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SheTrades Women’s Business Initiative

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Opportunity type

Other

Funding

No Funding

Location

Global

Deadline

Rolling

About this opportunity

SheTrades is a global platform that aims to connect 3 million women entrepreneurs to international markets. It provides training, networking, and investment opportunities to women-led businesses, helping them scale globally and close the gender gap in trade.

Benefits include:

Access to SheTrades Academy (200+ e-learning courses, webinars, and resources)
Participation in SheTrades Hubs (regional centers supporting women entrepreneurs, e.g., SheTrades Philippines, SheTrades Rwanda)
SheTrades Invest program linking women-led SMEs with investors and capital providers
Networking with buyers, partners, and global trade stakeholders
Visibility through ITC publications, events, and showcases

Who can apply

Must be a woman entrepreneur or represent a women‑led business/SME
Register on the SheTrades platform to access courses, events, and opportunities
Projects must align with SheTrades focus areas: trade, investment readiness, capacity building, and gender‑lens entrepreneurship
Participation may involve joining a SheTrades Hub in your country/region
For SheTrades Invest: applicants must be women‑led SMEs seeking capital and willing to undergo due diligence training
Running a project or organization
Entrepreneur

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Good to know

+Impeccable institutional backing: the International Trade Centre is the joint agency of the World Trade Organization and the United Nations
+Real footprint: present in over 30 countries with 22 hubs across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and North Africa
+Genuinely free and genuinely useful content: certified e-learning, webinar recordings, publications and a route to connect with capital providers
+Named corporate partners with live programming, including courses translated into Bangla, Vietnamese and Russian

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!THIS IS AN ORGANISATION'S PLATFORM, NOT AN OPPORTUNITY. There is no application, no deadline, no selection, no cohort, no award and no place. Clicking Apply lands a young person on an account-creation screen. On LOT it is presented as something you can apply for, and it is not
!IT IS NOT A YOUTH OPPORTUNITY. No age criterion appears anywhere on the site. The audience is women entrepreneurs, producers and traders of any age, plus policymakers, buyers and investors
!No eligibility criteria of any kind are published, so a reader cannot tell whether they qualify
!What a member actually gets is never quantified. The homepage promises you can learn what opportunities you can apply for, but those opportunities are unnamed, undated and behind the login
!Two of the sub-pages a reader would naturally try both return 404 from their own navigation
!RECOMMENDATION: retire this record, or replace it with a specific, dated, youth-eligible programme that a young person can actually act on

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About this opportunity

Benefits include:

Access to SheTrades Academy (200+ e-learning courses, webinars, and resources)
Participation in SheTrades Hubs (regional centers supporting women entrepreneurs, e.g., SheTrades Philippines, SheTrades Rwanda)
SheTrades Invest program linking women-led SMEs with investors and capital providers
Networking with buyers, partners, and global trade stakeholders
Visibility through ITC publications, events, and showcases

Who can apply

Must be a woman entrepreneur or represent a women‑led business/SME
Register on the SheTrades platform to access courses, events, and opportunities
Projects must align with SheTrades focus areas: trade, investment readiness, capacity building, and gender‑lens entrepreneurship
Participation may involve joining a SheTrades Hub in your country/region
For SheTrades Invest: applicants must be women‑led SMEs seeking capital and willing to undergo due diligence training
Running a project or organization
Entrepreneur