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Trade for the Millennium Development Goals

ITC’s vision and mandate – export impact for good – aims to ensure that trade development creates employment and generates income, contributes to poverty reduction and the fulfilment of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

In targeted programmes we help to connect disadvantaged groups, including women, to global markets as a powerful means of addressing poverty, raising livelihoods in a sustainable manner and promoting entrepreneurship. “For good’’ thus stands, on the one hand, for ITC’s commitment to inclusive economic globalization, connecting the poorest and most marginalized to international markets as a means of addressing poverty and, on the other hand, for raising livelihoods through exports in a sustainable manner, with a lasting effect – for good.

Women sort and prepare ginger for export.

Poverty Reduction (MDG 1)

ITC’s pilot projects for export-led poverty reduction in 20 countries on three developing continents have generated jobs and higher incomes for disadvantaged communities through increased exports since 2003.

Three Kenyan farmers growing chillies for export in Lawan village, Barwessa, Kenya.

Women's Empowerment (MDG 3)

The entrepreneurial drive and potential of businesswomen to contribute to economic growth and export development are still widely untapped in many countries.

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Environmental Sustainability (MDG 7)

To reverse the loss of environmental resources, greater emphasis is required on safeguarding natural resources and on ‘agro-ecological’ practices for agricultural exports.

Global Partnership For Development (MDG 8)

Since the Monterrey Declaration of 2002, which firmly established the notion of North-South partnership in development cooperation, the 8th MDG has taken on special importance. It also has great significance for ITC as an organization facilitating the beneficial consequences of globalization.

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