Description

Over the past 10 years, FWEAN has been successfully organizing the International Women’s Trade Expo organized in Kathmandu. Giving continuity to this trend, FWEAN is organizing the 9th International Women’s Trade Expo this year from April 3^rd to 5^th 2026 (Chaitra 20^th to 22^nd 2082), Friday to Sunday at Heritage Garden, Sanepa, Lalitpur.

With an anticipated attendance of more than 50,000 visitors. FWEAN’s slogan, ‘Work Together, Win Together’, illustrates and calls for collective efforts from the local and global community. The trade expo serves as a platform to bring together influential Nepalese and International businesswomen providing ample scope for product sales, networking, and knowledge sharing.

The Expo will provide a networking forum for women-owned businesses to have constructive connections with other business cohorts and key stakeholders, including government institutions. Using its wide network, the Expo will be conducted in three phases: pre-event, main event, and post-event. The pre-event will bring together women entrepreneurs who seek to make a positive impact on their businesses. The emphasis will be on growing their business through branding and packaging training that contribute to their business and product enhancement. They will be implementing their learnings during the event.

Also, the International Women’s Trade Expo itself will serve as a platform to promote the products owned by women entrepreneurs across Nepal and strengthen the coordination and collaboration between different actors within the women entrepreneurs and their buyers. The Trade Expo has been a strategic cross-learning mechanism and information-sharing zone. The event will also include a Symposium to mark the learnings and recommendations from national and international participants. The symposium has been initiated since 2019 as the follow-up event where stakeholders, government, banks, and different personalities working with women entrepreneurs including digital marketing, online business owners, come together to discuss the issues, success stories, mitigating measures and provide recommendations based on different themes to champion women entrepreneurship in Nepal.