The launch of the Zimbabwe Leather Sector Strategy, designed to encourage home production of leather goods

Life is changing for 21-year-old Sreymom Heng, who lives with her parents in the village of Mreas Prov, in Cambodia’s southern Takeo province. She is one of 700 weavers who have seen a nearly 40% increase in their income thanks to the two-year ITC project...

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...

Viet Nam's export-oriented handicrafts sector is internationally recognized as one of the most competitive emerging markets for bulk supply. Several hundred crafts exporters with large producer networks through­out the country are providing employment for 1.35 million people in some 2,000 crafts villages, however, the rural families engaged in handicraft production are among the country’s poorest. Viet Nam is second only to China as an exporter of home décor items to the European Union (EU), and both the ITC and CBI enable exporters in country to meet EU requirements.

Designers in the Dominican Republic, Barbados, Trinidad and Jamaica are gaining valuable exposure to international processes and practices in the field of product design as the International Trade Centre (ITC) holds workshops aimed at honing the skills...

Creative industries can contribute significantly to economic growth in the Caribbean, but first good and timely information on the sector is needed, the International Trade Centre (ITC) will tell ministers and top officials at a meeting later this month.The...

Some 4,000 farming and craft-producing households in four northern provinces of Viet Nam will benefit from a multi-agency programme, led by ITC, which was launched recently with funding from Spain’s Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Achievement Fund...