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  • ITC assists small export businesses in developing countries to be successful.

    We do this by continually delivering, with our partners, trade development solutions to the private sector, trade support institutions and policymakers.  The measure of ITC’s success is in job creation, poverty reduction, improved community welfare, and increased revenue for businesses and communities. Therefore, ITC’s choice of intervention – and the measurement of its success – are determined by the commercial viability of the project along with its development impact.

  • Export Impact for Good means those who need it most will gain long-term, positive effects from trade. It means generating change at the policymaker, trade support institutions (TSIs) and enterprise levels beyond the life of ITC’s interventions.  This ultimately enables small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in developing and transition countries to expand their exports on a financially, socially and environmentally sustainable basis.    

    ITC has made significant contributions in promoting sustainable development through trade. Successful projects include poverty alleviation through linking communities to global value chains, empowering women exporters to access wider markets, and promoting ethical and green trade.  

    Millennium Development Goals

    All of ITC’s work supports the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).  Exports can have an immediate and tangible impact on people’s lives, both in the well-established trading countries and in those emerging from disruption and conflict. Exports generate employment and better incomes, contribute to women’s advancement and bring environmental benefits. 

    Impact of Partnerships

    The sustainability of ITC’s enagement, its long term impact, relies on the support given to the national and regional export promotion players. Partnerships with TSIs and their ownership of projects create the necessary conditions for ensuring the sustainability of ITC’s involvement.  

    ITC’s global partners are vital to improving export success. A global network of TSIs, advisors, counselors and trainers help ITC programmes and projects reach developing and least developed countries.   

    There are many positive results from the partnerships including: 

    •  Local networks and institutions are engaged with a global trade development resource 
    •  Local interest groups gain an effective model for collaboration 
    •  The facilitation of dialogue between the private and public sectors   

    ITC Delivery

    ITC has made significant changes in focusing project plans on achieving outcomes and impact. This required redesign in the overall project-cycle management.     

    ITC has measured a number of outcomes for the 2008-2009 period.   

    Strengthening the international competitiveness of enterprises through support and training to increase their international competitiveness.   

    •  Enterprises trained in formulating and implementing a business strategy: 245 
    •  Enterprises trained in to become export-ready: 38 
    •  Enterprises having met buyers and conducted business transactions due to ITC buyer-seller meetings: 281 
    •  Businesspeople who attended workshops and training sessions: 9,991 
    •  Workshops and training sessions held for enterprises: 297   

    Increasing the capacity of trade support institutions (TSIs) so that they better support businesses.   

    •  TSIs that improved their ranking on the ITC benchmarking programme: 22 
    •  Trade policy proposals presented to policymakers by TSIs: 21    

    Strengthen the integration of business sector into the global economy through enhanced support to policymakers.   

    •  Trade development strategies developed with the support of ITC: 33 
    •  Country networks created to generate multi-lateral trading: 74  

    Evaluation: focusing on outputs and impact

    In response to client demand and donor expectation, the timely achievement of planned outputs, outcomes and impact has a high profile in ITC planning and delivery. An improved project-cycle management process involves engaging ITC, with counterparts, in identifying agreed outputs and their intended impact. Stronger quality control in planning and monitoring will improve project management and delivery of outcomes and impact. Outputs are the basic deliverables of a project; impact focuses on the actions of the counterparts to be completed during the period following ITC support.

     

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