ITC SME Trade Academy
SME courses covering trade, exports, entrepreneurship and related business topics.
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Is this worth your time?
Use this to solve a defined trade-readiness gap before chasing buyers or export finance. A course is useful when it produces a better market, logistics or sustainability decision for your business.
Ubunifu editorial assessment, not an organiser eligibility decision.A stronger fit when...
Entrepreneurs and small-business teams seeking trade-related learning. ITC offers free online learning, including environmental sustainability and international transport topics; course availability and format vary.
Pause or look elsewhere when...
An enterprise expecting a guaranteed buyer, export contract, shipping subsidy or licence. A course certificate does not establish that a product meets a destination market's regulatory requirements.
What the support actually means
Courses provide structured material and, where their completion conditions are met, electronic certificates. Some are scheduled and others self-paced. Select a specific course rather than assuming the whole catalogue has one intake or certificate policy.
Costs and commitments: Free SME courses.
Your costs, time and commitments
The reviewed examples are free. Duration, language, assessments and start dates are course-specific. Include time to apply the material to your product and budget your own connectivity.
How selection or access works
Ordinary course enrolment is different from a funding selection process. Check the chosen course's prerequisites and availability; the catalogue itself is not an award application.
Preparation and application steps
Get these ready first
Preparation advice; the organiser determines mandatory documents.
- Choose one question: target-market selection, export costing, logistics or sustainability.
- Collect basic product, customer and supply-chain information to use in the exercises.
- Check your schedule against any fixed start and completion dates.
Your next steps
- Find a relevant course on the official ITC learning platform.
- Read its syllabus, language and certificate conditions before enrolling.
- Create one practical output, such as a transport-cost checklist, and validate it before commercial use.
Questions to confirm and guide sources
Questions to confirm before committing
- The exact course's current intake, workload and assessment requirements.
- Any separate certification, professional qualification or paid follow-on programme; do not assume it is included.
Sources behind this decision guide
Reviewed 2026-11-05. Guidance is not a guarantee that an application window remains open.
Full programme facts and official sources
Who this is for
SMEs and learners, especially in developing countries; relevant to Kenyan enterprises.
- Stage
- Early and growth enterprise
- Sector
- Trade and export development
- Support type
- Course-specific training
- Costs and commitments
- Free SME courses.
- Deadline
- Course-specific enrolment; no single closing date.
- As published
- Course-specific enrolment; no single closing date.
- Format
- Online; timing varies by course.
- Event dates
- Course-specific; check the chosen intake.
- Travel and visa support
- Not applicable.
- Documents and preparation
- Account and any course-specific prerequisites shown in the catalogue.
- How to apply
- Visit the course catalogue and choose a currently available intake.
- Applicant route
- Select a currently available course intake from the official catalogue.
Official sources
ITC official virtual learning Source checked 2026-11-05
Kenya export-promotion agency course information Source checked 2026-11-05
Check before committing
This is a learning platform, not one permanently open cohort or cash grant.
Listing, saving and community ratings do not verify the organiser, guarantee eligibility or promise selection. Check the official terms before committing time or money.