International Building and Trade (IBT) is a Limited Liability Company with capital of 1,000,000 CFA francs. Since 2002 IBT has been created and managed by an Agricultural Engineer from Rural Engineering, Water & Forests, holder of a DESS in Project Management and Local Development. Its administration is managed by a fairly experienced technical team, dynamic and very knowledgeable in new management and technical development. The creation of IBT is the work of several social facts which inspired its promoter.

Thus, the fight against poverty involves the production of income from jobs, social policies and emergency measures. Job creation is the the only way to combine economic growth and poverty reduction. Indeed, it is possible to make the national wealth created by the work of each person sustainable and for the poor to emerge with dignity from their situation of impoverishment. The massive creation of private companies can therefore allow promoters today not only to become self-employed, but to recruit new employees. According to a study by the Department of Studies and Employment Policies, 45% of job seekers in Benin are in the construction, services and buisiness sectors. The creation of jobs in these area would significantly reduce unemployment. It is also an indicator of niches where student orientation may need to be discouraged or business creation encouraged if the market exists.

The preservation of a healthy environment, especially in urban centers, agriculture and the protection of environmental resources are also niche vectors of development. Strengthening the organizational and management capacities of local development actors is a necessary condition for the take-off of a local economy; since training remains the main condition for development. Benin and the other countries of French-speaking black Africa, south of the Sahara are developing nations, vast construction sites in a global universe where everything remains to be built, where people constantly thrive in poverty. Therefore, we cannot doubt the imperative need to invest in the mentioned sectors. Likewise, given the consequences of recent international financial crises in the economic world, powerful economic operators must be born in developing States in order to generate economic growth and promote the socio-cultural and political influence of Nations. Political decision-makers in the Least Developed Countries will have to work more to make the economic environment more suitable to the emergence of SMEs/SMIs. IBT is therefore created and faces these realities that Benin and other countries are facing today in Africa.