• 729 women-led businesses enrolled in the virtual learning courses from Argentina, Colombia, Chile and Uruguay
• 250 women-led businesses trained by local institutions on how to use ITC’s digital tools
• Two webinars on leveraging the power of e-commerce to technical institutions
• One networking session for entrepreneurs, partners and business support organizations
• 25 new Spanish digital tools and methodologies developed to prepare Latin American women-led-businesses to operate in the new digital world

• Visa and Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Tourism Destination Resilience website provides Digital and Financial Skills Self-Paced Courses in 6 languages to boost their digital, financial and cybersecurity literacy.

• Visa collaborated with UNCDF’s Build Back Better programme to improve the recovery and resiliency of small and microbusinesses in Bangladesh. This project developed e-learning modules in EkShop, a national ecommerce platform for small and microbusinesses, where they can access proprietary learning contents, audio-visual and app-base tools.

• The virtual Daraz University platform is created to provide business upskilling resources for enrolled sellers. SMEs selling on the Daraz platform will have access to exclusive resources, tools, services and support center access.  

• The Asia Foundation provides mentoring, digital upskilling and marketplace access support to women micro-entrepreneurs in Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, India, and other markets. Interested women may sign up for the Accelerate My Business program in markets where this programme is active. 

• Nearly 4,500 women entrepreneurs received skills trainings;
• Over 400 women entrepreneurs benefitted from new services;
• $1.2 million in business leads generated by 39 women entrepreneurs from Nigeria, Rwanda, Kenya and Trinidad & Tobago at the Fruit Attraction Trade Fair (October 2022);
• 15 in-country and two regional hubs equipped to offer enhanced services, covering crisis management, digital workshops, marketing and more;
• Mauritius and South Africa SheTrades Hubs explored opportunities to co-organize a regional-level training for WLBs on market access and export development following peer-to peer sessions in March 2023.

• Resources
  SheTrades Hubs Brochure – Available in English

• Directly supported over 4,000 women entrepreneurs and women-owned businesses in the Commonwealth countries and its key trading countries by providing almost 1,000 training and coaching on international trade in multiple languages;
• Helped to generate over £32 million of sales for those women-owned businesses in sectors ranging from tourism to agrifood and from textiles to IT;
• Supported the creation of over 6,600 jobs, of which over 70% went to women, in those businesses and their supply chains;
• Worked with almost 100 business support organizations, among which 13 organizations are hosting SheTrades Hubs, to create an enabling environment for women entrepreneurs to succeed in international trade;
• Launched and rolled-out SheTrades Outlook to 52 countries, which has helped to collect data and best practices on trade policy that affect women entrepreneurs and their business, and created the SheTrades Outlook network, which has connected government officials from 26 countries to share best practices and lessons learned on trade and gender agenda;
• Developed 12 SheTrades Outlook policy briefs and engaged country-based government officials from 33 countries to raise their awareness on good practices through the SheTrades Outlook Network;
• Supported approximately 20% Commonwealth countries to make their trade and trade-related policies more gender inclusive, including expanding market opportunities for women entrepreneurs through public procurement.

Resources

• Women-led businesses in Mozambique’s energy sector: Challenges and opportunities Available in English
• Mainstreaming gender in free trade agreements – Available in English and Spanish.
• Making public procurement work for women – Available in English, French and Spanish.
• From design to evaluation: Making trade policy work for women – Available in English and French.
• Exporting to Great Britain: A handbook for Bangladeshi women-led businesses in the women’s accessories, textiles and apparel and home décor sectors. Available in English.

• Community Building and Regional Collaboration: Fostering networking and collaboration between women entrepreneurs across the six countries and key public and private stakeholders.
• Business assessment and diagnosis: Leveraging the Self-Assessment tool to enable women entrepreneurs to conduct a 360-degree business diagnosis and evaluate their learning needs.
• Virtual Acceleration Bootcamps: Over 100 women entrepreneurs participated in the customized virtual bootcamps covering topics such as access to funding, digitalization, e-commerce, and sustainability.
• Country workshops (November to December 2023): Delivery of technical workshops on business competitiveness and digitalization in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Qatar, providing guidance to a group of 40 women entrepreneurs (per country).
• One-to-one advisory support (December to February 2023): over the course of 8 weeks, 30 finalists (5 per country) will receive tailored guidance and insights to boost their business and financial strategies.