UN Initiatives

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.

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.

GET Ahead for Women in Enterprise is a training package and resource kit for low-income women and men engaged in or wishing to start a small-scale business. It  highlights entrepreneurial skills from a gender perspective.

 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 WIPO IP Portal assists applicants in seeking patent protection internationally for their inventions, helps patent offices with their patent granting decisions, and facilitates public access to a wealth of technical information relating to those inventions. 

Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) is an ILO global programme that improves productivity and working conditions in small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

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 Entrepreneurship Training Workshop (ETW) aims to foster the motivation and self-confidence of participants who have chosen to start or expand their businesses.

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