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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We provide tailored support, aligned with national objectives, to grow trade opportunities for micro, small and medium businesses in developing countries.
<p>ITC will be<strong> </strong>co-organizing<strong> </strong>the session “Small Businesses as Agents of Change” with the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform during the Geneva Peace Week on Wednesday, 1 November 2023 from 15:00 to 17:45. This session will feature insights from ITC's forthcoming flagship report, "SME Competitiveness Outlook 2023," providing a deeper understanding of the critical role of small businesses within fragile contexts. </p><p>To register, please click: <a href="https://www.genevapeaceweek.ch/en/programme/schedule/action-library-pea…;
<p>This project primarily funds ITC’s corporate research function. This function is charged with delivering global public goods in the form of data and analysis that provide 1) business intelligence to beneficiary countries, and 2) key input to the organization’s TRTA interventions and thought leadership structure. </p><p>The research function’s data and analysis offer is structured around two key products. First, the ITC SME Competitiveness Survey (SMECS) is a process and a tool to collect timely and unique data on the factors that underpin firm competitiveness. Second, data collected through SMECS, other targeted <span style="background-color: rgb(235, 107, 86);">and tailored surveys also funded through the SMECS budget</span>, and secondary sources are used to produce the SME Competitiveness Outlook (SMECO), ITC’s annual flagship report, which studies key topics of relevance to small businesses. These two products, together with smaller research products (e.g. data visualizations, blogs, short policy papers, academic papers, inputs into partner organizations’ publications), also funded through this project, are widely disseminated to help decision makers identify obstacles and opportunities for small businesses and to strengthen ITC’s thought leadership on matters of SME competitiveness. </p>