Transcript UNECE / ITC Joint ECE Committee on Trade and ITC High-level Segment June 18th, 2012 UNDP’s support of trade diversification in Wider Europe - Aid.

UNECE / ITC
Joint ECE Committee on Trade and ITC
High-level Segment
June 18th, 2012
UNDP’s support of trade diversification in
Wider Europe - Aid for Trade project
United Nations Development Programme
UNDP and TRADE
Linking trade with human
development
UNDP’s focus is to help developing countries:
– build capacity to compete internationally by overcoming
supply side constraints;
– build capacity to negotiate, interpret and implement
trade policies in a manner that prioritizes poverty
reduction and human development; and
– incorporate pro-poor, development-centered trade
policies into national development strategies, including
poverty reduction programmes.
Policy Advisory Services
UNDP AfT Working Principles
Basic orientation:
1. Eradication of extreme poverty (UN MDG)
2. Promotion of trade and private sector as a tool for
leveraging human development
Approaches:
1. Multi-level, multi-disciplinary
2. Promoting regional integration
3. Inclusive green, inequality-reducing economic growth
4. Balance between productivity, equality, sustainability,
empowerment
Wider Europe - Aid for Trade
Project Overview
Donors:
Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
Government of Luxembourg
Implementation period:
Phase I: 2009 – 2011
Phase II: 2011 – 2014
Budget: (in million Euro)
Phase I: 1.8
Phase II: 4.7
Wider Europe - Aid for Trade
Project Overview
11 countries in Central Asia, South Caucasus, Western CIS
Wider Europe - Aid for Trade
Phase I
1. AfT Need Assessment CA
2. Economic development along transport
corridors in CA for SME, farmers and
associations
3. AfT Need assessment Caucasus & WE
Wider Europe - Aid for Trade
Phase II
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Linking products with key markets along trade corridors
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Business Development Centres : ARM, GEO, KAZ, KGZ, TAJ
Business training & SME advise : GEO, KAZ, KGZ, MDL, TAJ
Co-financing innovative investments : ARM, KAZ, KGZ, TAJ
Trade information:
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business/exporters/investment guides : GEO,
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online market places : ARM, KGZ, TAJ
Trade in services : GEO
Vocational skills : GEO
Environmental friendly production : KGZ, TAJ
II. Better use of trade opportunities
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Electronic trading facility for light industry : BEL
Capacity development for fruit sector : MDL
Oblast trade strategy : TAJ
Trade policy – national export strategy, WTO tariff commitments, export financing : UKR
Wider Europe - Aid for Trade
Phase II
III. Overcoming trade barriers
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Informal trade barriers: research, dialogue process, information (GEO, MDL)
Trade Capacity Development
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Local: oblast administration, staff of trade/business/information centers (ARM, GEO,
TAJ, UKR)
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Central Asia trilateral : governments, trade support agencies, entrepreneurial
associations (KGZ, TAJ, UZB)
IV. SMEs to benefit from trade
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Application of new technologies, tools for better market access for SMEs (Central Asia –
Western China)
FairTrade: certification, B2B, SME network, trade fairs (Central Asia)
CRS criteria
AfT Project , Phase II
Integrated AfT approach –
1. strengthening productive base and
2. assist in implementing trade agreements
-- linking micro with meso and macro level:
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TRADE POLICY AND REGULATIONS (TPR)
1. Trade Policy and administrative management (33110)
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Oblast Trade Development Strategy (TAJ), Study on trade in Eastern KAZ, Study on
state export finance (UKR)
Trade facilitation
Regional trade agreements (RTAs)
Multilateral trade negotiations
Trade education/training (33181)
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Trade Capacity Development for oblast administration, staff of trade centers (ARM,
GEO, TAJ, UKR), and Central Asia trilateral (KGZ, TAJ, UZB)
CRS criteria
AfT Project , Phase II
Integrated AfT approach
II. TRADE DEVELOPMENT (TD)
1. Building productive capacity (33210)
2. Banking and finance (240xx)
3. Business support services and institutions (25010)
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Business Development Centres : ARM, GEO, KAZ, KGZ, TAJ
Business training & SME advise: GEO, KAZ, KGZ, MDL, TAJ
Trade information:
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business/exporters/investment guides GEO
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online market places ARM, KGZ, TAJ
Trade in services : GEO
Vocational skills : GEO
Environmental friendly production : KGZ, TAJ
III. ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE (EI)
CRS criteria
AfT Project , Phase II
Integrated AfT approach
IV. BUILDING PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY (BPC)
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Banking and Financial Services (24010 to 24081)
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Co-financing innovative investments : ARM, KAZ, KGZ, TAJ
Business and other Services (25010-20)
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market and trade information centres: ARM, GEO, KAZ, KGZ, TAJ
Capacity development for associations: ARM, KAZ, KGZ, MLD, TAJ, UZB; proposed
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Agriculture (31110 to 31195)
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value addition by introducing eco-friendly new technologies: clay-wall greenhouses,
organic manure, producing and storage of fruits
Forestry
Fishing
Industry
Mineral resources and mining
Tourism (33210)
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Training of tourism service providers: GEO
V. TRADE RELATED ADJUSTMENTS (TRA)
TRADE and HUMAN DEVELOPMENT UNIT
Scaling up UNDP’s substantive support to Aid for Trade and the
Enhanced Integrated Framework
(corporate resource center for trade and development)
How?
– Mainstreaming trade (policy; institutional; international
cooperation)
– Human Development Impact Assessment of Trade and
Investments Policies
– Develop capacities of trade related institutions
(Capacity Development)
– Support UNDP’s regional and national programming
towards enhancing competitiveness (private sector development
portfolio)
– Facilitating UN coordination (CEB Cluster, SCTD, etc.)
REGIONAL CENTER for EUROPE AND CIS
Bratislava, Slovakia
http://europeandcis.undp.org/poverty
http://akvo.org/rsr/project/305/
[email protected]
TRADE & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT UNIT
Geneva, Switzerland
www.undp.org/poverty/focus_trade_ip_migration.shtml
www.undp.org/geneva/trade.html
[email protected]