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  • Peru Alpaca Project

    ITC invites women business owners and buyers interested in sourcing from women vendors, to join the Global Platform for Action on Sourcing from Women Vendors. Registration is simple see http://www.intracen.org/Global-Platform-for-Action-on-Sourcing-from-Women-Vendors/ 

    ITC is active in building women’s capacity to meet buyers’ requirements. One of our projects that has generated over USD1 million in sales for beneficiaries in 18 months, focused assistance on women in alpaca in Arequipa, Peru. See the video and brochure.  ITC works with institutions such as Promperú and organisations like SPINNA to ensure sustained support through linking women entrepreneurs to networks active in capacity building and sales.

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    Alpaca project in Arequipa, Peru

     

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  • Highlights

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    24.04.2012

    The League of Arab States (LAS) region could increase trade among its member states by 10% and create two million new jobs by removing obstacles to intra-regional trade, according to new research by ITC...

    23.04.2012

    The economic empowerment of women is a critical factor to the achievement of development goals. That was the message from ITC’s Executive Director, Ms. Patricia Francis, during UNCTAD’s High-level Event on Women in Development on Monday 23 April, where panelists agreed that policies that support women in developing countries must be enacted...

    01.04.2012

    Many small and developing countries have a rich cultural heritage and a living tradition of craftsmanship that their populations can draw on when creating artisanal products that will appeal to buyers abroad. Growing commercialization of the arts has...

    24.02.2012

    Women represent half the global population, but they are almost invisible as suppliers to large procurement organizations. In developing countries like India, the majority of women workers are part of the unorganized sector making it difficult to track...

    09.01.2012

    The Centre for African Women Economic Empowerment in Ethiopia (CAWEE), one of ITC's ACCESS! Focal Point institutions, recently developed a website to help bolster its efforts to promote female exporters in the country and in the African continent at large...

    28.09.2011

    Women-owned businesses from around the world have made connections and formed relationships with multinational companies at the International Trade Centre (ITC)’s Women Vendors Exhibition and Forum in Chongqing, China.More than 250 women entrepreneurs...

    27.09.2011

    ITC is working with partners to bring together women business owners from around the world and top-level executives from multinational companies for business matching and mentorship. The connections and learning experiences...

    08.03.2011

    The International Trade Centre (ITC) is showcasing the success of women in the coffee industry as part of the celebration of the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day.  The event on 8 March 2011 is hosted by WTO and ITC at the WTO....

    10.03.2010

    Building a network of Pacific women in business. More than 50 Pacific business women from 14 Pacific nations and Timor Leste will gather in Port Vila, Vanuatu, later this month...

    01.02.2010

    The United Kingdom and the International Trade Centre (ITC) have launched a new three year partnership to implement their common strategy on Aid for Trade, with a special focus on providing business development support to women traders in developing countries... 

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