Partners and Policy Makers
Partners and Policy Makers
Making a difference with ITC.
Build competitive SMEs
SMEs are our specialty and we offer our expertise and services to help your development initiatives achieve the best possible impact. ITC, as the joint organization of the United Nations and the World Trade Organization, is the only international development institution with a clear mandate to focus on SME development.
Cluster analysis
The Benchmarking platform allows to run clustered assessments on complete cohorts of SME beneficiaries. This can help you assess the needs of an entire business ecosystem, while simultaneously understanding the needs of individual companies. You can also segment and group beneficiaries depending on scores and needs, and facilitate the delivery of tailored services.
SME performance diagnostic tool
Our SME Diagnostic tool offers a comprehensive, adaptable assessment methodology to ensure you understand the real needs of your beneficiaries. Our SME diagnostic tool provides a wide range of functionalities such as:
Assess your SME beneficiaries
Understand their strengths and challenges
Design tailored services that serve their needs
Re-assess to manage improvement over time
ITC tools and services
ITC offers a range of online, free-to-use tools to make global trade more transparent and facilitate access to international markets. These tools can help SMEs identify export and import opportunities, compare market-access requirements, monitor national trade performance, and make informed business decisions.
Improve your impact
Gain knowledge of SME needs
Strategically manage your beneficiaries
Use needs assessment to inform service design
Improve policy advocacy by identifying trends
Deliver better, sustainably-focused services
Understand your impact by measuring beneficiaries' improvement
Supporting SMEs through BSOs
Capable, expert BSOs are critical partners for the sustainable success of any SME focused initiative. ITC's Benchmarking platform provides a single hub for improving the capacity of both institutions and businesses, while linking them together for sustainable and long-term impact.
Let’s build for success together
We help you deliver meaningful, sustainable impact. Unlock access to our decades of experience in building SME competitiveness.
Discover our BSO Directory
Search ITC's Global BSO Director to find potential BSO partners for your SME development initiative.
See how SMEs are doing
The benefits of growth do not always reach everyone and excessive burdens may be placed on the environment. To respond, we have mainstreamed key sustainability themes throughout our assessments.