Projects

Poor Communities and Trade Programme (PCTP), at the International Trade Centre (ITC), aims to reduce global poverty by strengthening the capacities of developing country micro-entrepreneurs, social enterprises and emerging designers for export trade, in order to connect them with international...

Trade and exports are an important pathway for women to improve firm performance. E-commerce has opened up a new, more efficient way to connect producers and merchants to customers around the country and world, and has shown promise in helping small businesses who are challenged with reaching...

The Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) is a regional free trade agreement, currently comprising Republic of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Moldova, Montenegro, Republic of North Macedonia, and Republic of Serbia. Over the last years, CEFTA has been able to remove most...

Clothing is one of the largest industries in the world economy employing 60 to 75 million people worldwide. The negative social and environmental impacts of the fashion industry have been well documented, demonstrating that these impacts mostly occur within the upstream portion of the value chain....

The project aims at creating jobs and generating stable income in the craft sector for women and youth artisans, thus contributing to social stabilization and economic development of the region. A market driven approach will be used in order to enable Lebanese craft products gain a better share of...

The Main Implementing Entity of the TIER 2 EIF project is the Uganda Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities (MTWA) with ITC serving as the implementing partner for selected activities foreseen in the project. The Uganda Export Promotion Board and Uganda Tourism Board will be further partners...

The Gazan population continues to suffer from longstanding Israeli occupation and poor socio-economic conditions. In the past decade, the Gaza strip experienced three wars; this has left a significant number of the population internally displaced. About 40% of the population lives in poverty, 1.1...

Building "Export Bahrain" Project is aiming at the operationalisation of the Bahraini Export Development Centre to become a respected and visible institution that delivers high quality, relevant and impactful services to Bahraini exporters and supports aspiring exporters to...

Following the recent political changes in The Gambia with the transition to the new democratic coalition government, which coincided with significant levels of returning migrants, it is crucial for stability and peace of the country to have appropriate measures to positively and sustainably...

The action, funded by the EU, aims at providing support to the target countries in ASEAN (Lao PDR and Vietnam), in the area of plant health, and pesticides use and control of the F&V as well as on other plant products supply chains.The overall objective is to improve food safety through better...

The objective of the SheTrades Zambia project is to increase the participation of Zambian women-owned businesses in trade, by increasing their competitiveness and enabling their inclusion in the agricultural and textiles and garments value chains. SheTrades Zambia will advocate for a conducive...

ITC jointly with 16 UN agencies within the framework of the Kigoma Joint Programme, will contribute to development of Kigoma Region in Tanzania.There are six converging and cross-sectoral outcomes of sustainable energy and environment, youth and women’s economic empowerment, violence against...

The aim of the programme is to increase the participation of women-owned businesses in trade in order to increase economic growth and job creation in Commonwealth countries. With interventions at the beneficiary-, firm-, institutional-, national- and inter-national level, it will:  Address...

The ITC project will contribute to the impact aimed by the larger programme, which is to strengthen the economic and social resilience of Syrians under Temporary Protection (SuTP) in Turkey.The main outcome of the ITC project will be strengthened business and trade competitiveness of MSMEs. Thus...

The project titled “Enabling Market Access for Tajik Agricultural Products through Improved Food Safety System” with the support of The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Tajikistan and the Ministry of Agriculture, aims to improve food safety and export competitiveness of...

The project aims to help small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) from Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries integrate into global value chains and access new markets with a focus on the European Union (EU). The intervention will assist SMEs in producing value-added goods in accordance with...

Lebanon - Export Sector Competitiveness Project aims to contribute to increase diversification of Lebanon’s economy reducing its vulnerability to commodity market shocks, by benefiting from trading opportunities and improved competitiveness in priority sectors. It will reach this objective...

The objective of the project is to address the constraints at farmer, enterprise and institutional levels, to ensure that the dates sector in Medina can meet increasing internal and external demand.The expected overall impact of the project is to contribute to sustainable economic diversification...

The initiative supports laying the foundation for strengthening the country’s trade capacities and building a business-friendly environment, with a long-term goal of Afghanistan becoming a vibrant regional economic hub.The intervention is a recognition of ongoing efforts by the Afghan...