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A competition to drive Eswatini's artisans to success

The EU and ITC structured this competition not just as a giveaway but as an opportunity to reward resilience and innovation

The European Union (EU) and International Trade Centre (ITC) launched a unique competition to empower Eswatini’s artisans by providing game-changing support to small businesses. This collaboration, with a Toyota 2.8 GD6 vehicle as the grand prize, aimed at driving innovation, market expansion, and new opportunities. When Bafanabethu ‘Bethu’ Gina, Managing…

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For Senegalese students, digital freelancing opens opportunities

Digital technologies are a major asset in getting younger professionals more work opportunities

With 22 million young people joining the workforce every year, Africa needs to create many more jobs. Digital technologies are a major asset in getting younger professionals more work opportunities. That’s why the NTF V Senegal Tech project organized practical training courses for students at the Cheikh Hamidou Kane Digital…

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South Sudan creates more jobs in farming

With 4.8 million euros from the European Union, the project focused on youth and women, who represented 70% of the participants

South Sudan is the world’s newest country, and among the least developed. After nearly five years of working with fruit and vegetable growers and sellers, the International Trade Centre (ITC) has shown how to create thousands of jobs and to grow small businesses. The Jobs creation and Trade Development programme focused on the…

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Tanzanian sunflowers blossom into new products

The new Sunflower Processing Unit in the eastern district of Uvinza will give a business boost to 21,000 people

Across Africa, countries often export raw materials that other countries turn into more valuable products. In Tanzania, farmers are working to reverse that trend with a new sunflower processing unit that can turn seeds into oil and other products. The new Sunflower Processing Unit in the eastern district of Uvinza…

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Ferragamo for artisan communities in Burkina Faso to promote women’s empowerment through the Ethical Fashion Initiative

The goal of this multi-annual partnership, including the support of the European Union and its OACPS Business Friendly Programme, has been the building of West Africa’s first cotton dyeing factory, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Ferragamo has partnered with Ethical Fashion Initiative (EFI), a programme of the International Trade Centre (ITC), the United Nations’ small business agency, to address a critical gap in the artisanal cotton supply chain in West Africa, which has a predominantly female workforce. The goal of this multi-annual partnership, including the…

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Stitching dreams: Empowering Malagasy women through fashion

Women, entrepreneurs from across Madagascar, came together to learn, create, and grow under a training programme led by the Academy of Design & Innovation (ADI) and the International Trade Centre (ITC)

In a vibrant workshop in Antananarivo, the hum of sewing machines mixed with the sound of laughter as 19 Malagasy women immersed themselves in an extraordinary opportunity. These women, entrepreneurs from across Madagascar, came together to learn, create, and grow under a training programme led by the Academy of Design…

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How digital skills bring world of work to Sierra Leone’s youth

READY Salone plans to reach 10,000 young people across Sierra Leone, particularly young women, to raise awareness about opportunities in the digital economy

After Fatmata Turay graduated from Limkokwing University, she faced the harsh realities of finding work in Sierra Leone, one of the world’s least-developed countries. But when the new ITC project READY Salone showed her how to market her skills globally through online platforms, she found a world of work that…

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Switching ON in Zambia: Welcoming the next generation of digital entrepreneurs

Over one in 10 Zambian youth are currently unemployed, at a critical moment in the implementation of the country’s National Development Plan 2022-2026

As digital technologies continue to reshape the way we live, work, and trade, there is a growing need for skilled workers to fill new digital jobs. This creates a major opportunity for Zambia’s youth population. Over one in 10 Zambian youth are currently unemployed, at a critical moment in the…

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SheTrades West Africa: Opening new opportunities for women in the cashew value chain

This project is active in Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, and also incorporates the shea and cassava value chains

Women play an important role in the cashew value chain in Côte d’Ivoire and Sierra Leone, but they face particular hurdles that can prevent their business efforts from achieving their full potential. One big challenge is the lack of recognition of women’s role in the sector, which means that there…

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Kenya - Achieving global reach for refugee entrepreneurs: A Dadaab story

One of the organizations that ITC works with in Dadaab is Nyota Farsamo Artisanal Collective, a Somali-Kenyan artisan collective which helps women refugees to start and build their businesses

In Kenya’s Garissa County, the Dadaab refugee complex has long hosted refugees from other countries in the region, particularly from Somalia but also from Ethiopia, South Sudan, and several others. In place for over three decades, the complex now has three main camps in operation. Some people have spent their…

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