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Market and Trade Information
Market information and trade information services are different in their focus and methods. Market information is about sub-sectors and products, while trade information focuses on the aggregate level, including data on trade flows, policies affecting trade, and trends in these. Market information is usually targeted at traders. Trade information is, broadly speaking, intended to be used by policy-makers.
United Nations Industrial Development Organization(unido)
Statistics
Global Competitive Industrial Production Index
Trade Facilitation
This category covers the development, harmonization, and implementation of the rules and procedures which govern how goods cross borders.
International Trade Centre(itc)
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.
International Trade Centre(itc)
Enterprise capabilities
The surrounding business environment
The national environment
United Nations Industrial Development Organization(unido)
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.
International Trade Centre(itc)
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.
International Trade Centre(itc)
United Nations Industrial Development Organization(unido)
Promoting ISID through Partnership Building for Trade and Investment Flows along the Maritime and Continental Silk Road (2015 – 2018)
Building Partnerships for South-South and Triangular Industrial Cooperation between China and Other Developing Countries for Technological Upgrading (2016 – 2019)
UNIDO’s annual “Belt and Road Inclusive and Sustainable City Exhibition and Dialogue”
Networks, platforms and partnerships with a focus on South-South cooperation
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.
International Trade Centre(itc)
Youth and trade: enabling young entrepreneurs to increase income and employment opportunities and expanding employment opportunities for youth in export value chains
United Nations Industrial Development Organization(unido)
Artisanal Fisheries in West Africa
PAMPAT Maroc "Projet d'Accès aux Marchés pour les produits Agroalimentaires et du Terroir"
PAMPAT Tunisie "Projet d'Accès aux Marchés pour les produits Agroalimentaires et du Terroir"
West Africa Quality System - Support for the implementation of the quality policy of ECOWAS
Nigeria: The National Quality Infrastructure Project for Nigeria
Sri Lanka: Increasing SMEs Trade Competiveness in Regional and EU Markets
Improving Competitiveness of Export-Oriented Industries in Armenia through Modernization and Market Access