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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)
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.
INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION(icao)
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.
INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION(icao)
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs(undesa)
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)
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 CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION(icao)
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs(undesa)
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.
INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION(icao)
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.
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs(undesa)
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 CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION(icao)
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.
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