Creating the right conditions and capacities for women to participate in and benefit equally from trade requires all key stakeholders in the trade and business ecosystem to be activated.

This is why SME Foundation established the ITC SheTrades Bangladesh Hub in 2023 to deliver tailored capacity building and business generation activities for women in Bangladesh.

Since its inception, over [insert a rounded up figure of Hub members] women-led businesses have joined our community and benefited from opportunities offered by both SME Foundation and the ITC SheTrades Initiative headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

Launching ceremony of SheTrades Hub Bangladesh (Hosted by SME Foundation )

 

What are ITC SheTrades Hubs?

        ITC SheTrades Hubs are decentralized platforms through which the ITC SheTrades Initiative delivers in-country interventions.

        Administered by local institutions, SheTrades Hubs help increase the sustainability of the Initiative s interventions by promoting local ownership and alignment with national and sectoral priorities.

To support national institutions to deliver on their commitment, Hubs receive institutional strengthening support by ITC (e.g. co-delivery of training and B2B services, service digitalization, gender-responsive public procurement, etc) and benefit from peer-to-peer learning with a growing network of over 12 Hubs across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America.

How can you benefit?

On top of the wide array of opportunities open to all women registered on SheTrades.com, women-led businesses of SheTrades Hubs also gain exclusive access to Hubs-only capacity building and business generation activities. These may range from support to participate in regional or international trade fairs, or opportunities to participate in on-site or virtual trainings and coaching on a multitude of themes (e.g. digitalization, crisis management and risk assessment, etc).

Launching ceremony of SheTrades Hub Bangladesh (Hosted by SME Foundation )

Be part of our community of women leaders

Interested? Follow two easy steps to be a member of the SheTrades Bangladesh Hub:

(i)            Register your business on SheTrades.com*.

(ii)           Ensure that your profile is complete and accurate. If the wrong country option is selected, you will not be automatically enrolled into the Hub network.

*If you face any issues with registering on SheTrades.com, send us an email at shetradeshubs@intracen.org. In your email, please include a screenshot of the error and provide a description of your technical difficulties.

Have questions?

For enquiries on the Hub, please send an email to [Insert name and job title of Hub institution focal point], putting shetradeshubs@intracen.org in copy.

Additional Resources

         Learn more about the ITC SheTrades Initiative: click here.

         Want to learn how to better manage crisis and risks?

o   Click here to access the ITC SheTrades Crisis Management Toolkit

o   Click here to assess the ITC SheTrades Risk assessment Toolkit

         In need of business financing? Click here to learn more about ITC SheTrades Invest.