Tag: Women in Trade

The African Union Commission is implementing a project to empower women through agricultural entrepreneurship. The project, supported by the UNDP, and implemented by UN Women throu...

As Africa gears up for the post-2015 development negotiations participants attending the experts segment of the 9th Regional Review of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Acti...

Rwanda is a leading example of the successful integration of gender considerations in a country’s legislation and development framework, a new UNCTAD study has found, leading to ...

The potential positive impact of foreign investment on women’s empowerment through the creation of formal employment and business linkages is considerable, but the operations of ...

The International Trade Centre (ITC) has launched a new initiative expected to push for increased participation of women entrepreneurs in public procurement. The initiative is hop...

Unfriendly trade policies cripple progress Daily, millions of women in Africa are engaged in one form of trade or another, either within their countries or across national borders...

In August 2008, Heads of State of the Southern African Development Community adopted the ground-breaking SADC Protocol on Gender and Development. This followed a concerted campaign...

“Building Linkages to Break Barriers” 11th to 15th August 2014 Nairobi, Kenya The Bureau of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission in partnership with the UNDP Regi...

The East African partner states need to harmonise laws that increase access of credit to women, activists have said.  Women entrepreneurs from Kenya and Uganda operating smal...

New UNCTAD-EIF study of the fisheries sector in The Gambia shows trade policies have to be inclusive if they are to reduce poverty. The expansion of the fisheries sector could hel...

In many countries in Africa, the majority of small farmers are women. They produce crops such as maize, cassava, cotton, and rice that have enormous potential for increased trade b...