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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.

denmark

denmark

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Country Consolidation and Exit Programme – Mozambique
UNNATI-Inclusive Growth Programme - Nepal
japan

japan

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Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD)

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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denmark

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Support to African Tax Administration Forum
Support to Tax Justice Network Africa (TJN-A)
Support to OECD Base Erosion and Profit Shifting project
Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMA) Facility
Business Sector Programme Support - Phase IV - Tanzania
Denmark’s Aid for Trade support to Trade facilitation through TradeMark East Africa
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japan

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Japan Funds in Trust for Industrial Property (FIT/JP (IP))
Strengthening of FDI Promotion – Cambodia
Training Course for developing countries on competition law and policy

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.

denmark

denmark

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Green Growth and Employment Thematic Programme
U-Growth II Programme -Uganda
(ICJ/ILO/IHRB and DIHR) Programme on Responsible Business - Myanmar
Business Sector Programme Support - Phase III - Tanzania
Business Sector Programme Support - Phase IV -Tanzania
Programme d'appui à la croissance économique et l'emploi stimulé par le secteur privé PACEPEP - Mali
UNNATI-Inclusive Growth Programme - Nepal
Support to Private Sector Development - Phase II - Ghana
The Sustainable Marketplace Initiative - Myanmar
japan

japan

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One Village One Product (OVOP)
Smallholder Horticulture Empowerment Promotion (SHEP) Approach

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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denmark

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Support to LDC-fund (Expired)
Burkina Faso
Somalia Country Programme
Denmark’s Aid for Trade support to Trade facilitation through TradeMark East Africa
japan

japan

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Strengthening of the system and operation of standards and conformance – Vietnam

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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denmark

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Network of Business Membership Organizations in the Mediterranean and Gulf countries (Confederation of Danish Industry; DI)
Support to Tax Justice Network Africa (TJN-A)
Support to OECD Base Erosion and Profit Shifting project
Uganda
Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMA) Facility
japan

japan

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WTO Doha Development Agenda Global Trust Fund (DDAGTF)

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.

denmark

denmark

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Burkina Faso
Business Sector Programme Support - Phase IV - Tanzania
Denmark’s Aid for Trade support to Trade facilitation through TradeMark East Africa
indonesia

indonesia

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Flagship Programs
Quarantine Inspection for Animal products
Agriculture and Food Security
Trade and Industry