e-learning

The SME Trade Academy provides a public learning platform with more than 100 free online courses on export development, sustainability, trade support, entrepreneurship, e-commerce, and market analysis.

Our courses are aimed at micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), mostly in developing and least-developed countries.

But others find our courses useful too: government agencies, policymakers, members of international organizations, trade and investment support institutions, and academia.

The SME Trade Academy is part of ITC. Our mission is to digitalize all of ITC’s group trainings, both online and in-person. We don’t just put courses on a computer. We enhance them by applying digital learning technologies.

We work in partnership with ITC project managers, business support organizations, academic institutions and development agencies to build and deliver learning solutions to ITC’s beneficiaries in developing environments.

The SME Trade Academy offers one-year Certificate and Diploma Programmes in international trade to participants in selected countries in partnership with the United Kingdom’s Institute of Exports and International Trade (IOE&IT).

The Academy also offers a one-year International Diploma in Supply Chain Management via a group of 30 network partners in Africa and Asia.

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.

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.