

Nextrade supports East African Community on enabling regional data transfers
In 2026, Nextrade is supporting the East African Community Secretariat and Partner States East African Community to develop a harmonized regional legal framework and instrument on data protection and privacy and a Mechanism for Cross-border Data Flows as a reference for EAC Partner States’ legal framework on personal data transfers.


Working with Caribbean Export to support 240 SMEs' exports through ecommerce
In 2026, Nextrade is supporting an EU-funded program with Caribbean Export, designing and implementing a comprehensive e-commerce capacity-building and onboarding initiative targeting 240 MSMEs across 15 Caribbean countries . The program combined structured training, hands-on onboarding support on global platforms such as Shopify and eBay, individualized mentoring for high-potential firms, and institutional capacity building for Business Support Organizations. As a result,


Supporting ecommerce readiness in the Caribbean with Association of Caribbean States
Nextrade is in 2026 working with partner firm OCO Global on an Inter-American Development Bank-funded project for the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) across six Caribbean and Central American countries to prepare e-commerce readiness handbooks and train 54 MSMEs across three sectors and six countries to use marketplaces. The approach begins with rigorous, data-driven firm selection and readiness assessment, using diagnostics to identify SMEs with sufficient product read


Nextrade continues supporting Visa's Economic Empowerment Institute on digital trade
Nextrade keeps working in 2023 with the Visa's VEEI to drive research to optimize digital trade policies to enable ecommerce and small...


Nextrade is proud to support the Mastercard Tourism Innovation Hub
In 2023, Nextrade Group set out to help develop and operationalize some of the initiatives of the Mastercard's new Tourism Innovation...


Nextrade enables Central Asia's digital trade with USAID and U.S. Commerce Department
Nextrade Group is growing our partnership in Central Asia's digitization with the USAID Future Growth Initiative Program and the...


Nextrade works with OCO and World Bank on developing women's ecommerce in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco
Nextrade Group continues excellent collaboration with the World Bank's WeFi program with OCO Global to enable women-led firms to gain...


Nextrade Group develops PPPs for tourism and agricultural digitization in Mexico SURGES
Nextrade is proudly partnering with USAID/Mexico’s SURGES project that aims to increase employment, sales, investment, and positive...


Developing ecommerce statistics for the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat
Nextrade Group is proud to announce it will be working in 2023 with the Pacific Island Forum Secretariat and UNCTAD in building out...


Developing World Bank's research agenda for trade in digital services
Services are increasingly deliverable digitally, opening new opportunities for developing country firms to engage in trade in tasks with...


Launching Prosper Africa Tech for Trade Alliance
Nextrade Group is proud to share the launch of the Prosper Africa Tech for Trade Alliance we formed in 2021-22 is a public-private...
How do Southern Cone firms engage in digital trade? Nextrade finds out with the IDB
Southern Cone governments have long been committed to ecommerce development as a means to promote trade, creating capacity-building...
How do APEC region SMEs leverage digitization for trade - data on >4,500 firms for UPS
Asia-Pacific economies and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have been recovering from the Covid-19 crisis over the past two years....


Gauging with Visa's Social Impact Team SMB digitization and digital policies in the Gulf region
Small and medium businesses (SMBs) across the world are experiencing the benefits of a broad-based digitization of business and the...


Analyzing West Africa's digital transformation and digital services with the World Bank
In 2022-23, Nextrade Group continued our work with the World Bank to understand the digital transformation of firms and business...



















