The AMDEC (African and Middle East Development Council's) purpose is to co-ordinate the activities of its members to reach JCI purposes and to promote the specific interests of the area for the benefit of its members.

The members of AMDEC-North are: Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, UAE, Morocco and Tunisia.

AMDEC objectives are to coordinate the activities of these countries to achieve specific targets (growth and development) while exchanging information, skills and experience between them.

AMDEC holds a yearly Meeting for the AMDEC NORTH national JCI organizations in one of the member countries. The AMDEC Meeting spans 3 days whereby JCI professional trainings are offered and workshops are conducted to tackle the challenges facing the region.

AMDEC-North Meeting 2009 will take place in Aleppo-Syria on March 5-8 2009

Who Will Be There?

The expected number of participants in this event is more than 150 members coming from: Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Tunisia, Morocco, UAE, Cyprus, Turkey, Germany, Russia, and JCI Worldwide. Participants are young entrepreneurs and business owners or senior executives between the ages of 18 and 40. The trainers are renowned consultants in the fields of training and coaching.