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Aid for Trade Aid for Trade aims to help developing
countries, particularly least-developed countries, develop the trade-related
skills and infrastructure that is needed to implement and
benefit from WTO agreements and to expand their trade. > Fact sheet on Aid for Trade |
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Role of the WTO back to top The role of the WTO is to:
The Standards and Trade Development Facility maintains close contacts with the Aid for Trade initiative. It complements this global scheme through projects and monitoring of aid flows at an operational, issue-specific level.
News back to top
The Aid for Trade initiative was launched at the
Hong Kong
Ministerial Conference in December 2005. In February 2006 the WTO
established a
Task Force, with the aim of
“operationalizing” Aid for
Trade.
Working in cooperation back to top The WTO works in cooperation with an Advisory Group that the Director-General established in 2007 following the recommendations of the 2006 Aid-for-Trade Task Force. The main objective of the Advisory Group is to take forward the Task Force recommendations by encouraging coordination among the key players in the Aid for Trade initiative. The Advisory Group members are: the African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, IMF, Inter-American Development Bank, Islamic Development Bank, ITC, OECD, UNCTAD, UNDP, UNECA, UNIDO and the World Bank.
Implementation/monitoring back to top
In 2007 the WTO's Aid for Trade initiative moved into its first
stage of implementing the 2006 recommendations of the Aid for Trade
Task Force.
A Symposium Identifying Indicators for Monitoring Aid for Trade was held on 15-16 September 2008.
Regional reviews back to top The WTO worked with the World Bank and the regional development banks to launch the first regional reviews of Aid for Trade, with the aim of encouraging recipients, donors and the private sector in each region to work together and to focus on specific challenges, to prioritize needs and to design deliverable business plans. The regional reviews took place in autumn 2007:
Global review back to top In November 2007 the first Global Review and Annual Debate on Aid for Trade by the WTO's General Council took place, providing members with the opportunity to discuss the results of the WTO monitoring process and to provide political guidance on future work. A second Global Review will be held on 6-7 July 2009.
Roadmap back to top The Director-General presented an Annotated 2009 Aid-for-Trade Roadmap at the meeting of the Committee on Trade and Development on 27 February 2009. The Roadmap, designed for the use of all stakeholders, is regularly updated to provide information on progress achieved in the different areas of the Aid-for-Trade initiative.
Official documents on Aid for Trade back to top Links to documents series: (WT/AFT/*) and (WT/COMTD/AFT/*) |
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