ITC SheTrades Accelerator Programme

The ITC SheTrades Accelerator Programme (STAP) aims to promote income generation and job creation for women-led businesses and their communities by strengthening the business support ecosystem and increasing the competitiveness of and creating new market linkages and business opportunities for women-led businesses.
Implemented between October 2021 and March 2024.
About the project
The SheTrades Accelerator Programme (STAP) is funded by GIZ and forming part of the Global Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) which is commissioned by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) over the period 2021 to 2023.

The programme aims to promote income generation and job creation for women-led businesses (WLBs) and their community by:
  • Strengthening the business support ecosystem to better support the growth of women’s economic empowerment initiatives and activities;
  • Increasing the competitiveness of women-led businesses;
  • Creating new market linkages and business opportunities for women-led businesses in the sector.
STAP supports women-led businesses (WLBs) and BSOs in the Apparel, Accessories, and Home Decor sector from Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Senegal, and South Africa.
STAP Partnerships with ITC Projects
  • ITC SheTrades Commonwealth project, funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, this programme also supports WLBs and BSOs in the Apparel, Accessories and Home Decor sectors in Pakistan.
  • ITC UKTP project, funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, this programme also supports WLBs and BSOs in the Apparel, Accessories, Beauty and Home Decor sectors in Zimbabwe.
  • ITC UKTP project, funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, this programme also supports WLBs and BSOs in the Shea Beauty Products Sector in Nigeria

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ITC SheTrades: Empowering Women and Boosting Livelihoods through Agricultural Trade – Leveraging the AfCFTA — Phase II

Co-implemented by ITC SheTrades and the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the EWAT project aims to facilitate women’s participation in and expansion into regional and continental value chains. The project delivers capacity building to women in the agrifood sector and thought leadership through value chain studies.
Implemented from Dec 2021 – 2023 in Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and Tanzania
About the project
The SheTrades: Empowering Women and Boosting Livelihoods through Agricultural Trade: Leveraging the AfCFTA project (FAO-ITC EWAT project) is co-implemented by ITC SheTrades and FAO and runs from between December 2021 and 2023.

The project targets African women producers, processors and traders in the agrifood sector and aims to:
  • Facilitate women’s participation in regional value chains and expansion into continental value chains
  • Map regional value chains (RVCs) in the agriculture and agro-processing sectors, in which there is high potential for women to benefit when trading under the AfCFTA
Milestones
Under its first phase (December 2021 – 2022), the project delivered:
  • Four online trainings on non-tariff measures, trade facilitation, technical barriers to trade, and sanitary and phytosanitary measures;
  • Four AfCFTA-focused policy briefs containing analyses and recommendations to promote greater gender-responsiveness in non-tariff measures, trade facilitation, technical barriers to trade, and sanitary and phytosanitary measures;
  • Three trade-facilitation workshops for 200 women agripreneurs in Ghana, Malawi and, Nigeria
  • Two regional studies on the fisheries and soybean-to-poultry value chains in West Africa (Ghana and Nigeria) and Southern Africa (Malawi and South Africa) respectively.
Under its second phase (December 2022 – 2023), the project delivered:
  • Two trade-facilitation workshops for 79 women producers, processors and traders in Senegal and Tanzania;
  • Two investment-readiness bootcamps women agripreneurs in Ghana and Nigeria
  • Two studies on the fisheries and soybean-to-poultry value chains in Senegal and Tanzania respectively.
Resources
  • FAO-ITC EWAT Brochure. Available in English.
  • Policy brief: Trade facilitation in the agrifood sector. Available in English and French
  • Policy brief: Non-tariff measures in the agrifood sector. Available in English and French

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