Capacity Building

Provides a list of websites of SME support institutions to help your SME contact organizations, which will help expand and grow your business.

The EDIP provides training on identifying business opportunities, developing business plans, strengthening entrepreneurial competencies and acquiring the essential skills to manage a small venture.

The ILO provides a number of training packages to help your business. Information includes generating business ideas, improving your business costing and record keeping. 

Improve Your Exhibiting Skills (IYES) is a training package for facilitators to enhance women's capacity to access and participate in trade fairs.

UNEP provides an industrial training handbook for promoting resource efficiency in small and medium sized enterprises. The content focuses on the specific needs and organisational capabilities of SMEs in developing countries.

 ILO provides information on entrepreneurship and management skills, access to markets and guidelines on productivity and working conditions. The website provides a 2015 report on SMEs and employment creation. 

The TrainForTrade programme develops high quality courses and maintains high standard delivery by using technological means such as e-learning, mobile-learning and cloud learning in e-commerce, trade statistics, competition law and consumer protection.

The Trade Helpdesk simplifies market research for companies, especially MSMEs, by integrating trade and business information into a single online portal. 

UNCITRAL provides a legislative guide on how to make registering easier for SMEs. It presents streamlined and simplified registration procedures to reduce the registration burden and cost for businesses. 

The platform empowers women to achieve their economic potential by inspiring both women and men to become advocates, change makers and leaders. It provides resources, opportunities and a global platform for networking and learning.