The TradeCom Facility is an ACP Group Programme of 50 million Euros financed by the European Develop

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• The TradeCom Facility is an ACP Group
  Programme of 50 million Euros financed by the
  European Development Fund.

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• Why the TradeCom Program?
• ACP countries and regions wish to develop their
  own economies and alleviate poverty in their
  territory.
• International trade can be a major catalyst of
  economic growth and employment.
• Trade liberalization, if it is to be conducive to
  development, also requires concurrent domestic
  policies.
• Each country has the responsibility to engineer
  coherent and efficient economic policies, to
  develop sound domestic regulation and to conduct
  international trade negotiations accordingly.

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• Why the TradeCom Program?
• Most ACP countries and regions, however, lack the
• capacity for trade policy design and effective
• participation in international trade
  negotiations.
• ACP countries are currently confronted with the
  challenge
• to concurrently transform themselves, integrate
  regionally,
• negotiate European Partnership Agreements, and
• participate in the development of multilateral
  trade rules at
• WTO level.
• The intellectual input required to accompany this
  endeavour is essential. It must be optimal and
  span through several generations.

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• The TradeCom Facility
• is divided in three main components
• 1. Trade Policy Formulation
• 2. Trade Negotiations
• 3. Implementation of Trade Policies and
• International Trade Agreements.

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• Budget Breakdown
• Total Programme 50 Million Euros
• Grant to Commonwealth Secretariat and
  organisation Internationale de la Francophonie
  17 Million Euros
• Overheads team, equipment, premises, etc 4
  Million Euros
• Technical assistance 29 Million Euros in 5
  years for beneficiaries of 79 States and 9
  Regional Integration Organisations

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A Demand-driven Programme
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• Beneficiaries I
• Regional or inter-regional organisations.
• Ministries in charge of trade policy formulation
  and international trade negotiations.
• The thematic or sectoral ministries and public
  services (agriculture, industry, finance and
  customs, justice, standard setting and
  certification bodies)

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• Beneficiaries II
• Representative structures in charge of the
  dialogue between government and private sector.
• Private sector associations, duly representative
  of the business operators.
• Civil society, universities, research and
  training organisations and other non-state
  actors.

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• What projects are eligible?
• Projects must be in accordance with the purpose
  and objectives of the TradeCom facility
• Projects should contribute to poverty
  alleviation.
• In practice they must meet one or more of the
  eligibility criteria

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• Eligibility Criteria
• Contribute to the enhancement of the analytical
  and institutional capacity of the ACP for trade
  policy formulation
• Contribute to the strengthening of the
  institutional capacity to implement trade
  policies and trade agreements
• Contribute to the ongoing process of the ACP-EU
  and /or multilateral negotiations.

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• Quality standards
• Address particular identified capacity
  constraints related to trade policy formulation
  and the negotiations
• Integrate short-term needs with longer capacity
  building objectives
• Provide relevant and accessible trade-related
  outputs to the ACP
• Have a clear focus on the trade-related thematic
  and sectoral areas of concern to the ACP.

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• Quality standards II
• Make use of and help to transfer trade-related
  knowledge and skills to ACP expertise
• Associate in trade policy formulation, to the
  extent possible partners from various but related
  sectors (Government, academics, experts, private
  sector and other stakeholders)
• Encourage networking between different
  stakeholders and producers.

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• Type of Activities
• Technical Assistance only
• Institutional capacity building
• Workshops and seminars
• Training and educational programmes
• Diagnostic studies
• Research
• Networking
• Legal review of laws and regulations having an
  impact on trade.

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• Requests for Assistance
• Standard Request Form asking relevant questions.
• Ensures that objectives of TradeCom are met.
• Ensures quality and sustainability of the Action.
  
• Not difficult to complete
• TradeComPMU available to help

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• Requests for assistance in practice
• Download Standard Request Form or contact PMU.
• Try to complete the form as fully as you can
• Call, write or meet the PMU to seek assistance
  and preliminary feedback
• If needed, the PMU staff can come to assist in
  drafting a request.
• The Request Form is very useful to prepare clear,
  effective and realistic Terms of reference.

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• Requests for assistance what next?
• Finalised requests are submitted by e-mail to the
  Validation Committee
• Submissions will take place once a month, in
  order to take account of geographical and
  institutional equity
• The PMU will motivate each of its assessment of
  the eligibility and quality of requests
• Upon approval, the PMU may then initiate
  implementation
• Implementation must be in full compliance with EU
  procurement rules.

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• Most recently Approved Projects (selection)
• Update as of 15 Sept. 2008
• Ghana Capacity Building to Enhance the
  Competitiveness of the Pharmaceutical Industry in
  line with the WTO TRIPS Agreement Validation
  Workshop.
• Guyana Improving Public-Private Coordination in
  Trade Negotiations and Implementation Capacity
  Building in Exploiting Trade Opportunities.
• Pacific Forum Pacific Regional Action Plan for
  Traditional Knowledge Development.
• ESA configuration Generic Training Manual and
  Training Seminars for ESA countries in drafting
  schedules of commitments for the ESA-EC EPA
  services negotiations
• Congo DRC Conduct on the economy a general
  equilibrium model study of the impact of a
  Central African/EU EPA of the Republic of Congo.

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Type of projects for private sector

• Sectoral impact assessments
• Structuring a lobbying campaign
• Creating/reinforcing capacity within intermediary
  organisations on trade-related issues
• Organising awareness campaign(s) on the
  challenges posed by gradual trade libralisation
• Conduct an offensive strategy on products of
  interest eg. Kava
• Legal services on trade-related issues, including
  the legal assessment of barriers to trade

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• The Management Unit

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• The PMUs current activities
• Update as of 15 Sept. 2008
• Some 37 requests for assistance have been
  received at the PMU since the beginning of the
  year.
• Since March 2008, the Validation Committee
  approved 21 projects for implementation bringing
  the total number of projects implemented or being
  implemented by the PMU to a total of 70.

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• The PMU team
• H.E. M. Lingston CUMBERBATCH, Director
• M. José Lambiza, Administrative and Finance
  Expert
• M. Teddy Soobramanien, Trade Expert
• M. Patrick Martens, Training and Institutional
  Strengthening Expert
• M. Christopher K. ADDY-NAYO, Trade Policy and
  Negotiations expert
• M. Kervin KUMAPLEY, Project Manager
• Ms. Chiara TARDIVO, Project Manager
• Mrs. Maria CELMIRA VILARINHO, Administration and
  Finances Assistant
• Ms. Mariane TAMBWE, Project Assistant

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• Quality, Fairness, Partnership, Commitment,
  Responsiveness and Transparency
• are our principles

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• The Management Unit
• TradeCom Facility for the ACP Countries
• Avenue des Gaulois 20
• B-1040 Brussels
• Belgium
•  Tel. [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• www.tradecom-acpeu.org

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