06.12 ITC启动英联邦-尼日利亚SheTrades项目

ITC launches SheTrades Commonwealth – Nigeria

ITC启动英联邦-尼日利亚SheTrades项目

Nigerian women entrepreneurs to benefit from market-access training to increase export potential.

by ITC News

尼日利亚女企业家从市场准入培训中获益，以增加出口潜力。

来自ITC新闻

(Geneva/Lagos) – The International Trade Centre (ITC) today launched the Nigeria chapter of SheTrades in the Commonwealth to deliver greater economic returns for Nigerian women entrepreneurs.

(日内瓦/拉各斯) - 国际贸易中心(ITC)今天成立英联邦SheTrades项目尼日利亚分会，为尼日利亚妇女企业家提供更大的经济回报。

A dedicated project of ITC's global SheTrades initiative, the SheTrades in the Commonwealth Nigeria project aims to drive increased trade, productivity and competitiveness for women entrepreneurs and women-owned companies to ensure that they play an active role in international trade. Through intensive training and mentoring activities, the goal is to strengthen the capacities of 3,000 women-owned businesses with a view to generate sales worth £28 million ($38m) by 2020.

SheTrades英联邦尼日利亚项目是ITC全球SheTrades倡议的一个专门项目，目的是为女性企业家和女性所有的公司推动增加贸易、生产力和竞争力，以确保她们在国际贸易中发挥积极作用。通过强化培训和指导活动,加强3000家妇女所有的企业的能力，使它们在2020年生成2800万欧元(3800万美元)的销售价值。

Officially launched in April and funded by United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID), SheTrades in the Commonwealth was endorsed by UK Prime Minister Theresa May during the opening of the Commonwealth Business Forum (CBF) in London.

4月正式启动，由英国国际发展部资助，在伦敦举行的英联邦商业论坛(CBF)开幕式上，英国首相特蕾莎·梅(Theresa May)签署了英联邦SheTrades项目协议。

SheTrades in the Commonwealth – Nigeria will address challenges faced by women entrepreneurs, including access to and control over land, cumbersome business and financial institutional processes amongst other entrepreneurial challenges.

英联邦-尼日利亚SheTrades项目将解决女性企业家面临的挑战，包括获得和控制土地、繁琐的商业和金融机构程序以及其他的企业管理挑战。

'SheTrades in the Commonwealth will ensure that women entrepreneurs in Nigeria receive support tailored to their specific needs allowing them to propel their existing market representation and secure greater access to global trade,' said Nicholas Schlaepfer, Senior Programme Officer at ITC's Women and Trade Programme.

"英联邦的SheTrades项目将确保尼日利亚的妇女企业家得到符合其具体需要的支持，使她们能够推动其现有的市场代表性发展，并确保获得更大的全球贸易机会，"国际贸易组织妇女与贸易项目(Women and Trade Programme)的高级项目官员尼古拉斯·施弗说。

The SheTrades in the Commonwealth project will provide governments with better tools and information to implement gender-responsive policies and share best practices. Over a two-year period, ITC will initially work to increase the competitiveness of women entrepreneurs in the agriculture, apparel and services sectors in four Commonwealth focus countries: Bangladesh, Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria.

英联邦的SheTrades项目将为各国政府提供更好的工具和信息，以实施响应性别的政策并分享最佳实践。在两年内，国际贸易中心将首先努力提高四个英联邦重点国家的农业、服装和服务业妇女企业家的竞争力：孟加拉国、加纳、肯尼亚和尼日利亚。