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As #COP27 kicked off this week, let's make sure that LDCs' climate change adaptation & mitigation needs are adequately funded💰 In this #Trade4Dev news article, EIF's Ratnakar Adhikari focuses on leveraging #Aid4Trade to mobilize more climate funding for LDCs👉 trade4devnews.enhancedif.org/en/op-ed/aid-t…

Happening now! ⁦Enhanced Integrated Framework⁩ & ⁦United Nations ESCAP⁩ joint initiative 2 build #e-Commerce capacity 4 #SouthAsian #women #entrepreneurs trained over 2K women - 4X more than target. ⁦WTO⁩ ⁦UN Trade and Development⁩ ⁦Dr. Shankar P Sharma⁩ ⁦Dr. Rajan Sudesh Ratna⁩ ⁦Hang Tran⁩

⁦UN Development⁩ @QFFD event on #innovation #digitalization at #LDC5. My key message: #Ecommerce offers great opportunities for #women #entrepreneurs. Need 2 scale up successful interventions by broadening and deepening them ⁦Enhanced Integrated Framework⁩ ⁦WTO⁩ ⁦⁦UNESCAP SSWA⁩

Missed Ratnakar Adhikari talk about how to leverage #Aid4Trade to mobilise public & private financing for solar? ☀️ 💡Key takeaways: ✅Strengthen regulations ✅Targeted capacity building for IPA ✅Use AfT to mobilize public finance, & crowd in private investment including FDI #LDC5

Delighted2join ⁦UNCTADinvestment⁩ ⁦UN-OHRLLS⁩ ⁦⁦International Labour Organization⁩ ⁦WAIPA⁩ ⁦UNIDO⁩ discussing how2 build #investment promotion capacity 2 advance #SDGs in #LDCs #LDC5 ⁦Enhanced Integrated Framework⁩ ⁦WTO⁩ ⁦Annette Mutaawe Ssemuwemba⁩ ⁦Hang Tran⁩ ⁦Simon Hess⁩

Now at #LDC5 WTO⁩ ⁦UN Trade and Development⁩ event on #LDCs trade priorities for the next decade, discussing: ✅ Diversifying exports ✅ Value addition ✅ Building productive capacity ✅ Digital trade ✅ Green trade ✅ Aid4trade ✅ Trade facilitation ✅ Resilience building

On this #InternationalWomensDay, Shamika Sirimanne & Ratnakar Adhikari look into how to unlock women’s potential in the digital economy👩‍💻 💡Hint: It requires a multifaceted approach, necessitating collaboration among governments, businesses and civil society: weforum.org/agenda/2023/03…

Digital entrepreneurship can be a powerful avenue for women’s inclusion in the digital economy. #DigitALL On #IWD2023, UN Trade and Development Director Shamika Sirimanne & Enhanced Integrated Framework Executive Director Ratnakar Adhikari address the challenges and recommend ways forward. 👩🏾‍💻weforum.org/agenda/2023/03…

Bringing the voices of women who are active players in the digital economy to the policy-making table is essential. #IWD2023 #DigitALL #womenempowement

Women face constraints to become successful digital entrepreneurs, such as the lack of reliable internet access & basic digital literacy. Discover how to tackle these issues with UN Trade and Development’s director Shamika N. Sirimanne & Enhanced Integrated Framework’ director Ratnakar Adhikari. bit.ly/3mueJqR

Check out this insightful op-ed by Shamika Sirimanne, Director of UN Trade and Development 's Division on Technology & Logistics, and Ratnakar Adhikari (Ratnakar Adhikari), Executive Director of the Enhanced Integrated Framework, on unlocking women's potential in the digital economy👩‍💻🌐. #WHM2023 unctad.org/news/how-unloc…

📢 Happening now: model WTO closing panel discussion! 🗣️ EIF's Ratnakar Adhikari joining the conversation on how trade can play a major role in supporting inclusivity by integrating LDCs into global trade.

EIF's Ratnakar Adhikari discussing LDC's smooth graduation at the #EUNepalBusinessForum What can be done? ✅Reduce trade cost ✅Negotiate trade deals with existing/new preference-providing countries ✅Ramp up resource mobilization efforts on all fronts 📺 eunepalbusinessforum.com/speakers/

Partnership with 木子（2号机） has achieved commendable results: 👉 $41 million worth of exports 👉 over 34,000 women trained in cooperatives & business development 👉 505 cooperatives trained on value chain practices 👉 44 warehouses constructed for storing shea kernels #Shea2023

Leadership panel discussing: poly-crisis, trade and net zero at #TXFGlobal2023. Despite several challenges, many LDCs have not only made a commitment to achieve net zero by 2050; but are also implementing policies and actions to meet the target 💬 Ratnakar Adhikari

Cambodia 🇰🇭 ✅Revised its investment law, to improve investment climate and provide incentives for green energy and technology. ✅Management of natural resources for more than 3M hectares of forest, leading to an estimated reduction of 25M MT of greenhouse gasses.

Why foreign direct investment is key to Africa's sustainable recovery. Enhanced Integrated Framework Ratnakar Adhikari wef.ch/388YaGB rt World Economic Forum

🗣️ Conversation with WTO DDG Xiangchen Zhang on LDCs and the multilateral trading system. It is always encouraging to see the commitment by partners towards ensuring that greater integration of LDCs into the multilateral trading system is achieved 💬 Ratnakar Adhikari

🌟Live! Ratnakar Adhikari at Centre for WTO Studies (CWS)'s training on Bhutan's WTO accession, highlighting the transformative power of #WTOAccession in policy lock-in, FDI attraction and global market access. The EIF has been proud to support WTO accession process in several LDCs, including Bhutan🌏