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Standards and Trade
Development Facility (STDF)
A joint initiative in SPS capacity building
and technical cooperation
OIE Global Conference on Veterinary Legislation
7-9 December 2010 (Djerba, Tunisia)
Benefits
• Facilitates trade in food and agricultural
products → higher incomes, employment,
poverty reduction
• Higher production levels → improved food
security situation
• Improved public health → less medical
expenses, less working days lost, etc.
Key areas of STDF work
• Action oriented research and development of
SPS guidance materials, tools, etc.
• Information exchange / awareness raising
• Project development
• Project grants
Examples
• Thematic events:
– SPS-related Public-Private Partnerships, The Hague (Oct. 2010)
– Economic analysis to inform SPS decision-making (Oct. 2009)
– Good practice in SPS technical cooperation (Oct. 2008)
• Studies on regional and national SPS coordination
mechanisms in Africa
• SPS indicators to measure performance of national SPS
systems
• Use of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis to inform SPS
decision-making
Information exchange / awareness
raising
• STDF Working Group, SPS Committee,
Codex/OIE/IPPC and participation in other
external meetings
• “Trading Safely” Film
• Briefings
• Newsletters
• Other publications
Synergies with other initiatives
• Aid for Trade
• Enhanced Integrated Framework (40% target LDCs and
OLICs)
• Regional development banks
• SPS-specific technical cooperation programmes, i.e.
PAN-SPSO, BTSF
• Broader programmes with focus on agriculture, trade
facilitation, etc.
Project development
• Project preparation grants
(PPGs) ≤ $30,000
• Application of SPS-related
capacity evaluation tools
– OIE PVS tool
– FAO/WHO tool “Strengthening
national food control systems”
– FAO biosecurity tool
– World Bank SPS action plans
Project grants
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Between US$ 150,000 and 600,000
Duration of 2 years or less
Beneficiary contribution
Focus on innovation, good practice (development of
tools, methodologies, training materials and other
information resources)
• Collaboration among partners (e.g. OIE, FAO, World
Bank)
Good practice in SPS technical
cooperation
• Ensure national ownership
• Consider the country’s context and absorptive capacity
• Carefully assess and prioritize needs
• Ensure activities are transparent, connected and in sequence
• Adopt a value chain approach to maximize trade impact
• Encourage public and private sector participation
• Be flexible during implementation
• Link the development of skills to practice
• Strengthen management capacity and manage for results
• Rigorously evaluate impact
What does this mean for funding
applications?
Should identify and address a genuine problem:
• Have all concerned stakeholders been consulted and engaged?
• Have capacity needs/gaps been assessed?
• What are the priorities? How does proposal fit into national
development plans, strategies, etc.?
• What has already been done or is ongoing / planned?
• Where does it make most sense to allocate resources (costs and
benefits)?
• Can resources be leveraged from elsewhere (including locally)?
Experiences and considerations for
“legislation” projects
• Assessment of existing relevant legislation (incl. international/
regional obligations) and institutional framework
• Costs and benefits? → Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA)?
• OIE Guidelines on Veterinary Legislation useful instrument in
tailoring legislation to national circumstances
• Stakeholder consultation key in development process
• Focus on implementation / enforcement (staffing, training, facilities
(labs), development of subsidiary legislation (rules, guidelines,
forms/fees), public awareness campaign, etc.)
Conclusions
• Effective and efficient institutional and regulatory
framework is key element of national SPS system and
central in achieving good veterinary governance and
“One World One Health” objectives
• Scope for collaboration and sharing of expertise
(notably OIE, FAO, WB and others)
• Development of methodology / tools on drafting
veterinary legislation / RIA (STDF)
For more information
Standards and Trade
Development Facility (STDF)
World Trade Organization
Centre William Rappard
Rue de Lausanne 154
CH-1211 Geneva
Switzerland
[email protected]
[email protected]
www.standardsfacility.org