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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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Summary of activities included in this category
AfT monitoring and awareness building
WTO Global Aid for Trade Review

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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Summary of activities included in this category
Cooperation to strengthen strategies and implementation of FMD control and eradication program – Argentina / Thailand
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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united kingdom

Summary of activities included in this category
Regional harmonization of trade regulation
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ASEAN-US Technical Assistance and Training Facility ADVANCE IQC Task Order 1

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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argentina

Summary of activities included in this category
Building capacities for increase soybean production by biotechniques and germplasm in Vietnam – Argentina / Vietnam
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
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united kingdom

Summary of activities included in this category
Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF)
Making Markets Work Better for the Poor (M4P)
Food and Retail Industry Challenge Fund (FRICH)
ITC Women and Trade
united states of america

united states of america

Summary of activities included in this category
African Development Foundation/Trade and Investment Programme
Bolivian Productivity and Competitiveness Project (BPC Project)
Growth with Equity in Mindanao-3 (GEM-3) Programme
Integrated Initiatives for Economic Growth in Mali (IICEM)
The Competitiveness and Trade Expansion Programme
Trade Accession and Facilitation for Afghanistan
Trade Development for Small and Medium Enterprises (formerly known as Trade and Innovation)
USAID Agribusiness Project

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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argentina

Summary of activities included in this category
Evaluation, monitoring and risk reduction planning of radioactive waste – Argentina / Ecuador
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
united states of america

united states of america

Summary of activities included in this category
AGCI - Infrastructure - IPR Capacity Building Technical Assistance for sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
Azerbaijan Competitiveness and Trade (ACT)
AGOA Sanitary and Phytosanitary Capacity Building Program-AGCI
CODEX Outreach Capacity Building Programme
Enforcement Study Tour
Enhance Ability of Exporters to Meet Sanitary and Phytosanitary Requirements (Central America)
9th Interpol Intellectual Property Crime Training Seminar
Maximizing Agricultural Revenue through Knowledge Enterprise Development and Trade
Poverty Reduction by Increasing the Competitiveness of Enterprises (PRICE)

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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argentina

Summary of activities included in this category
Strengthening Social Economy Tools in Ecuador – Argentina / Ecuador
Credit Management Programme in Ecuador – Argentina / Ecuador
Consolidation of Apiculture as a Tool for Economic Development in Costa Rica – Argentina / Costa Rica
united kingdom

united kingdom

Summary of activities included in this category
Support for negotiations of Economic Partnership Agreements
Multi-donor Trust Fund – TD2
ITC Non-Tariff Measures
Enhanced Integrated Framework
Trade Advocacy Fund (TAF)
Caribbean Aid for Trade and Regional Integration Trust Fund (CARTFund)
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united states of america

Summary of activities included in this category
Trade capacity building projects in more than 129 developing countries