On the 15th of August, 2017, IBDL took the honor of organizing a business lunch with the Guinean Foreign Minister, discussing its initiative for youth in Guinea. The lunch was attended by Dr. Hazem Fahmy, the Secretary General of the Egyptian Agency, Ambassador Mona Omar, formerly assistant to the foreign minister on African affairs, along with H.E ambassador of Guinea in Egypt and the accompanying delegation of the Minister.   In the presence of Dr. Adel Sadek (IBDL Chief Business Officer) and Dr. Khaled Khallaf, (CEO of IBDL), Dr. Mohamed Galal (IBDL CDO - Africa) discussed IBDL goal of changing Guinea’s diplomacy to focus more on its economy. Moreover, they reviewed with her Excellency the 100 scholarships to Guinea Initiative, training the Guinean diplomats and its partnership with Al Nasser University. In the light of this event, IBDL would like to thank her Excellency for trusting IBDL Foundation’s capabilities to support Guinea through its partnership with the EAPD in the Egyptian Foreign Affairs.   

On August the 8th, IBDL held the closing ceremony of the five-session international conference titled "Regards croisés des femmes francophones Nord-Sud". The conference covered a variety of topics about Francophonie women, politics, economics, the media, education, health, and medicine. Gathering-up elite Egyptian, Arab, African, European and Francophonie figures, the conference shed light on the most successful achievements of women today, who participate eagerly in all areas of human activity.   Francophonie women particularly play a crucial role in the French-speaking communities and countries across five continents, where they struggle continuously in a world ruled by a web of infinite personal interests and conflicts. Held in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt, the conference featured a speech by Dr. Mohamed Galal - Head of French Department in IBDL. On his part, Dr. Galal weighed on in the vital role of the IBDL certificates in the economic empowerment of women in Africa. Dr. Galal highlighted how over the years, IBDL has shown a great interest in developing women’s economic empowerment and capacity-building in the field of business and will gladly continue to do so.  

  Through the EAPD/IBDL strategic partnership, Djibouti has accepted 50 scholarships from IBDL and they are expected to be executed at the INAP at Djibouti by October this year. Those scholarships will mark the start of a partnership between IBDL Foundation, EAPD and INAP in Djibouti for knowledge transfer and capacity building of the governmental next generation of professionals at Djibouti.     After a successful trip to Djibouti, Dr. Khaled Khallaf (IBDL CEO) and Dr. Mohamed Galal (IBDL CDO - Africa) have announced that negotiations are engaged between IBDL Foundation and the INAP Djibouti National Training Institute to deliver IBDL courses for the governmental employees  as its mission is to develop their managerial capacity. Among IBDL expansion plans in Africa, serious negotiations have been engaged between IBDL Foundation and the Djiboutian Chamber of Commerce. Those negotiations aim to expand IBDL training and certification to include the Djiboutian private sector through the Chamber’s expected accreditation as a service provider and an accredited examination center. This possible accreditation will enable the Chamber to provide the private sector with all IBDL trainings and certifications.

  IBDL Foundation, EAPD and the African Union are currently negotiating an MOU for strategic cooperation in order to support the African Union with building its leadership and managerial capacities. After a fruitful meeting at the African Union headquarters at Addis Ababa between IBDL Foundation and the African Union HR & Admin Director, the negotiations will aim to develop curriculums suitable for the mission, culture and goals of that reputable organization. As a result, several successful contacts were signed between EAPD and the African Union within EAPD mission to support the African Union capabilities.  

  IBDL Foundation has attended the international conference "Youth Connect" that was hosted by Rwanda under the sponsorship of his Excellency the Minister of Youth and ICT in Rwanda. During IBDL intervention in that conference, Dr. Mohamed Galal (IBDL CDO - Africa) has announced the initiative of IBDL and EAPD to present 1100 scholarships to 21 African countries. That initiative was widely welcomed by the officials and the attendees as those scholarships come within EAPD mission to support African Youth and within IBDL mission to build the next generation of African professionals.

  Within the context of IBDL's special interest in Africa, a number of agreements and cooperative protocols has been made in several African countries including Guinea, South Africa and Rwanda. These protocols was part of IBDL’s Plan to expand in the African continent to grantee the content’s development.

  On July the 12th, EAPD in association with IBDL celebrated the inauguration of the project of “The African Next-Generation Professionals 1000 Scholarships Project”. These scholarships target the CEOs and executives from 21 African countries to provide professional leadership training. This project is a live example of Egypt’s commitment towards the sustainable development in Mother Africa.                                 The initiative of the “The African Next-Generation Professionals Project”  aims at contributing to developing modern management systems and entrepreneurship in African countries; in order to achieve sustainable development goals.        His Excellency Ambassador Hazem Fahmy, the Secretary General of EAPD, has declared that different 21 African countries are benefiting from these scholarships in the first phase of the project, which includes the certificate of “IBDL Essential”. Moreover, he confirmed that the certifications of IBDL are conducted according to international criteria and up-to-date executive educational curriculum.     Dr. Khaled Khallaf, CEO of IBDL, said that these certifications professionally promote and enable their holders of mastering business administration skills. Nonetheless, IBDL seeks to support the international and local society to acquire more knowledge of business, in order to achieve the maximum profit from the skills of the country’s executives. Dr. Khallaf also declared that this initiative aims at effectively contributing to the growth of economy and production of the countries in general. 

  Within the framework of cooperation between IBDL Foundation and National Management Institute (NMI), Mr. Ehab Seif, First Undersecretary at The Egyptian Ministry of Civil Aviation, has inaugurated the first training wave of the capacity-building program. This training program is dedicated to the preparation of the second cadres staff of the Ministry of Civil Aviation. Additionally, this training program aims at building and developing young leaders and executives skills within the Ministry and its affiliates.

  Within the frame of the special interest that IBDL is giving to Africa, Dr. Khaled Khallaf (CEO of IBDL) has been honored to meet his Excellency the President of Guinea Conakry. Mr. ALPHA Conde. During that meeting, Mister the President has decided to give away for wider cooperation with IBDL, within his vision for a modernized Guinea with a developed and well-trained human capital, that can drive a sustainable development in Guinea.     Within that same context, Dr. Moahmed Galal, the chief development officer for Africa, has met his Excellency the Guinean Ambassador in Cairo: Mr. Soriba Camara. That meeting was to prepare the coming visit of IBDL delegation to Guinea, within a mission of cooperation organized and sponsored by the EAPD (the Egyptian Agency of Partnership for Development) a division of the Egyptian Foreign Affairs Ministry

  The Egyptian Foreign Ministry headquarters witnessed, on Monday, the graduation ceremony of the first batch of "Developing Egyptian Diplomats' Skills." The program aimed at attracting foreign investments, expanding exports, and promoting Egypt image abroad. Dr. Hazem Fahmy, General Secretary of EAPD, has declared that; the agency has been working for months with IBDL on developing an integrated skills boosting the program, for Egyptian diplomats in the fields of investment and international trade. The program includes; modern international economic concepts, business and marketing fundamentals, and developing communication skills with businessmen.  African Development Bank financed the program. Dr. Khaled Khallaf, CEO of IBDL, confirmed that; this program is the first of its kind in the Middle East, and that it was designed especially for the Egyptian Foreign Ministry.