Done properly and at scale, trade facilitation can transform lives, creating opportunity and empowering sustainable development.
Making trade easier also strengthens the supply chains we all depend upon for basic commodities, including food, shelter, and healthcare supplies.
Trade that is simple, fast, and cost-effective can enable businesses of all sizes to take advantage of global market opportunities, generating employment and investment and driving inclusive economic growth.
In low and middle-income countries, resource-strapped MSMEs, many of them women-owned or led, have most to gain cutting the time and cost of global trade. Today, red tape and onerous procedures effectively lock them out of international trade.
We achieve measurable results, including time and cost reductions, increased trust through public-private sector engagement, procedural predictability, and transparency.
Our impacts are many and varied. Modernising processes streamlines trade, driving economic growth and ultimately reducing poverty in low and middle-income countries.
Trade facilitation is crucial to strengthening supply chain resilience, supporting economic development and reinforcing broader societal stability and wellbeing. Our projects help move a wide variety of goods more quickly, safely, and cost-effectively, including manufacturing inputs, vital consumer products, foodstuffs, medical supplies, and humanitarian assistance.
