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SHARE The Covid-19 pandemic is likely to exacerbate gender income inequality and overall wellbeing of women in least-developed countries, as their economies struggle to stage a recovery, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF) said in a joint report. "We had a long way to go to fix the world’s gender gap, and the pandemic has made the journey even more arduous, especially in the world’s poorest countries, where the challenges f...

More training, more links to buyers of rural arts means more income for women Northern Lao PDR is home to a host of traditional craftsmanship. Think slim skirts with hand-embroidered diamond motifs, or woven textiles dyed shades of blue, or handbags of knotted jungle vine. Generally produced for use locally, these items are also sold to the country’s foreign tourists, and sometimes trickle out as exports. But having such honed skills does not necessarily translate into good income for the wom...

How handicraft producers can modify product lines Tuesday May 25 2021 State minister for TourismGodfrey Kiwanda tours craft stalls during the launch of Handicrafts and Souvenir development project in Kampala in 2019. PHOTO/Eronie Kamukama Summary The Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities says diversifying Uganda’s tourism products, forms part of the wider strategy to strengthen one among the most affected sectors, owing to the Covid-19 pandemic. Doreen Katusiime, the Permanent Secret...

The Cambodian Women Entrepreneurs Association and the Netherlands Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation will work together to strengthen the capacity of Cambodia’s women entrepreneurs. - SUPPLIED PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Penh Post/ANN): The Cambodian Women Entrepreneurs Association (CWEA) and the Netherlands Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation will work together to strengthen the capacity of Cambodia’s women entrepreneurs. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed to this end on...

The shock of COVID-19 is definitely exposing those vulnerabilities. A new World Trade Organization (WTO) report, Strengthening Africa’s capacity to trade, addresses the disruptions to trade due to the pandemic and outlines the ways the international body is working to encourage trade flows on the continent. As LDCs, countries get additional international support with development assistance and with trade, and 33 of the 46 LDCs today are in Africa. What does the report say of African LDCs and ...

Share KE, UNDP to provide SMEs a digital boost Tue, 11 May 2021 Khmer Enterprise (KE) and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) have formed a strategic partnership to give a boost to the operational development of the Kingdoms e-commerce sector and small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), according to a May 11 joint press release. This new partnership between KE – a start-up ecosystem support arm under the Ministry of Economy and Finance – and the UNDP aims to strengthen and ensure the susta...

Tourism, apparel and sustainable development strategies are covered in new series of policy briefs from the Enhanced Integrated Framework International trade can be a powerful tool for least developed countries (LDCs) to reduce poverty and spur economic growth. But it is not a blanket solution. Individual country contexts, government planning and prioritizing, the private sector situation and other particularities – not to mention consumer preferences and global trends – intermingle in spur...

Japan supports EIF to help poorest countries recover from COVID 19, expand trade capacity Japan has contributed over USD 81,000 (approximately CHF 72,000) to the Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF) in 2021 to help least-developed countries (LDCs) use trade to combat the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The funding will help 46 least-developed countries (LDCs) across Africa, Asia and the Pacific tackle the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic by enhancing their capacity to trade. LD...

The 200 or so taro and cassava farmers in the Solomon Islands had likely not encountered this sort of workshop before. Neither, for that matter, have most people.

Guinea trying out south-south cooperation venture with Tunisia Trade in Guinea today centres mostly around the export of gold and bauxite, which is used to create aluminum. The country has the world’s largest deposits of the red rock, and aluminum prices are increasing. But, approximately 85% of Guinea’s population are subsistence agriculturalists, and the country is one of the poorest in the world. In an effort to expand the country’s income potential in agriculture, a new partnership ha...