Summary: The WTPO Awards 2024
Trade promotion organizations (TPOs) participate in the WTPO Awards to share innovative practices with peers from around the world. ITC announced the winners on 1 October.
Anne Chappaz, Chief Institutions and Ecosystems section at ITC, introduces the finalists a day before the winners are announced.
Dorothy Tembo, ITC’s Deputy Executive Director, congratulates the winners.
The awards are open to all national trade promotion organizations. They celebrate TPO initiatives that demonstrate outstanding innovative and effective practices in export development programmes.
The awards are open to all national trade promotion organizations. They celebrate TPO initiatives that demonstrate outstanding innovative and effective practices in export development programmes.
Applications were received in three categories:
Best use of partnerships
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Best use of information technology
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Best initiative to ensure that trade is inclusive and sustainable
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The 2024 winners
France
Best use of partnerships
Business France
Switzerland
Best use of information technology
Switzerland Global Enterprise
Brazil
Best initiative to ensure that trade is inclusive and sustainable
ApexBrasil
Runner up awards
Costa Rica
Best use of partnerships
Costa Rican Foreign Trade Promotion Agency
Dominican Republic
Best use of information technology
Export and Investment Center of the Dominican Republic
Namibia
Best initiative to ensure that trade is inclusive and sustainable
Namibia Investment Promotion and Development Board