BIEEL, a joint initiative launched by Fair Trade Lebanon & the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI), aims at empowering SMEs & cooperatives to compete on an international scale.

BIEEL organized the “SME Financing in Lebanon Today” Conference which took place on Wednesday, March 2nd at ESA Business School.

Lebanese SMIs and SMEs looking to grow and expand were invited to join the conference and meet the top four financial programs that were presented by IM Fndng, CrowdFarming Lebanon, Cedar Oxygen and Alfanar (LIFT Ventures).

Corine Kiame, Chief Investment Officer at IM Fndng, joined the conference as a panelist and presented in detail the Scale Manufacture & Export Fund (SMEF), targeting manufacturing SMEs.

This event was organized by FAIR TRADE LEBANON-COMMERCE EQUITABLE LIBAN under the BIEEL project, in collaboration with ESA Business School, Association of Lebanese Industrialists - ALI, Meref - CCI France Liban with the support of The U.S.-Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI).