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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.

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Spain-IIC Haiti SME Development Fund

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.

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Mesoamerican Development Project
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The Ibero-American Programme for Science, Technology and Development (CYTED)

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.

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The empowerment of women and youth
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Spain NEPAD Fund
Strengthening institutional and gender perspective in Mercosur - Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay
Support for new income-generating ideas and support for the establishment of development centers - Cambodia, East Timorese and Vietnam