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The International Trade Centre (ITC) is the only development agency that is fully dedicated to supporting the internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
This means that the agency enables SMEs in developing and transition economies to become more competitive and connect to international markets for trade and investment, thus raising incomes and creating job opportunities, especially for women, young people, and poor communities.
Established in 1964, the International Trade Centre (ITC) is the joint agency of the World Trade Organization and the United Nations.
Our Products / Services (list)
Reduce proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty.
Create sound policy frameworks based on pro-poor and gender-sensitive development strategies.
Double productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women.
Provide access to knowledge, markets and opportunities for value addition.
Ensure sustainable food production systems.
Ensure youth and adults have relevant skills for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship.
Ensure women’s full and effective participation in business and trade and equal opportunities.
Support women’s equal rights to economic resources.
Enhance use of enabling technology to promote the empowerment of women.
Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation.
Promote policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation.
Encourage formalization and growth of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises.
Implement policies to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products.
Increase Aid for Trade support.
Ensure a conducive policy environment for industrial diversification and value addition.
Increase access of SMEs to financial services and integration into value chains and markets.
Achieve income growth of the bottom 40%.
Implement special and differential treatment for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, in accordance with WTO agreements.
Achieve sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources.
Support companies in adopting sustainable practices and integrating sustainability information into their reporting cycles.
Support effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels.
Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making.
Ensure participation of developing countries in the institutions of global governance.
Ensure a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system under the WTO.
Support significantly increased exports of developing countries, doubling the least developed countries’ share of global exports by 2020.
Realize timely implementation of duty-free and quota-free market access on a lasting basis for all least developed countries.
