Search the Resource Guide
Trade Facilitation
This category covers the development, harmonization, and implementation of the rules and procedures which govern how goods cross borders.
African Development Bank(afdb)
E-commerce Services & Digital Economy
This category includes capacity building activities directed to development of e-commerce from the perspective of the physical and regulatory factors, for example reducing barriers to trade across distance via electronic marketplaces, development of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) infrastructure, and regulatory frameworks.
Asian Development Bank(adb)
Loan approved in 2015 for a telecommunications project – Myanmar
Loan for medium- and long-term financing to micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises - Kyrgyz Republic
Physical Trade Infrastructure
Like Supply Capacity, this is a category where the boundary between trade support and more general support to production or development is not clearly defined. Some agencies try to allocate spending on individual projects partially to trade and partially to other purposes; others focus on the principal purpose of a project or a type of activity.
Asian Development Bank(adb)
African Development Bank(afdb)
Information and communication technology (ICT)
NEPAD-Infrastructure Project Preparation Facility (IPPF)
Trade-Related Financial Services
Trade finance is one of the areas where exporters from developing countries are most disadvantaged compared to those from developed countries because selling at a distance to purchasers who are not directly known within the country requires special skills and risk assessment from banks. Only when exports reach a sufficiently high level is it profitable for banks in a country to acquire these skills, so exporters, particularly SMEs, are hampered by difficulty in accessing export finance. Therefore both the cost and the availability of appropriate finance are problems. Some agencies offer support to build national capacity, while others try to fill the gap until such capacity is available.
Asian Development Bank(adb)
Loans and guarantees
B Loan (Complementary Financing Scheme)
Trade Finance Program (TFP)
African Development Bank(afdb)
South-South and Triangular Cooperation
South-South cooperation is the process whereby two or more developing countries pursue their individual and/or shared national capacity development objectives through exchanges of knowledge, skills, resources and technical know-how, and through regional and interregional collective actions, including partnerships involving Governments, regional organizations, civil society, academia and the private sector, for their individual and/or mutual benefit within and across regions.
Triangular Cooperation is a southern-driven partnership between two or more developing countries, supported by a developed country or multilateral organization(s), to implement development cooperation programmes and projects.
Asian Development Bank(adb)
The Asia-Pacific Trade Facilitation Forum (APTFF)
The SASEC Information Highway project
A project to identify and promote regional supply chains
Communities of Practice (COP) models such as the Capacity Development for Development Effectiveness initiative
ADB and IDB joint South-South cooperation initiative
African Development Bank(afdb)
Gender Mainstreaming, Employment and Youth
The category intends to report on activities to support women's economic empowerment, employment and activities targeted at the youth.
Asian Development Bank(adb)
Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Sector Development Program - Bhutan
Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project - Bangladesh
Other Trade-Related Activities
Other types of assistance, although some of them may not be specifically targeted at trade, may be intended to affect trade.