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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.

unido

United Nations Industrial Development Organization(unido)

Summary of activities included in this category
Cost-benefit analysis for conformity assessment infrastructure and services
Quality infrastructure needs assessments
Trade Standards Compliance Analysis
Industrial Development Reports

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

unido

United Nations Industrial Development Organization(unido)

Summary of activities included in this category
Quality Infrastructure
Development of competent authorities for fish and horticulture exports
Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI): Global Markets Capacity Building Programme
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Quality infrastructure role in adopting energy efficiency measures