross profits, as agriculture, informal sellers and hairstylist, the blacks accumulate lower income then the whites in the same sector. The income held by the white businessman, which dominates the machine and health services, is 112% bigger then the blacks in the same sector. According to data, 41% of blacks and brown working with entrepreneurs activities are at northeast, region which afro-entrepreneurs dominate. According to SEBRAE, the progress of black people as businessman or businesswoman show that social politics conducted in those groups has been more effective and point out also the creation of a juridical figure of individual entrepreneurs (MEI) as a important factor to actual black entrepreneurs reality. A research made by SEBRAE shows that the afro-entrepreneurs increased their monthly income and the level of education. Between 2002 and 2012, there was a expansion of study time and table for the black people, from 4,7 to 6,5 years. The black entrepreneurs income increased from R$ 786 to R$ 1.138. Luiz Barreto believes that the time of study is a important factor to the life improvement of afrodescendant entrepreneurs. Contributes to the expansion of business participation of micro and small business, presenting them in a strategic trade routes from those nations. The event will allow identify and strengthen new opportunities which induce individual entrepreneurs, the micro and small business to a dynamic of bigger prosperity. There´s no doubt about the importance of inclusion a economic role being the away to reduce of social inequality in Brazil.