Description
The Market News Service (MNS) is a key component of ITC’s global public goods available to support and strengthen the capacities of trade support institutions (TSIs) and small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs). MNS objective is aligned to ITC corporate objectives outlined in ITC’s Strategic Plan (2010-2013) namely: 1. Strengthen the international competitiveness of enterprises through ITC training and support 2. Increase the capacity of trade support institutions (TSIs) to support businesses - MNS aims to address the lack of transparency and information gap with regard to timely and actionable business intelligence available to exporters and trade support institutions in developing coutnries. MNS capitalises on its expertise in business intelligence collection and dissemination in order to encourage price and quality competition for the benefit of all market players through the provision of sector-specific market intelligence on selected agricutlutral and industrial sectors. MNS is developing a training programme to enable TSIs to develop market information collection and management skills and improve the timely dissemination of price reports and business opportunities—customizing the information to match local realities. With regard to ITC's strategic objective to increase the capacity of trade support institutions (TSI) to support businesses, MNS’ works with TSIs as central elements of its network and key partners in MNS’ efforts to reach SMEs. Consequently, MNS collaborates with TSIs, providing on-goign acces to its publications and assisting them through tailor-made programs to develop market information collection and management skills, in order to improve the timely dissemination of price reports and business opportunities—customizing the information to match local realities.