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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 Maritime Organization(imo)
United Nations Environment Programme(unep)
Legal and Regulatory Frameworks in Green Markets and Global Value Chains
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 HUMAN SETTLEMENTS PROGRAMME (un-habitat)
United Nations Environment Programme(unep)
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 Environment Programme(unep)
Environmental Goods Agreement
Providing Information and Analysis on Voluntary Sustainability Standards
Trade Facilitation
This category covers the development, harmonization, and implementation of the rules and procedures which govern how goods cross borders.
International Maritime Organization(imo)
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 Maritime Organization(imo)
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 Maritime Organization(imo)
United Nations Environment Programme(unep)
South-South Trade in Renewable Energy
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 Maritime Organization(imo)
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.
United Nations Environment Programme(unep)
Alternative Models of Trade
Environmental Goods Trade Flow Mapping