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Good morning everyone and welcome to this second session of the SheTrades Commonwealth virtual gathering! Kindly mute yourself and raise your hand if you want to take the floor. Many thanks for your attention.

thank you Lucie

The session on Risk management is going to take place on Thursday morning (26 November) at 10 a.m. We look forward to seeing many of you there!

Hello everyone good afternoon! Salma Begum from Shishu Polli Plus, Sreepur, Gazipur member of BANGLACRAFT, link1salma@gmail.com +8801715426682 , BANGLADESH

Welcome Salma, please if you have any questions do not hesitate to put them here!

Hallo Everyone ….I am Grace Mbugua the Chairperson Ubunifu Association handmade in Kenya of Leather, basketry, home decor , textile & apparel products.

www.ubunifuassociation.co.ke

Dear Participants, we hope that the Gathering would offer you a unique opportunity to meet and engage with the peers, to share your own experiences and to learn from theirs! To reinforce these new bonds and create new professional connections beyond the event, we will be sharing contact details of the participants through the e-booklet, specially designed for this unique event. If you would like to have your details included therein, please fill in the form here (unless you have done this before): https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=MG1Hw8N7m0-dFfRElH_0zaMI-1jvCGJAupDnEq5oMyBUM01PNDlJQUtQSjFGTjJaSFpNWlM3QlZOSC4u Thank you!

Hello from Arif Zaman from the Commonwealth Businesswomen’s Network (CBWN). We are directly recognised by 54 governments across six continents focused on encouraging, enabling and embedding women in leadership and women’s economic empowerment through work in trade, talent and training. See www.cbwn.org

Greetings from Barbados.

Dear participants, please do not hesitate to ask any questions you might have to the speakers here. Thank you so much for your presence today!

Morning all! Emmanuel A.O. of ImaxEducare and services, Nigeria. We provide educational resources and aid you to maximise your potentials. Pleased to be here, thank you.

Hi everyone. Edward here from the Uganda Small Scale Industries Association (USSIA). A national voluntary business membership organisation of industrialists engage d in value addition. We have Women and Youth desks that respectively seek to address business environment issues affecting their enterprises. Morewww.USSIA.or.ug

Dear Participants, we would also like to invite you to join the Facebook event page of the BSO Virtual Gathering here to network, connect and know more about this fascinating and enriching week! https://www.facebook.com/events/457621095227556/?active_tab=discussion

Good morning all, please let us know if you have any question!

Hello Everyone..Nice connecting with you all..I am Folasade ALFRED-AKINWOMOJU.

I am the CEO of DAVDEB FOODS NIGERIA LIMITED. An Agro-allied food Processing and packaging company. We deal in local sales of packaged foods and engage in exports activities as well. thanks

www.davdeb.org.ng. +2348102359480. info@davdeb.org.ng

All the presentations from all 6 sessions taking place this week and more will be shared in the ITC BSO Virtual Gathering e-booklet in early December 2020. Thank you very much for your patience!

Thanks for that info

Clockwise

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Counter!!!

clockwise

But how?

anti-clockwise

Anticlockwise

Anticlockwise - strange!

Oh yes its anti clockwise

Are we on slide share? Am seeing participants grid??

hi

this is Afsana from NAAWE ( Network of Africa Asia Women Entrepreneurs)

Anne - do we attach a timeframe to the indicators?

a case study for this would be great. thanks

yes a case study

Good morning from Gambia...I jined late, seems I missed the timing...its 10:10 a.m here...

will wait for the next sessions

Good morning, we are now taking a 2 minutes break, please let us know If you have more questions about what we have covered!

Great example

This is very interesting..i can see some few attempt we did in Gambia during COVID19....all prioritise change in terms of services

Questions on REACT? Let us know!

Fantastic! OREO example......

Does ITC assign/attach expert consultants for a period of time e.g 1-2 years to help with BSO strengthening/Strategy development and implementation upon request either probono or at a cost agreed upon?

This model is similar to the one we did in our ecosystem in the Gam ia , such workshop was facilitate by ITC and Nuria was in Gambia on this....good to see this again

This is all excellent - will the recordings and slides be available afterwards?

True! thanks for sharing Babucarr!

Is it possible to have access to this recording afterwards?

Yes, we will send you the materials after

Please do not hesitate to ask questions!

The recording will be available at the end of the day here https://shetradescommonwealth.converve.io/STCVirtualGathering.html

All the presentations from all 6 sessions taking place this week and more will be shared in the ITC BSO Virtual Gathering e-booklet in early December 2020.

Thanks Leonila..

The PPTs and other materials will be made available as a part of e-booklet in early December

if I am in TLL

is it really need to be improved

Excellent discussion! Is TLT like motivational theory Z.

To ITC: it would be useful to do a regional version of this course which the Commonwealth Businesswomen’s Network would be delighted to work with the UK Govt. and ITC and other BSOs in organsaiing?ation and Community Interest Company directly recognised by 54 governments across six continents committed to advancing UN Sustainable Development Goal 5 and the Commonwealth Charter focused on encouraging, enabling and embedding women in leadership and women’s economic empowerment through work in trade, talent and training.

Thank you, excellent.

To ITC: it would be useful to do a regional version of this course which the Commonwealth Businesswomen’s Network would be delighted to work with the UK Govt. and ITC and other BSOs in organising - is this possible?

What advise would you give to a voluntary BSO that is almost entirely dependent on donor support with little own income. Adapting to new trends like digitalisation is expensive for us? Which strategies would work?

Benefit of one-pager is clear - versus long strategic document, which we probably don't look at very often!

Thank you for the insight in Bangladesh. Could you kindly clarify your priority sectors again? How does Apparel, Garments and Textiles (T and A) fit in: if it does? Not sure if I heard T and A ?

Please do not hesitate to ask more questions to the speakers and the BSO participants! You could put them down here.

It is great to listening to other BSO and learning the experiences are similar as with our membership. I am Grace from Ubunifu association and we explored the most pressing issues from the membership and the key areas were to explore training to enhance capacity. One that was prioritized was how best to utilize the digital space and so we had a series of trainings. The companies were also able to engage in a partners WYLDE International digital platform to profile them where we managed to do publicity of the different companies.

The trainings by Commonwealth SHE Trades has been extremely resourceful, however most of our male membership feel a bit lost in these crisis season.

Caroline Gathii-Thanks for your very valuable contribution.

Thank you Carol for your inspirational sharing

Can anyone speak to working on the BSO team's mental health etc. re COVID? What if you notice that your team itself is having challenges re COVID (I missed yesterday's session - not sure if this was covered already)

Specific to BSO staff vs members

Great contributions form All. Please help identify who was the 2nd speaker since our connection broke off whilst they were starting ?

The one after the Bangladesh speaker please

- Ms. Caroline Gathii, President, OWIT Nairobi- Ms. Blanca Castro, Chapters Manager, IWCA Global- Ms. Farzana Khan, General Manager, SME Foundation Bangladesh

BSO Networking Approach has also worked well for us at AWEP...

We will have another session today

Thank you ...

Thank you everyone for your participation and engagement today!

Thank you all

OWIT Nigeria looks forward to the BSO networking

from 14:00 - 15:30 CET

thanks you

Join us this afternoon for a Textile and Apparel focus session “The new textiles and apparel market: digital and virtual business” starting at 2 pm (CET).

Thank you Anne and Nuria

Thank You All!

The Virtual Gathering will also continue tomorrow with a new session on e-commerce: “How BSOs can assist small firms to address opportunities and barriers for e-commerce”. We are looking forward to your participation!

https://www.tisibenchmarking.org/benchmarkredesign/

Thank you very interesting session