In Niger, evidence from the social cash transfer programme demonstrates that the greater privacy and control of mobile transfers compared to manual cash transfers shifts intra-household decision-making in favour of women (Aker et al., Technology-enabled crowdfunding platforms allow women to access trade finance. In China, the top funded industry sectors through peer-to-peer (P2P) consumer lending are in the retail and wholesale trade sectors, and 35 per cent of the fundraisers on the P2P consumer lending platforms are female (Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance and The Australian Centre for Financial Studies, 2017). For example, through a project financed by the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF), improvements in pest management in Uganda's flower sectors helped to raise the livelihood of the majority of women workers dependent on flower exports. The ITC also launched the "SheTrades" initiative, which seeks to connect one million women entrepreneurs to markets by 2020.