Kafalat
Kafalat is a Lebanese financial company with a public concern that helps small and medium sized ventures (SMEs) to access commercial bank funding. Kafalat helps SMEs by providing loan guarantees based on business plans / feasibility studies that show the viability of the proposed business activity. It processes guarantee applications for loans that are to be given by Lebanese banks to SMEs operating throughout Lebanon.
Kafalat targets SMEs that belong to one of the following economic sectors:

• Industry
• Agriculture
• Tourism
• Traditional Crafts
• High Technology

Kafalat guaranteed loans benefit from interest rate subsidies. These subsidies have been set up to alleviate the crowding out effect of the high interest rates in Lebanon which are generated by public sector borrowing. The interest rate subsidies are financed by the Lebanese treasury and administered by the Central Bank of Lebanon.

Tel:01-346255www.kafalat.com.lb

IDAL
IDAL’s mission is to promote Lebanon as a viable investment destination, and foster, facilitate and retain investments in the country. Its scope of work entails the following functions:

• Identifying and promoting investment opportunities in Lebanon
• Disseminating market intelligence about Lebanon, the business, legal and investment frameworks as well as other relevant information
• Facilitating the registration and issuance of permits and licenses required for any investment project
• Providing ongoing support for investment projects once established
• Identifying potential joint venture partners and strategic allies for Lebanese businesses
• Advising the Lebanese government on investment policy issues

Tel:01-983306/7/8 www.idal.com.lb

ELCIM2
ELCIM is a program initiated by the European Commission in Lebanon for the support of small and medium sized industrial enterprises and hotels in order to develop their performances and promote their products to achieve international standards. Their services involve Technical Assistance and Financial Assistance. The Technical Assistance begins with a free diagnosis and could go as far as the action plan and the implementation phase. As for the Financial Assistance, ELCIM provides advice on long-term financing and capital investment and facilitates the process through its prominent contacts with the relevant bodies. A financial expert/advisor visits CCIAT one day a week to meet with the companies and to coordinate with the banks.

Tel:05-464867www.elcim-lb.org

Lebanon Business Network
Lebanon Business Network (LBN) is a non-profit, business development vehicle. Featuring an online marketplace and a business matching database, it identifies opportunities and creates links between Lebanese entrepreneurs, expatriates, and international businesses. LBN seeks to introduce Lebanese businesses and individuals to international business opportunities, which can include strategic alliances, joint ventures, related partnerships and trading.

www.lbn.com.lb

Association of Lebanese Industrialists
Founded in 1943, the Association of Lebanese Industrialists (ALI) is a Lebanese economic organization grouping industrialists from all over Lebanon. ALI advocates a policy of balanced industrial development for all the Lebanese regions.
The Association seeks to create and maintain an environment which is favorable to industrial investment, growth and development. Considering that industry in Lebanon, except for cigarette manufacturing, is purely private, the Association’s role becomes even more significant.

Tel:01-350280/1/2www.ali.org.lb

American Lebanese Chamber of Commerce
The objectives of the Chamber is to further the development of economic, commercial, industrial, financial, agricultural and tourism relations between the United States of America and Lebanon. It also encourages mutual investments in the private sectors, both in Lebanon and the United States, and promotes commercial and industrial exchange between the two countries.

Tel:01-985330www.amcham.org.lb

Chambre of Commerce & Industry Beirut & Mount Lebanon
The vision of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture of Beirut and Mount Lebanon is to provide a plan to stimulate economic growth and provide the right conditions to ensure better cooperation between the public and private sectors.
Its mission is to create the right conditions needed for sustained growth in all economic sectors and in all parts of the country.

Tel:01-341434www.ccib.org.lb

Industrial Research Institute
The Industrial Research Institute is a Lebanese institution for studies, industrial research and scientific testing and analysis. Its activities and services are organized to realize aims relating to studies, information dissemination, testing and analysis, and cooperation with partner institutions in matters relating to the industrial development of the country. In carrying out its functions, the Institute adheres to ethical and professional standards whereby it safeguards the clients’ best interests. It also regards any information, processes, patents or techniques developed during work for a client as the client’s property and hence safeguards such matters in complete secrecy.

Tel:05-467831www.iri.org.lb

USJ
http://www.usj.edu.lb/

AUB
http://www.aub.edu.lb/

LU
http://www.ul.edu.lb/