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Illustrating the Outcomes of Middle East Entrepreneur Training (MEET)
Since 2003, the Beyster Institute has managed an entrepreneurship development program for promising entrepreneurs and businesspeople from the Middle East and North Africa region. The Middle East Entrepreneur Training (MEET) program, conducted on behalf of the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) at the U.S. Department of State, aims to develop a cadre of promising young entrepreneurs to help accelerate economic growth in the MENA region. The Institute recruited participants from 16 countries and territories in the MENA region and has developed and managed a variety of entrepreneurship training programs, internships and networking events focusing on different business sectors.
These U.S. programs were supplemented by conferences in the MENA region to reinforce the lessons learned in the training programs and to foster communications between emerging entrepreneurs throughout the region.
The Institute subsequently won an additional contract to continue the MEET program with MEPI and has already begun implementing additional training programs for entrepreneurs and leaders of civil society organizations in the MENA region.
To help summarize the MEET program's accomplishments to date, the Institute called on the services of the geospatial solutions division of Macfadden and Associates, Inc., a 100 percent employee-owned company that specializes in providing users with the ability to overlay multiple layers of information to accurately convey a common operating picture to decision makers. We provided Macfadden with the raw data of our accomplishments and they produced the aboe Geopgraphic Information Systems (GIS) map.
Additional information about the MEET program is available here: Current Programs: Middle East and North Africa
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