About the SheTrades Bangladesh Hub

Creating the right conditions and capacities for women to participate in and benefit equally from trade requires all key stakeholders in the trade and business ecosystem to be activated.

This is why in 2023, SME Foundation established the SheTrades Bangladesh Hub in partnership with the International Trade Centre’s – a joint agency of the United Nations and the World Trade Organization – flagship Women and Trade Programme, the SheTrades Initiative. 

The SheTrades Bangladesh Hub serves as a resource centre for Bangladeshi women entrepreneurs. It adopts a three-pronged approach to ensure that the right conditions and capacities are in place for women-led businesses to thrive in international trade:

• Equipping women entrepreneurs with market-relevant skills and knowledge and facilitating their access to market and investment opportunities;
• Bringing together a community of partners (e.g. business support organizations, corporations, development partners, etc) and harnessing synergies to improve the business and trade environment for women; and
• Advocating for gender-inclusive policy reforms nationally.

Since its inception, over 200 women-led businesses have joined our community and benefited from opportunities offered by both SME Foundation and the ITC SheTrades Initiative headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

How can you join the SheTrades Bangladesh Hub?

On top of the wide array of opportunities open to all women registered on SheTrades.com, women-led businesses of SheTrades Hubs also gain exclusive access to Hubs-only capacity building and business generation activities. These may range from support to participate in regional or international trade fairs, or opportunities to participate in on-site or virtual trainings and coaching on a multitude of themes (e.g. digitalization, crisis management and risk assessment, etc).

Joining the SheTrades Bangladesh Hub is easy. Interested women entrepreneurs may do so by completing this https://forms.office.com/e/gBiDQJjFRn.

Have questions? Reach out to us at masudur.rahman@smef.gov.bd
 

Launching ceremony of SheTrades Hub Bangladesh (Hosted by SME Foundation )

SheTrades Bangladesh Hub representatives attended ITC SheTrades Annual Meeting 2023 in Geneva

     
SheTrades Bangladesh Hub representatives attended High-Level Event on the Launch of the WTO-ITC Women Exporters in the Digital Economy Fund (WEIDE) in Abu Dhabi

Training on CANVA for members of the SheTrades Bangladesh Hub
 

Sharing session on 'The Implications of LDC Graduation in Bangladesh: Women-Led Busiess Perspective' held on 06 March 2024 in Dhaka

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SheTrades Bangladesh Hub unveils new export resource and delivers IP and export
competitiveness training on june, 08, 2024 at Hotel fars & resort, Dhaka
 

Be part of our community of women leaders

Apart from exclusive benefits available through the SheTrades Bangladesh Hub, Bangladeshi women entrepreneurs can access additional opportunities by being a member of the ITC SheTrades Initiative.

With a registered account on SheTrades.com, entrepreneurs can:

• Connect with other women-led businesses, business support organizations and international partners;
• Apply for opportunities to participate in workshops, trade fairs, etc;
• Acquire new skills and knowledge through ITC’s resources, programmes and tools;
• Stay updated on upcoming opportunities, news, success stories and publications.

To learn more about the SheTrades Initiative and join our global community, visit www.shetrades.com.

Additional Resources

Learn more about the ITC SheTrades Initiative: click here (https://www.shetrades.com/).
In need of business financing? Click here (https://shetradesinvest.converve.io/index.php) to learn more about ITC SheTrades Invest.

Links of the new resources:
Want to learn how to better manage crisis and risks?
Click here / (https://www.shetrades.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ITC-SheTrades-Crisis-Management-Toolkit_2021.pdf) to access the ITC SheTrades Crisis Management Toolkit
Click here / (https://www.shetrades.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SheTrades-Risk-Assessment-Toolkit_EN_Digital_v2.pdf) to assess the ITC SheTrades Risk assessment Toolkit