Not only because it has been developed by a team of gender specialists, African businesswomen and ITC experts but also because it addresses many of the challenges arising in the delivery of entrepreneurship training for women entrepreneurs. ACCESS! is a gender-responsive programme to:
Empower women to manage their businesses,
Identify the gender-based challenges and build the skills and resources women need to address,
Offer tailor-made services such as export training services, business counseling, product design and development and access to foreign markets,
Develop a network of partner institutions and experts for increased sustainability and ownership.
Because of its modularity, the number of very specific case studies on businesswomen, concrete examples illustrating the export training course and the extensive network of ACCESS! certified national training teams, ACCESS! has become one of ITC’s flagship programmes supporting women exporters in Africa and a powerful tool for building confidence and trade success.
Visit ITC's Women & Trade website for more information on:
- Raising awareness of women's contribution to the global economy
- Linking Buyers and Sellers
- Strengthening Trade Supports Institutions
- Gender-responsive trade diagnostic tools
- Gender Mainstreaming at ITC