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International award to Swedish entrepreneurs

IWEC 2016 international entrepreneurship award to Hälsingestintan and Löwengrip Care&Color. Three successful Swedish business women are among the 42 IWEC awardees from 21 countries. IWEC, International Women’s Entrepreneurial Challenge, is an international nonprofit organization, promoting women in international business. Britt-Marie Stegs changed the industry of meat production through her company Hälsingestintan, by introducing ethical meat production, […]

Meet Ethiopian producers of coffee, lifestyle products and more

Women’s Economic Empowerment Meet the delegation of business women from Ethiopia headed by the Ethiopian First Lady, H.E. Roman Tesfaye. Tuesday, October 18, 9:00-11:00 Chamber Trade Sweden, Klarabergsviadukten 63 at United Spaces With opportunities for B2B after the seminarWelcome to a morning seminar on doing business with Ethiopia. Opening speaker will be Ethiopia’s First Lady, […]

Fighting poverty with entrepreneurship and trade! CTS’s seminar in Almedalen on July 5

Welcome to our seminars in Visby, Sweden, on July 5. Be inspired by business initiatives which make a difference and give bang for the buck. Fighting poverty with entrepreneurship and trade! Business plays a key role for fighting poverty in developing countries and governments should put higher priority on strengthening the private sector. Come and be […]

Somali Business women putting business first!

Chamber Trade Sweden gathered top Somali business women in Nairobi on February 7-11, to meet with our partners East African Women in Agribusiness Network to discuss potential cooperation. The meeting showed how businesswomen put business first! The meeting was supported by Sida and the Swedish Embassy in Nairobi. Several of the Somali business women which joined […]

Leadership Day in East Africa

AWAN leaders (African Women in Agribusiness Network) from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda met in Nairobi, Kenya, on November 11th to reach their full potential. The training was to encourage and empower the leaders of the regional mentorship programmes to take the AWAN mentorship programmes to the next level. The group went through self-awareness, leadership […]

Ethiopia Launches Leadership Mentorship

The Addis Ababa Chamber of Commerce (AACCSA) is the eighth CTS partner to launch a Leadership Mentorship program for its member companies as part of the CTS Chamber Academy. One target group for the mentees participating is entrepreneurs with at least 5 years of business experience, that have a business plan and want to grow […]

Women, Leadership and International Business drawing a full house in West Sweden

On May 19th Chamber Trade Sweden together with the West Sweden Chamber of Commerce held an “Eat and Talk” lunch focusing on Women, Leadership and International Business. With guests coming in to share their story from Iraq, Kenya and Indonesia and more than 50 business women from western Sweden which had come to listen, learn […]

News from our East African partners

Take the opportunity to learn more about what our East African partners – African Women in Agribusiness Network, AWAN- are up to. Find their latest newsletter here – Newsletter Qtr 1 2015 Sofie Wikander, Programme Manager sofie.wikander@chambertrade.se

Zimbabwean Women in Agribusiness Stakeholder Meeting

CTS partner ZNCC are developing a dialogue on agribusiness and women and on June 3rd they hosted a stakeholder meeting with women in agribusiness. ZNCC gathered 150 representatives from organizations to farmers and entrepreneurs at Rainbow Towers in Harare to discuss, share and be informed about what is happening and what needs to happen for […]

AWAN-ZIM – gathering women entrepreneurs in a network for greater strength

Agribusiness is the mainstay of Africa and where a lot of women entrepreneurs are found– which is the reasons that it is a focus sector for the Chamber Academy programme of CTS. One of the other pillars within this programme is networking and networks. CTS are always striving to increase the network – for our […]