INFORMAL WORKING GROUP ON MSMES
OPEN-ENDED MEETING OF 3 OCTOBER 2025
Summary of discussions
The following
communication, dated 25 November 2025, is being circulated at the
request of the Coordinator of the Informal Working Group on MSMEs, Ambassador
Matthew Wilson (Barbados).
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Contents
1 ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA
2 WIPO ASSEMBLIES – NEW WIPO MSME
INITIATIVES. 3
3 GLOBAL SME MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE. 4
3.1 Key Outcomes. 4
3.2 Leadership Dialogue for Trade
Promotion Organizations. 5
4 2025 SMALL BUSINESS CHAMPIONS. 6
5 MC14 Preparation.. 7
5.1 Update from the Informal Working
Group on Trade and Gender 7
5.2 MSME Group Documents. 8
5.3 THEMATIC
DISCUSSIONS. 9
5.4 Informality. 9
5.4.1 Presentation by the ILO. 9
5.4.2 The Small and Medium Enterprises
development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) 9
5.5 Female
Entrepreneurship Capacity Building and Support 10
6 IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DECEMBER 2020
MSME PACKAGE. 11
6.1 Reporting by Members. 11
6.2 IADB. 12
7 STRENGTHENING ENGAGEMENT WITH THE
PRIVATE SECTOR AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS. 13
7.1 MSME Spotlight 13
7.2 OECD. 14
7.3 Universal Postal Union. 15
8 BRIEFINGS ON MSME-RELATED DISCUSSIONS
in other WTO BODIES. 15
8.1 Digital Trade Transformation Forum.. 15
8.2 Other 16
9 OTHER BUSINESS. 16
9.1 Report from the Trade4MSMEs Network
Meeting. 16
9.2 Other 16
Annex. 18
Presentation on Trade Promotion Organizations
Leaderships Dialogue – Agenda item 2.2. 18
Presentation by NetZero Pallet – Agenda item 3. 33
Presentation by Silaiwali – Agenda item 3.a. 39
Presentation by the ILO – Agenda item 5.1.1. 47
Presentation by SMEDAN – Agenda item 5.1.2. 51
Presentation by Russian Export Center – Agenda item
5.2. 63
Presentation by IADB – Agenda item 6.2. 72
Presentation by UNSHF – Agenda item 7.1. 78
Presentation by AFRIipads – Agenda item 7.1.a. 85
Presentation by OECD – Agenda item 7.2. 89
Presentation by UPU – Agenda item 7.3. 95