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E-Trade for Impact: Turbo-charge the SDGs with Digital

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Session 119

16:30–18:15, Thursday, 22 March 2018 Room H2, ITU Montbrillant Thematic Workshop Speakers/Panellists  Link to WSIS Action Lines  Link to SDGs  Summary Document 

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Delivering Aid for Trade at scale and responding to the opportunities of change in the new digital era

ITC’s ‘e-Trade for Impact’

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have set an ambitious agenda that will shape global growth and development to 2030. The SDGs are the world’s shared compass to achieving inclusive development for all.

During the next 12 years, the international community needs to accelerate its common actions to meet the 2030 agenda and trade is recognised as a key element.  The International Trade Centre’s (ITC) is expanding its range of tools to contribute this.

At ITC, we are building digital into our development work: turbo-charging our reach and effectiveness with digital technologies scaling the impact of our interventions. This is ‘e-Trade for Impact.’

 

 

Moderator

Anders Aeroe, Director, Division of Enterprises and Institutions, ITC

Speakers/Panellists

Vanessa Erogbogbo, Head, Women & Trade Programme, ITC

Fabien Staechelin, Business Development Manager, ebay

James Howe, Senior Adviser, e-solutions Team, ITC

Edouard Bizumuremyi, Commercial Attaché, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Rwanda

Martin Labbé, Senior Officer, Institutional Development, ITC

Babacar Birane, Co-founder and CEO, Baobab Entrepreneurship, Senegal

 

Session's link to WSIS Action Lines

  • AL C3 logo C3. Access to information and knowledge
  • AL C4 logo C4. Capacity building
  • AL C6 logo C6. Enabling environment
  • AL C7 e-Bus logo C7. ICT Applications: E-business
  • AL C7 e-Emp logo C7. ICT Applications: E-employment

The principle linkage between the session is with C7, E-Business: initiatives within "e-Trade for Impact" are ultimately about enabling more and better trade by SMEs from developing and least developed countries.  To deliver on this vision, ITC works with stakeholders at the policy, intermedirary and enterprise level and alonsgide partners in the public and private sector.

Session's link to Sustainable Development Process

  • Goal 1: No poverty logo Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
  • Goal 5: Gender equality logo Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
  • Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth logo Goal 8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all
  • Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure logo Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
  • Goal 10: Reduced inequalities logo Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
  • Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production logo Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
  • Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals logo Goal 17: Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

On current  trends, population growth in Sub-Saharan Africa and unequal access to opportunities for Youth, Women and marginalised communities put at risk achievement of the SDGs by 2030. 

Aid for Trade initiatives address directly or contribute significantly to many SDGs. To highly just 2:

Target 8.1 Economic growth in LDCs / Target 1.1 – End extreme poverty
•“Impressive progress is expected if current trends continue, as LDCs have averaged around 5% GDP growth over the past 10 years. If this continues, LDCs will come close to the target of 7% GDP growth” (“Projecting progress: Reaching the SDGs by 2030”, Overseas Development Institute 2015)
•However, most of this growth is expected to come from Asia:  “the vast majority of people projected to be remaining in extreme poverty in 2030 will be in sub-Saharan Africa, where around one in three people will be living on less than US$1.25 a day (2005 (PPP)); the number of people living in extreme poverty in the region is actually expected to rise by 50 million (from 410 million to 460 million) between 2011 and 2030 due to population growth.

Inclusivity (SDG 8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth/ SDG 5: Gender)
•“Gender inequalities manifest themselves in each and every dimension of sustainable development” (UN Women)
•“while income inequality between countries may have been reduced, inequality within countries has risen… To reduce inequality, policies should be universal in principle paying attention to the needs of disadvantaged and marginalized populations.” (UN.org)

The achievement of both of these SDGs can be secured through initiatives that are scaled and accelerated by digital networks and tools.

Session Summary

CUsersgreenspanDocumentsOutcomesITC_sessionThursday_22nd_March.pdf CUsersgreenspanDocumentsOutcomesOutcomes_Template_WSIS_2018_-_ITC_session_4-30pm_Thursday_22nd_March.pdf

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