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.

The Ye! Community platform support youth entrepreneurs to succeed in an ever-changing world.

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.

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 though 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 83 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