ICOYACA at the WTO-ITC High Level Event on Women and Trade

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March 25, 2026

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March 25, 2026

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Palais des Congrès, Yaoundé, Cameroon

WTO-ITC High Level Event on Women and Trade - MC14 Yaoundé

The WTO-ITC High Level Event on Women and Trade was held on 25 March 2026 at the Palais des Congrès in Yaoundé, Cameroon, on the margins of the 14th WTO Ministerial Conference.

Co-hosted by the World Trade Organization and the International Trade Centre, the event spotlighted three global initiatives: the Women Exporters in the Digital Economy (WEIDE) Fund, a US$50 million initiative supporting women entrepreneurs through digital trade and internationalisation; the ITC SheTrades Initiative, which has reached hundreds of thousands of women globally over the past decade; and the WTO Informal Working Group on Trade and Gender, which has been advancing inclusive trade commitments among WTO members since 2020.

The programme included opening remarks from WTO Director-General Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and ITC Executive Director Ms Pamela Coke-Hamilton, an interactive survey session drawing on data from 100 WEIDE Fund beneficiaries, the second edition of the SheTrades Innovation Festival featuring four African women innovators and the launch of new joint IWG-MSME Group policy documents on women and digitalisation.

The $5,000 SheTrades Innovation Festival grant was awarded to Phebe Ilesanmi of Trashcoin, Nigeria.

ICOYACA participated in the event as part of its continental mandate to ensure young African women's voices are present in high-level trade policy spaces.

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