ITC provides a wealth of information and resources on trade for businesses in developing countries. The tools below (some of them joint projects with other organisations, such as the WTO, UNCTAD, World Bank Group, are intended to explore and facilitate trade with other countries.
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<p>Join over 300 senior trade representatives of national trade promotion organizations in Doha at this unique networking event. Participants discuss common challenges, exchange good practices, and develop new business relationships for trade support. </p><p>Pre-conference activities and a welcome reception will take place on 30 September 2024.</p>
<p>ICC, ITC, WIPO and WTO invites Chambers and firms' representatives coming to the 13th World Chambers Congress in Geneva to a half-day (9h00-13h30) side-event at the Nations Business Centre, Rue du Pré-de-la-Bichette 1, 1201 Genève. </p><p>This free side-event aims to help Chambers, firms, and Business Support Organizations (BSOs) to assess their performance and access timely trade intelligence, through selected digital platforms, tools and mechanisms developed by ITC, WTO, WIPO and ICC through the Centre of Entrepreneurship.</p><p>Participants will learn how to:</p><ul><li>Access digital tools for small businesses and entrepreneurs to identify and compare opportunities across the world</li><li>Assess the performance of their organization in offering support to entrepreneurs </li><li>Diagnose the intellectual property (IP) needs of entrepreneurs</li><li>Connect with a local centre of entrepreneurship to build further expertise. </li></ul>
<p><a name="_Hlk155357558"><span style="color: rgb(97, 189, 109);">Business support organizations (BSOs) are critical actors in an ecosystem of business support, categorized by the formal and informal connections among service providers that recognises and takes advantage of shared objectives and complementary strengths.</span></a></p><p><span style="color: rgb(97, 189, 109);">ITC has developed a unique centre of excellence in the establishment, improvement and connectedness of business support organizations. This work with BSOs is embedded as a core service area for ITCs strategy and recognises the role that BSOs play in delivering results to all stakeholders through their ability to create scale, systemic change and sustained results</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(97, 189, 109);">In this strategic cycle (22-25), ITC will continue to serve a broad range of BSOs including those active in ITC’s priority impact areas of youth entrepreneurship, green trade, digitalisation and gender, with managerial and operational solutions, but also invest more in ecosystem level interventions, and make use of digital channels for efficiency, scale and value.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(97, 189, 109);">This docu<span>ment sets out a 4-year perspective (2022-20225) and 4 strategic objectives for supportive business ecosystems with, specific outputs and activities describing the year-on-year contribution of W1 funding to the strategic core service area 2.</span></span></p>