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<p>This project aims to enhance trade and investment between Europe and Guatemala, leveraging the Association Agreement with Central America. It forms part of the Global Gateway Investment Agenda (GGIA) for Guatemala. The project focuses on digitalizing the Ministry of Economy's services to facilitate trade and investment and includes a sectoral component to boost the competitiveness of the pharmaceutical and clothing industries through digitalization, sustainability, inclusiveness, and investment.</p>
<p>This project will enhance ITC offerings of global public goods by advancing the development of additional functionalities within the Deforestation-Free Trade Gateway (DFTG) whose development has recently started in March 2024 under the ITC project C374. The DFTG aims to mitigate the potential impact of the new European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) on trade flows between Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and the European Union, particularly for economic operators involved in the production and trade of the commodities covered by the Regulation.</p><p>The project will enhance and simplify the utilization of the Producers registry by introducing an invitation mechanism. This mechanism will enable EU operators and exporters to collect and compile the farm-level information from their suppliers through the DFTG, facilitating the substantiation of their Due Diligence (DD) statements. Furthermore, EU operators and LAC exporters will be able to issue a DD self-statement document with the information they gathered through the invitation mechanism.</p><p>The new functionalities under development will undergo testing within the same value chain and pilot countries as the Producers' registry. </p>
<p><strong>INVITACIÓN </strong></p><p><strong>En el marco del proyecto CRECER, el Centro de Comercio Internacional (ITC) de Naciones Unidas, en colaboración con INVEST Guatemala, se encuentran identificando oportunidades de negocios para empresas que deseen expandir su presencia en Guatemala, además de sus exportaciones hacia Centroamérica utilizando la ubicación estratégica del puesto fronterizo de Ciudad Pedro de Alvarado.</strong></p><p><strong>En este contexto, ITC e Invest Guatemala tienen el honor de invitarle al evento de presentación de los perfiles de inversión en Ciudad Pedro de Alvarado, Guatemala, resultado de una consultoría realizada por Deloitte, por encargo del ITC. Este evento se llevará a cabo el día viernes 26 de Abril de las 07:30 a las 11:00 y abarcará sectores priorizados de inversión, un análisis del retorno de inversión, así como una guía paso a paso para el sector privado.</strong></p><p><strong>Entre los participantes habrá partes interesadas de diferentes sectores, incluidos i) el Gobierno, ii) el sector privado y potenciales inversores, iii) las organizaciones de apoyo a las empresas, iv) los medios de comunicación y los grupos de reflexión.</strong></p><p><strong>Agradecemos sinceramente su interés y participación en este evento significativo. Quedamos a su disposición para cualquier consulta y esperamos contar con su grata presencia.</strong></p>
<p>This project will enhance ITC offerings of global public goods through the development of a tool, the Deforestation-Free Trade Gateway (DFTG), aimed to mitigate the potential impact of the new European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) on trade flows between Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and the European Union, particularly for economic operators involved in the production and trade of the commodities covered by the Regulation. </p><p>The project will develop a functionality, the Deforestation-Free-Trade Producer Registry, for value chain operators in both European and Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries to gather evidence that the products they trade do not originate from deforested or forest degraded areas. Thus, the Deforestation-Free Producer Registry will gather the farm-level information that the EU operators need for issuing their Due Diligence Statement.</p>
Companies are invited to apply to the programme. To qualify for the e-commerce training, companies must be:
Micro, small or medium companies where women hold at least 25% of leadership roles
Located in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama or Uruguay
Producer and marketer of products suitable for sale online, such as beauty and cosmetics, fashion, accessories, jewellery, handicrafts, toys, stationery, gourmet products, digital marketing, consulting services, and others.
<p><br></p><p dir="ltr"><strong>SheTrades Latin America is an initiative of ITC - SheTrades Global, implemented by ITC - ecomConnect. With the objective of empowering and training 1,000 women-led companies to enable them to sell their products and services online. The programme will run from June 2022 to December 2023. </strong></p><p dir="ltr"><strong>ITC works with strategic partner institutions specialized in e-commerce in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Panama and Uruguay, to develop tools and events in Spanish. The project aims to guide and assess a total of 1,000 beneficiary companies in their e-commerce journey on the virtual learning platform developed by the project.</strong></p><p dir="ltr"><strong>SheTrades LatAm will contribute to SDG 5 and the ITC target of "Connecting 3 Million Women to Markets." </strong></p><p><br></p><p>SheTrades Latin America es una iniciativa piloto de SheTrades Global, implementada por ecomConnect. Su objetivo es aumentar la digitalización de 1,000 empresas latinoamericanas lideradas por mujeres para vender en línea. El proyecto se comenzó en junio, 2022, y se llevará a cabo hasta diciembre de 2023.</p><p>El ITC trabaja con las instituciones técnicas especializadas en comercio digital en Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Panamá y Uruguay para desarrollar y probar las herramientas y eventos en español. El proyecto aspira a capacitar a un total de 1.000 empresas beneficiarias en su ruta para vender en línea utilizando la plataforma de aprendizaje virtual desarrollada en el marco del proyecto. </p><p>SheTrades LatAm contribuirá al ODS 5 y al objetivo del ITC de “Conectar a 3 millones de mujeres con el mercado”.</p>
