A/HRC/35/32 “the access point to one of the world’s largest databases on trade statistics, tariff data, foreign direct investment data and voluntary standards”. 71 The ITC portal allows these enterprises to have access to five individual tools that improve transparency through business analysis. The tools furthermore; “enable business enterprises and trade support institutions to identify export and import opportunities and compare market-access requirements that help policymakers monitor national trade performance and prepare for trade negotiations”.72 The tools centre around mapping exercise for enterprises and include a trade, market access, investment, competitiveness and standards map that allow business enterprises to view information on; trade statistics, tariffs and market requirements, foreign direct investment data, voluntary standards, public tender information, market analysis studies, capacity-building in market analysis, and trade competitiveness. The ITC tools thus provide yet another entry point to support the uptake by small and medium-sized enterprises of the Guiding Principles and should incorporate them. 61. ILO has also developed a number of business initiatives aimed at supporting small and medium-sized enterprises and entrepreneurs through training programmes, business practices and statistical data under the umbrella of the “Start and Improve Your Business Programme”. The Programme claims to be the largest global business management training programme with a focus on starting and improving businesses as a strategy for creating more and better employment for women and men. 73 Under the Programme, ILO offers a range of publications, brochures, evidence based articles and news-based resources aimed at supporting sustainable development goals by promoting: (a) business development policies that support decent job creation and entrepreneurship and encourage the growth of micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises; and (b) productive employment and decent work for all, including young people and persons with disabilities. With the 2017 revision of its Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy (see para. 19), which incorporates the Guiding Principles, ILO will play a particularly important role in supporting action on small and medium-sized enterprises that is aligned with the Guiding Principles and in providing a key reference for transnational corporations in their role to respect human rights throughout global valued chains. 62. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) through its Enterprise Development Branch, has designed a number of training programmes on policies for small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as capacity-building efforts to empower individuals from developing countries. These include the EMPRETEC programme, 74 entrepreneurship training, the Entrepreneurship Policy Framework and Implementation Guidance,75 the Business Linkage Programme, 76 and the e-Tourism Initiative.77 UNCTAD has also developed a number of transparency and accountancy programmes to help small and medium-sized enterprises, for example, on corporate responsibility reporting, and accounting. 63. Among regional organizations, the European Commission, in addition to offering specific guidance for small and medium-sized enterprises, has prepared a number of sectoral guides78 that provide direction for businesses to implement the Guiding Principles. 64. Many of the existing tools available to small and medium-sized enterprises allow them not only to analyse critically their shortcoming but also to utilize their capacitybuilding programmes. The ILO Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 16 See www.intracen.org/itc/market-info-tools/market-analysis-tools/. Ibid. See www.ilo.org/empent/areas/start-and-improve-your-business/lang--en/index.htm. See http://empretec.unctad.org/. See http://unctad.org/en/Pages/DIAE/Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurship-Policy-Framework-andImplementation-Guidance.aspx. See http://unctad.org/en/Pages/DIAE/Enterprise%20Development/Business-LinkageProgramme.aspx. See http://unctad.org/en/Docs/tdxipbd6_en.pdf. https://ec.europa.eu/anti-trafficking/publications/european-commission-sector-guides-implementingun-guiding-principles-business-and-hum-0_en.