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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.
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TRADE POLICY DEVELOPMENT
LEGAL AND REGULATORY FRAMEWORK
TRADE RELATED FINANCIAL SERVICES
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.
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Evaluation of biosafety and food security for genetically modified organisms – Argentina / Thailand
Course on territorial planning in Uruguay – Argentina / Uruguay
Reinforce capacities and experience sharing in the agriculture, aquaculture and fisheries sector - Argentina/Mexico
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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.
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Cooperation on bovine and porcine cloning in Vietnam – Argentina / Vietnam
Cooperation on integrated pest management and application of GIS for pest management – Argentina / Vietnam.
Capacity building in pest and pesticide management to ensure food security and safety in Philippines – Argentina / Philippines
Improvement of livestock production in Cambodia – Argentina / Cambodia
Enhance SPS capacity, Trans boundary disease prevention and promote safety trade in Cambodia – Argentina / Cambodia
Stregthening capacity building for the FMD control in Cambodia – Argentina / Cambodia
Institutional reinforcement and capacity building for territorial planning in Timor Leste – Argentina / Timor Leste
Technology for milk production and for the manufacturing dairy products – Argentina / Brasil
Appropriate technologies for the production of sunflower, cassava and their derivatives of family farming – Argentina / Brasil
Support to the leather sector – Argentina / Brazil
Strengthen of Textile Department and Textile Industry - Argentina / Uruguay
Capacity Building for prevention and gradually eradication of FMD – Argentina / Ecuador
Development and strengthening of milk production in Ecuador – Argentina / Ecuador
Implementation of a primary food processing safety system – Argentina / Perú
Strengthening competencies of SENATI machine and tool trainers in Lima and the Southern Macroregion of Peru – Argentina/ Peru
Development of native plant varieties with ornamental potential – Argentina / Peru
Implementation and adjustment of narrow-furrow technology in cotton cultivation – Argentina / Colombia
Production and evaluation of silvopastoral systems and tropical fodder – Argentina / Colombia
Exchange of research and teaching experiences – Argentina / Mexico
Strengthening cooperation on good manufacturing and livestock practices, biosafety and passive surveillance for Avian Influenza – Argentina / Mexico
Strengthening the agrifood chains in Honduras - Argentina / Honduras
Validate varieties with resistance to pests and diseases – Argentina / Honduras
Characterization of metabolites of sugarcane inducing plant defense – Argentina / Cuba
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
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Research and application of storage techniques for harvested agricultural produce – Argentina / Vietnam
Training on research collaboration of RNAi or related techniques on plant biotechnology – Argentina / Vietnam
Training in the use of RNAI and associated techniques in Plant Biotechnology – Argentina / Tailandia
Improvement of livestock production in Laos – Argentina / Laos
Strengthening analytical capacities in sanitary and phytosanitary measures (SPS Plant quarantine) - Argentina / Cambodia
Development of a food for mass consumption with oil rich in microencapsulated omega-3 – Argentina / Chile
Technical development and dissemination of good cattle practices – Argentina / Ecuador
Development of wind power generation – Argentina / Guatemala
Development of agglomerate boards based on sugarcane bagasse and soy protein – Argentina / Cuba
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.
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Credit Management Programme in Ecuador – Argentina / Ecuador
Consolidation of Apiculture as a Tool for Economic Development in Costa Rica – Argentina / Costa Rica
Trade promotion capacity building
This category includes both direct support to exporters and the building of institutions in-country which will provide such support. It is different from many of the other categories in its direct relationship to the private sector.
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Improving the sustainability and inclusiveness of the Ethiopian coffee value chain through private and public partnership - Ethiopia
Technical assistance programme for the improvement of leather industry in Ethiopia – second phase - Ethiopia
Improving supply of safe and quality livestock and meat exported from Horn of Africa to the Middle East and Gulf countries- Ethiopia
UNIDO “From cotton seeds to clothing: enhancing the sustainability, inclusiveness and value addition of the cotton value chain in Egypt” (750’000 Euros)
CHIEAM “Master Plan for the Sustainable Development of the Lebanese Coast” (490’531 Euros)
CHIEAM “Strengthening and promotion of the quality olive oil sector in Lebanon - The oil of Lebanon III” (1’000’000 Euros)
UNIDO “Supporting the development of selected agro-food value chains” (500’000 Euros)
ILO “Improved and market-based provision of vocational training for Lebanese and refugees” (500’000 Euros)
Capacity building to the ODS (Office Dévéloppement Sud) for investment promotion, technological upgrading and trade capacity of South Tunisian SMEs – Tunisia
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.
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Strengthening the Pharmacopoeias of Brazil and Argentina and their National Control Laboratories to establish a Regional Pharmacopoeia – Argentina / Brasil
Exchange of research, teaching and learning experience in bioconservation strategies to improve sanitary quality and availability of meat and meat products – Argentina / Mexico
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.
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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.