How and in what areas UNCTAD can support DTIS Action Matrix implementation

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How and in what areas UNCTAD can support DTIS
Action Matrix implementation?

• Masoumeh Sahami
• EIF Focal Points Global Workshop Geneva, 10 July
  2009

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UNCTADs Main Goals

• To promote economic development and poverty
  reduction in developing countries, and
  particularly, the LDCs
• To contribute to the progressive and beneficial
  integration in the global economy,
• Particularly through
• National policies and international support
  measures complemented with capacity building
  technical assistance which build productive
  capacities.

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UNCTAD
Inter-governmental Service Consensus building
Capacity Building Technical Assistance
Research Policy Analysis LDC Report, Africa
Report
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Trade Related Technical Assistance

• Objectives

Enhance the endogenous capacity of beneficiary
countries to set and implement their own
development strategies, as well as to emphasize
the development of their human, institutional,
productive and export capacities
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UNCTADs TRTA

• Main forms of delivery
• Policy and advisory services
• Training courses, seminars, workshops
• Computer-based technical Products
• Supply of trade and investment-related data

• The Focus
• Capacity building for policy ownership LDC
  policy analysis research dissemination
• International trade in goods and services and
  commodities
• Investment and Enterprise Development
• Trade Logistics and Technology

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Capacity building for policy ownership

• Poverty is severe and all-pervasive in most LDCs,
  LDC Report 2002
• Trade liberalization alone is insufficient - What
  is needed is an inclusive form of growth that
  requires not simply exports expansion but also an
  economy-wide expansion of income earning
  opportunities. LDC Report 2004
• the basic cause of persistent mass poverty in the
  LDCs is widespread unemployment, underemployment
  and low labour productivity LDC Report 2006
• to escape the current trap of poverty,
  underdevelopment and marginalization, need to
  narrow the LDCs' technology gap with the rest of
  the world and increase the knowledge intensity of
  their economies. LDC Report 2007
• to build economic resilience, need to improve
  agricultural productivity and diversify 6 to
  create non-agricultural employment opportunities.
  LDC Report 2008

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International trade in goods, services and
commodities

• Specifically
• Trade Analysis Capacities Information Systems
• Capacity Building on Trade Negotiations and
  Commercial Diplomacy
• Competition Policy and Consumer Protection
• Trade, Environment and Development

• Help formulate policies
• Develop human, institutional, regulatory
  capacities and know-how to negotiate,
• produce, trade and compete locally and
  globally.

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Investment and Enterprise Development

• Investment policies and investment promotions
• International Investment Agreements
• Investment Policy Reviews
• Investment Facilitation
• Capacity building in FDI statistics
• i-portals plus including investment guides
• 2) Enterprise Development
• EMPRETEC programme promotes entrepreneurial
  skills and helps promising entrepreneurs in
  putting their ideas into action and fostering
  businesses.
• E-tourism Currently benefits 5 LDCs Benin,
  Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali and Mauritania

• UNCTAD's objective is to assist all developing
  countries in designing and implementing active
  policies to boost productive capacities and
  international competitiveness. Particular
  attention is given to LDCs.

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Trade Logistics and Technology

• Trade logistics
• Training on transport and trade facilitation
• To improve the performance of transport operators
  and auxiliary services
• To set up the necessary institutional and
  operational environment for the introduction of
  multimodal transport
• Advance Cargo Information System (ACIS)
• To increase transparency and efficiency in the
  transport sector by providing operational
  information to stakeholders
• Automated System for Customs Data (ASYCUDA)
• To facilitate trade by speeding up the clearance
  process through the use of information technology
  and the reduction and simplification of customs
  documentation and procedures

• ASYCUDA
• In 2009 almost 90 operational projects
• The ASYCUDA programme remains the largest
  technical cooperation programme within UNCTAD,
  encompassing over 80 countries and 4 regional
  projects

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Trade Logistics and Technology

• Trainings
• Training Trainers TrainForTrade Programme
• Local ownership of training activities,
  generation of local knowledge, human and
  institution building
• Trainings programmes
• - The Virtual Institute Target Academics
  Policy Makers
• - The Training Course on Key Issues on the
  International Economic Agenda Policy makers
• Science and Technology
• To enhance the scientific and technological
  capabilities of developing countries and to
  facilitate their access to new technologies
• Network of Centres of Excellence a website
  platform
• Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP)
  review

• Beneficiaries of the TrainForTrade Programme
• Benin
• Djibouti
• Laos PDR
• Madagascar
• Maldives
• Mauritania
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Sudan
• Chad

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From Actions Matrix to Projects

• Old IF UNCTAD TRTASs
• - ASYCUDA Benin, Burkina Faso, Central African
  Republic, Djibouti, Gunea, Lao, Maldives,
  Senegal, sierra Leone, Sudan, Chad, Yemen, Zambia
• TrainForTrade Benin, Djibouti, Lao, Madagascar,
  Maldives, Mauritania, Senegal, Sierra Leone,
  Sudan, Chad
• Commodities Benin, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Lao,
  Sao tomé, Tanzania
• Trade Facilitation Zambia, Tanzania, Sao Tomé,
  Maldives, Malawi, Madagascar, Guinea, Lesotho,
  Lao, Gambia, Ethiopa, Burkina Faso, Benin
• Investment Benin, Burkina Faso, Ethiopa,
  Gambia, Guinea, Lao, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi,
  Maldives, Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania, Chad, Yemen
• Commercial Diplomay trade negotiations Sudan,
  Chad, Zambia, Uganda, Guinea, Djibouti, Central
  African Republic
• Tourism Chad, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Nepal,
  Uganda, Mauritania, Maldives, Madagascar, Lao,
  Guinea, Gambia, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Central
  African Republic

TRTAs Priorities
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ExampleConcrete application of TrainForTrade in
the EIF

• Tier 1 Capacity Building Programme for EIF NIUs
  
• Tier 2 capacity development in the field of
  sustainable tourism
• Benin (Being implemented)
• Mali (request from EIF NIU)
• Djibouti (request from Tourism Authorities and
  EIF NIU)

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Examples within the IF

• Benin
• Objective promotion of sustainable and
  community-based tourism for development
• Request from the Ministry of Trade
• UNCTAD prepared a proposal which was funded by IF
  Window II
• The project included 3 components
• Interagency study on sustainable tourism
• Coordination activities with 35 sustainable
  tourism stakeholders from the selected
  communities of Abomey, Ganvié, Ouidah organized
  in March 2009
• Training to be organized in September 2009
• Lao PDR
• Objective development of trade-related training
  capacities of Lao PDR and Cambodia
• Requested by Ministry of Trade and Industry
• Specifically mentioned in the Action Matrix and
  funded by the Government of France
• Over 300 trade operators trained and 17 trainers
  able to deliver UNCTAD courses in local language

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Thank you for your attention ! For further
information contact EIF Coordinator,
UNCTAD Masoumeh.Sahami_at_UNCTAD.org Tel
0041-22-917 5537