Our Services

WHAT WE DO FOR OUR ASSOCIATES

• Because of our relationships with international financial institutions we are able to assess the constraints that hinder access to available funding from multilateral institutions (European Investment Bank, World Bank and African Development Bank).  ELO can help to overcome obstacles caused by lack of adequate information and bureaucratic bottlenecks and propose solutions to unlock these funds, for instance by channelling them into sectors and activities that benefit our members;
• We seek innovative solutions for financing trade, through guarantees or other risk sharing mechanisms,  for projects in emerging markets that are of interest to our members;
• We organize seminars and hold meetings for members to share experiences and debate their opinions about trade and investment issues in general and about relations between Portugal and other CPLP member countries in particular;
• We monitor and assess the performance of national development agencies;
• Similarly, we monitor and assess the performance of bilateral and multilateral international development agencies;
• We hold workshops and organize meetings by invitation with guests from Portugal and overseas;
• We promote lunch meetings for our members with guest speakers who are key figures in ELO’s areas of activity;
• We provide information about project finance mechanisms in developing countries, particularly Portuguese speaking ones.