Iran: Trade-Related Technical Assistance

    Overview

    Summary

    The overall objective is to contribute to sustainable economic and social development in Iran, through increased and diversified trade in goods and services. More specifically, this project aims to support the business sector, including high potential SMEs, by facilitating the drafting of a National Export Strategy, supporting the development of selected value chains, providing technical cooperation to Iran's Trade Promotion Organization (I-TPO), and establishing a youth trade accelerator programme. The project was designed by ITC jointly with the Government of Iran, namely the Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade (MIMT). Project partners include the ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Agriculture, Chambers of Commerce, sector associations, and the Iran Trade Promotion Organization.

    Partners

    Sustainable Development Goals

    This project contributes to the following Sustainable Development Goals, as defined by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

    Context

    Fostering inclusive and sustainable trade-led growth in Iran 

    The International Trade Centre’s EU-Iran Development project is designed to improve Iran’s growing private sector. The five-year 2019-2023 project brings together Iranian policymakers, trade support institutions, private sector organizations, and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). 

    Together with these stakeholders, we are: 

    • implementing the National Export Strategy 

    • providing direct assistance to SMEs and taking select companies into international markets 

    • setting up the Europe-Iran Business Forum (EIBF), where over 2,000 Iranian managers and companies may receive training and engage in B2B matchmaking with European companies 

    • promoting e-commerce and capacity building on digital marketing tools 

    • enabling targeted market access into the European Union 

    • promoting sustainable, climate-resilient agriculture 

    • promoting organic certification of Iran’s unique medicinal plants, harvested mostly by women 

    Improving the environment in which Iran’s private sector may thrive.
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    Iran News
    30 May 2022
    Tehran Times
    29 May 2022
    Ilna
    29 May 2022
    Tehran Times
    8 May 2022
    MEHR news agency
    7 May 2022
    Islamic Republic News Agency [EN]
    9 May 2022
    en.trend.az
    11 May 2022
    Ilna news
    8 May 2022
    News TPO
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    irna
    8 May 2022
    TPO
    24 Jan 2022
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    mehrnews
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    shomavaeghtesad
    23 May 2022
    Islamic Republic News Agency [EN]
    9 May 2022
    Tehran Times
    8 May 2022
    MEHR news agency
    7 May 2022
    iranpress.com
    11 May 2022
    en.trend.az
    11 May 2022

    ITC contact

    Marie-Claude
    Frauenrath
    Email
    frauenrath [at] intracen.org