Gender and Trade

The Trade, Gender and Development Programme assists member countries in enhancing their understanding of the links between trade and gender, in conducting gender impact analyses of trade policies and agreements, as well as in the formulation and implementation of gender-sensitive trade policies through its many activities including research and analysis, technical cooperation and intergovernmental dialogues.

Analysis-Based Technical Cooperation

Since 2010, the Trade, Gender and Development Programme has worked with developing and least developed countries to analyze the impacts of trade and trade policy on gender equality and women's well-being; to provide technical assistance to raise policymakers' awareness of the gender ramifications of trade; and to support them in the formulation of gender-responsive trade policies.

Trade and Gender in the Horticulture and Tourism sectors of Myanmar

Trade and Gender in the Pacific Island Countries under the PACER Plus Agreement

Women in Informal Cross-border Trade

Trade and Gender in the East African Community

E-learning Courses

Looking at Trade Policy through a Gender Lens

News

01 April 2020COVID-19 requires gender-equal responses to save economies

Written by
Isabelle Durant, Deputy Secretary-General, and Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Director, Division on International Trade and Commodities, UNCTAD

23 March 2020Online course on trade and gender keeps doors of learning open

COVID-19 has not held back participants from 68 countries from gaining new skills on developing gender-responsive trade policies.

20 December 2019Policy to help African women benefit from cross-border trade endorsed

African women engaging in informal and small-scale cross-border trade stand to benefit from policy suggestions emanating from UNCTAD's Borderline project.

Videos

Publications

Comparing Global Gender Inequality Indices: Where is Trade? - UNCTAD Research Paper No. 39 (UNCTAD/SER.RP/2019/11)

19 Dec 2019, 521.0 KB

Gender-sensitive policy recommendations to support women cross-border traders in Malawi, the United Republic of Tanzania and Zambia (UNCTAD/DITC/INF/2019/1)

05 Dec 2019, 3691.8 KB

International Trade, Transparency, and Gender Equality: The Case of the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER) Plus (UNCTAD/DITC/2019/3)

29 Jul 2019, 1433.2 KB

Trade and Gender Nexus in the Context of Regional Integration - A Comparative Assessment of the East African Community (EAC) and the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) (UNCTAD/DITC/2019/2)

15 Apr 2019, 18946.1 KB

Making Trade Policies Gender-Responsive: Data Requirements, Methodological Developments and Challenges (UNCTAD/DITC/2019/1)

08 Mar 2019, 2312.3 KB

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Events and Meetings

Start Date	Title	Location	Country
03 Mar 2020	Celebrating International Women's Day 2020 - Influencing the negotiation table	Geneva	Switzerland
04-05 Dec 2019	Regional workshop on Informal cross-border trade for empowerment of women, economic development and regional integration in Eastern and Southern Africa	Dar Es Salaam	United Republic of Tanzania
04 Jul 2019	WTO A4T Side Event: Women’s enhanced participation in trade through technological upgrading in agriculture	Geneva	Switzerland
20 May-14 Jul 2019	UNCTAD online course on Trade and Gender for members states of COMESA and COMESA-based institutions (English and French)

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