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Global Advocacy
The global advocacy category covers services that are designed to promote the use of trade as a development tool and to encourage support for developing countries’ efforts to improve their trade capacity building. This includes analysis and dissemination of trade-related information, promoting understanding of the relationship between trade and development, and supporting policies. Some agencies provide information on and support for the interactions between their more specialized interests and trade.
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs(undesa)
United Nations Industrial Development Organization(unido)
Quality infrastructure needs assessments
Trade Standards Compliance Analysis
Industrial Development Reports
World Health Organization(who)
Legal and Regulatory Framework
Assistance under this category includes helping countries to bring their own regulations into conformity with international rules, more general help to improve their legal institutions, and training officials to deal with such rules. A number of the agencies specialise in particular areas, rather than trying to provide expertise on the legal rules in all sectors. For several, the aim is to balance trade-related obligations with other national (or international) interests.
United Nations Industrial Development Organization(unido)
Supply Capacity
In line with the trade focus of this Guide, support activities to develop supply capacity are considered to be those that aim to increase the availability of goods and services for export. There is no easy distinction between this and building more general capacity to produce, and this distinction is becoming less pertinent as borders open and competition in local markets from imports increases. Some agencies do not make this distinction in their projects.
United Nations Industrial Development Organization(unido)
Advisory services on traceability
Food hygiene management
Techno-economic assessments
Product and process design and development
Development of sectoral technology centres
AGRO processing
Innovative technologies - Montreal Protocol
Cleaner energy for industry - Phase-Out Programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean
Renewable energy for industry
Renewable energy standards
Industrial energy efficiency
Energy management systems standards
Greening existing industries
Creation of new green industries
Export consortia
Cluster development
Subcontracting and Partnership Exchange (SPX) Programme
Investment Promotion: Targeting and attracting quality FDI for development impact
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Business Partnership Programme
Industrial Upgrading and Modernization Programme (IUMP)
Compliance support infrastructure and services
Assistance in this category is closely related to that under the Legal and Regulatory Framework, but places more emphasis on building the institutions in developing countries to implement such legal frameworks, and less on the details of compliance. It is an area where the specialised agencies again have the main role
United Nations Industrial Development Organization(unido)
Development of competent authorities for fish and horticulture exports
Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI): Global Markets Capacity Building Programme
Labnetwork
Quality infrastructure role in adopting energy efficiency measures
Trade Policy Development
Agencies’ assistance to trade policy development is generally provided in four areas: design and implementation of trade policy; specific developing country issues in trade (such as commodity exports and preferences); support in trade negotiations; and assistance in managing the interactions between trade and other policies.
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs(undesa)
United Nations Industrial Development Organization(unido)
Sectoral trade development studies
Industrial policy studies
Industrial statistics
World Health Organization(who)
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 Department of Economic and Social Affairs(undesa)
United Nations Industrial Development Organization(unido)
Statistics
Global Competitive Industrial Production Index
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.