Sustainability & Inclusivity

SheTrades.com is a powerful free tool where you can join a global community of women entrepreneurs, business support organizations (BSOs), partners, and companies that are united in the goal of supporting women and communities along supply chains and promoting a fairer trade system for all. 

Members can access an array of user-friendly functionalities to grow their businesses. These include automated investor matchmaking that allows registered users to match with potential investors. With SheTrades.com, you can market, buy, and sell your products with 40,000 other members at the online SheTrades marketplace. Members will also have access to over 200 e-learning materials such as webinars, online courses and certificate programmes developed by industry experts at the virtual learning space. 

SheTrades.com offers access to quality gender-disaggregated policy data that enables informed business decisions through sophisticated features such as SheTrades Outlook. All of these features and more are available at www.shetrades.com, as well as through our free mobile app on the Apple App Store or Google Play Store.

Powered by the International Trade Centre (ITC), ‪Ye! Community is a global platform supporting young entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs to build impactful businesses and enhance economic development.

La Communauté Ye! appuie les jeunes entrepreneurs pour les aider à réussir dans un monde en mutation permanente.

Through the Ye! Community online platform, entrepreneurs up to 35 years of age can connect online and in-person with a network of peers as well as resources, tools, mentors, and opportunities. ‪Ye! has more than 30,000 members, including business support organizations, ecosystem enablers and financiers.

Ye! Community also has a network of communities called Ye! Chapters. These are local networks that provide peer support, access to capacity building, skills development, experts and opportunities for business partnership and expansion.‪

Ye! Community is open to all young entrepreneurs, and stakeholders, experts and organizations that support them. As a member, you can also access country guides and e-learning courses to help you build a sustainable business venture and scale internationally.

Building transparency for a sustainable future

ITC’s Sustainability Map was designed to decentralize data and build more bridges between entities committed to sustainability. 

Our Sustainability Map empowers micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) committed to sustainable production and processing to increase their business potential by:

• Gaining visibility towards potential buyers looking for sustainable products 
• Creating an online profile and QR code to market their business globally 
• Easily verifying the validity of their certifications 

Our Sustainability Map also supports international brands in sustainable sourcing and verifying the validity of their partners’ certification claims by:

• Accessing trustworthy data and verifying suppliers’ sustainability claims 
• Mapping and giving transparency to their supply chains 
• Telling their sustainability story and strengthening their brand image to consumers

Our Sustainability Map decentralizes data and builds bridges between entities committed to sustainability by:

• Displaying certification and helping create a global public network of sustainable companies across sustainable initiatives
• Leveraging our unique identifier to take part in blockchain projects focusing on transparency and traceability
• Letting us take care of integrating data and updating it
  

Explore ITC’s offering of sustainable and inclusive tools designed to help businesses and women entrepreneurs enhance their production and processing practices, scale up the capacity of multiplier and business support organizations, collaborate with industry platforms to drive transparency and traceability, improve the visibility and connections of sustainable businesses and women entrepreneurs, and drive through leadership.

Whom do we help and how?

• Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs)
  We assist businesses in reducing their environmental impact, improving their working conditions and gaining access to new markets.
• Business support organizations (BSOs)
  We support stakeholders with gaining access to information, knowledge and skills to promote sustainability effectively, delivering all along the value chain.
• Policymakers
  We provide insights for policymaking to strengthen links between international trade and sustainability policies and transition towards a sustainable economy.
• Global brands
  We drive standards convergence and transparency to incentivize sustainable production and consumption.

Collecting and analyzing gender-disaggregated data helps identify the challenges and opportunities for women in trade more easily. The tool collects data through institutions and is not a business survey.

This tool can be used to:

• Map the environment for women in trade
• Examine data gaps
• Identify areas for potential inclusive policy reform
• Share and learn from good practices across countries

SheTrades Outlook covers 55 indicators across 6 pillars, namely trade policy, business environment, legal and regulatory framework, access to finance, access to skills and work and society. 

SheTrades Outlook Country Coverage

Navigating the constantly moving landscape of sustainability standards is challenging. That’s why we have developed a range of tools, specifically tailored for different actors along the value chain, to help you make informed decisions by better understanding available sustainability initiatives, and connect with like-minded business partners.

With our Standards Map you can:

• review 300+ standards by product, sector, area or focus and more;
• compare standards side by side across 1650+ criteria;
• see where you are in the standard compliance process and assess your business for sustainability readiness;
• explore market trends for 14 sustainability standards across nine commodities and forestry.