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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.
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.
belgium
european commission
sweden
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.
belgium
Agriculture support programme
Producer Financial Support Programme
Supply Chain and Logistics Development Programme (SCLP) – SADC
Development of responsible community-owned tourism opportunities in the Enduimet Wildlife Management Area
european commission
sweden
ITC/Ukraine
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
european commission
Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT)
sweden
IFOAM Organic Trade and Value Chain Development in East Africa
Agricultural Market Activity AMA-FARMA II
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.
belgium
european commission
Multilateral Trading System Programme (MTS)
sweden
PSD-Hub in Ethiopia
Trade Policy Training Centre in Africa (Trapca)
Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa (Tralac)
WTO Doha Development Agenda Global Trust Fund (DDAGTF
Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF)
Trade Academy
The MENA-OECD Competitiveness Programme