About us

CINECenter for Investment Networking in Ethiopia

Reliable Investment Bridge

CINE was established by the Former President of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, His Excellency Dr Mulatu Teshome, to continue serving his country with the rich experience he has developed over the years. Dr Mulatu has devoted his entire professional life to serve his country by playing his role in the national endeavor of uplifting the living standard of the people of Ethiopia, and achieving the goal of building a stable, democratic, peaceful and prosperous proud nation.

CINE Core Investment

Services & Activities

Investment Promotion

CINE targets both domestic and foreign companies as potential investors, and seeks to bring investment opportunities to Ethiopia by.

Facilitating Opportunities

Promoting investment opportunities in Ethiopia by facilitating higher level business negotiations between Ethiopia and foreign business entities.

Investment Promotion

Identifying Investors

Identifying and engaging anchor local and overseas investors and investment firms.

Establishing business opportunity

Establishing business opportunity groups and business councils between Ethiopia and would be counterparts to ensure robust investment cooperation.

Inform Facts

Consolidating and communicating facts on the ground in order to inform and accelerate investment decisions.

Joint Venture

CINE helps ensure business partnering between local investors and foreign potential investors based on global best practices by.

Joint Venture

Facilities

Facilitating long-term business negotiations between investors.

Investment Joint Ventures

Facilitating investment joint ventures.

Match Making

Facilitating investment match-making opportunities.

Due diligence

CINE enhances process efficiency by providing needed timely information and wise counsel to investors so that they may make informed investment decisions by.

Assisting investors

Assisting investors with acquisition of license and other administrative procedures.

Due diligence

Feasibility studies

Conducting investment feasibility studies.

Profile Building

Conducting appraisal of investor’s profile.

Advise to Investors

Serving as an adviser to new investors prior to and during investment cycle.

Investment Think Tank

CINE will serve as independent professional platform that would inform and engage key investment stakeholders by.

Investment studies

Conducting investment studies, compiling investment best practices, and producing timely investment publications.

Principled policy

Facilitating principled policy dialogue with government towards creating a more conducive investment environment.

Investment Think Tank

New Investment

Assessing and adapting global investment best practices to Ethiopia.

No hidden surprises

Assessing strength and limitation of Ethiopian investment development practices, thus ensure continuous improvement.

No hidden surprises

Organizing national, regional and global investment consultations on strategic matters in consultation and coordination with Ethiopian Investment Commission.

Investment Guide

CINE works toward strengthening and sustaining existing investments toward industrialization by.

Economic Growth

Encouraging sustainable economic growth through win-win solutions of increased FDI and growing return on investment for both national and TNCs .

Assistance

Providing real-time assistance to investors on critical investment challenges.

Consultancy services

Providing developmental post-establishment consultancy services to investors.

Follow up

Retaining and scaling up existing investments by encouraging continual follow up and timely actions on investment developments.

Investment Guide

Identifying challenges

Identifying domestic investment challenges and co-devising solutions.

Orienting new investment

Orienting existing investors on new investment trends, opportunities, laws and provisions.

Coaching expat

Providing tailored training and ongoing coaching to expat investment managers in order to enhance cross-cultural communication and managerial efficacy.

Training for workers

Providing tailored training to domestic workers that would boost performance work culture and improve work relationships.

Resolve investment dispute

Helping investors resolve investment disputes.

Incubating Investments

CINE pledges to assist the creation of new and innovative businesses and investment ventures by:

Increasing entrepreneurship

Fueling entrepreneurship by facilitating experience sharing, coaching, and the sharing best practices and success stories.

Feasibility studies

Helping startup investment ventures with feasibility studies and the development of comprehensive business plan.

No hidden surprises

Providing tailored and inspirational business management training.

Management training

Providing tailored and inspirational business management training.

Incubating Investments

Link with neighbors

Promoting investment linkages between Ethiopia and its neighbors.

International cooperation

Cooperating with national and international investment promotion agencies such as AfriPAnet, WAIPA, and the like, thus bring global and local talent together to incubate novel and viable investment ideas.

Capacity building

Strengthening technical and institutional capacity of local innovative small-scale businesses.

Advising Investors

CINE serves as source of information, wisdom and guidance for potential investors by

Advisory services

Providing context-based technical and managerial advisory services to investors on prevalent or emergent investment matters.

Provide consultancy

Prototype searching, providing globally relevant and locally-tailored consultancy and relevant services to investors.

Facilitating for investors

Developing needed legal and administrative documents in local and foreign languages, which include by-laws, financial policy, human resource policy and material management policy, and contractual agreements as per the country law .

Advising Investors

Legal Advice

Help investors with recruitment, induction, and development of domestic workers.

Recruitment

Help investors with recruitment, induction, and development of domestic workers.

Advisory services

Providing advisory services to investors on specific legal matters.

Structural design

Helping investors with structural design of investment programs in Ethiopia.

Structural design

Responding to incoming foreign investors and facilitating the investment process.

Advising Gov.

Based on the expertise we acquired from practice and research through our panel of experts from business and academia, CINE is able to offer unique country insight as well as peer-to-peer practical support to policy makers by.

Policy maker

Engaging policy makers in strategic thinking process to improve policies that would retain existing investors, attract new investors, and scale up investment in Ethiopia.

Provide consultancy

Prototype searching, providing globally relevant and locally-tailored consultancy and relevant services to investors.

Professional advisory

Providing professional advisory services to the government of Ethiopia on strategic investment issues.

Advising Government

Legal Advice

Providing tailored capacity building services to the Ethiopian Federal and Regional Investment Office workers to ensure the provision of ethical, efficient and excellent services.