Transcript WHAT IS IT? BLACK SEA TRADE AND INVESTMENT PROMOTION PROGRAMME

BLACK SEA TRADE AND INVESTMENT
PROMOTION PROGRAMME
WHAT IS IT?
United Nations Development Programme
Regional Bureau for Europe and CIS
A PROGRAMME AIMING AT THE EXPANSION OF THE INTRAREGIONAL TRADE
AND
INVESTMENT
LINKS
BY
IDENTIFYING THE UNTAPPED INVESTMENT AND TRADE
POTENTIAL IN THE SUBREGION, AND PUTTING INTO PLACE
THE MECHANISMS TO EXPLOIT
BLACK SEA TRADE AND
INVESTMENT PROMOTION
PROGRAMME
United Nations Development Programme
Regional Bureau for Europe and CIS
WHERE DOES IT WORK?
ALBANIA
ARMENIA
AZERBAIJAN
BULGARIA
GEORGIA
GREECE
MOLDOVA
ROMANIA
RUSSIA
SERBIA
TURKEY
UKRAINE
United Nations Development Programme
Regional Bureau for Europe and CIS
THE PROGRAMME WILL BE IMPLEMENTED IN
COOPERATION WITH THE LOCAL CHAMBERS
OF COMMERCE AND OTHER BUSINESS
SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS
United Nations Development Programme
Regional Bureau for Europe and CIS
HOW DOES IT WORK?
PROPOSED METHODOLOGY FOR THE EXPANSION OF SUBREGIONAL TRADE AND INVESTMENT LINKS WITHIN THE BLACK
SEA REGION
Untapped Black Sea Intra Regional
Trade and Investment potential
Identification of Black Sea Intra-Regional Trade and
Investment potential through market surveys
Partnership with Black Sea
National/Regional Business
Support Institutions
Translating the potential into Black Sea
Regional Trade and Investment
promotion events
Black Sea Intra-regional
trade & investment links
generated
Identification of constraints
hampering intra-Black Sea
Trade & Investment
Partnership with Black Sea
Sub-regional organizations to
address constraints
United Nations Development Programme
Regional Bureau for Europe and CIS
PHASE I:
THE UNTAPPED BLACK SEA INTRA-REGIONAL
TRADE AND INVESTMENT POTENTIAL WILL BE
IDENTIFIED THROUGH A TRADE FLOW AND AN
INVESTIMENT CLIMATE SURVEY
United Nations Development Programme
Regional Bureau for Europe and CIS
PHASE II:
PRODUCT/SERVICES SECTORS HAVING THE
HIGHEST
INTRA-REGIONAL TRADE
AND
INVESTMENT POTENTIAL WILL BE IDENTIFIED
United Nations Development Programme
Regional Bureau for Europe and CIS
PHASE III:
A PRODUCT/SERVICE SELECTION
ORGANIZED IN ORDER TO:
WORKSHOPS
TO
BE
A) DECIDE WHICH SECTOR GROUPS TO FOCUS
B)
IDENTIFY NATIONAL COUNTERPARTS IN EVERY COUNTRY (E.G.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, EXPORT AND INVESTMENT
PROMOTION AGENCIES)
United Nations Development Programme
Regional Bureau for Europe and CIS
PHASE IV:
IDENTIFY MAJOR BUSINESS PLAYERS FOR
EACH OF THE SECTOR IDENTIFIED THROUGH
THE UNDERTAKING OF MARKET SURVEYS
AND/OR THE USE OF BROKERS
United Nations Development Programme
Regional Bureau for Europe and CIS
PHASE V:
ORGANIZATION OF FIVE INTRA-REGIONAL TRADE
AND INVESTMENT PROMOTIONAL EVENTS ON
THE SECTORS PREVIOUSLY IDENTIFIED
United Nations Development Programme
Regional Bureau for Europe and CIS
WHAT DO WE EXPECT?
1) TRADE AND INVESTMENT LINKS GENERATED
THE PRIVATE SECTOR OF THE REGION
WITHIN
2) IDENTIFY CONSTRAINTS HAMPERING INTRA-REGIONAL
TRADE AND INVESTMENT AND DEVELOP PARTNERSHIP
WITH NATIONAL AND SUBREGIONAL BUSINESS
SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS TO
ADDRESS
THESE
CONSTRAINTS
3) ASSIST LOCAL BUSINESS SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS IN
BUILDING CAPACITY FOR MAINSTREAMING INTRAREGIONAL PROMOTION ACTIVITIES IN THEIR WORK
For more information
Giuseppe Belsito
Programme Manager
E-mail:[email protected]