World Customs Organization (WCO); World Bank Group (WBG); Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF); International Air Transport Association (IATA); International Trade Centre (ITC); Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF); United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE); United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD); WEF
Description
This course aimed to build the capacity of committee chairs, help develop a network of contacts among chairs of national trade facilitation committees of different Members and a good working relationship with the organizations that will provide technical assistance to support their respective national committees.
Other information (Description/Links)
The WTO funded 31 participants from 30 different countries, including 8 females and 23 males
GATF; United States Agency for International Development (USAID);
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD); DFAT
Description
1.1 Publication
1.2 Information Available through Internet
7.6 Establishment and Publication of Average Release Times
23.2 National Committee on Trade Facilitation
Contact Point(s)
Name
William Gain
Position
Global Program Manager, Trade Facilitation & Border Management
The project is to improve trade performance and international competitiveness of MSMEs through enhanced favorable framework condition for trade, public-private dialogue mechanisms, and a strengthened eco-system for dynamic trade promotion to achieve this long-term objective, the programme foresees to accomplish three major outcomes: 1) Exports are facilitated and documented in a National Strategy; 2) the private sector collaborates with the Government through public-private dialogues for export development; and 3) dynamic Business Support Organizations (BSOs) are enabled to deliver services to SMEs for exports and participation in global value chains.
Contact Point(s)
Name
Mohammad Saeed
Email
saeed [at] intracen.org
Name
Eleonora Salluzzi
Email
esalluzzi [at] intracen.org
Informations extraites des notifications de l'article 22
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The Global Trade Facilitation Program (GTFP) is a multi-bi donor program of the World Customs Organization (WCO) and Switzerland providing support to priority countries in the realm of the Swiss Economic Development Cooperation. The program assists countries in implementing the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement and the WCO Revised Kyoto Convention.
Committed:
5500000 CHF
Albania, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Egypt, Georgia, Ghana, Indonesia, Kyrgyz Republic, North Macedonia, Peru, Serbia, South Africa, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Ukraine, Viet Nam, Kosovo
WCO: World Customs Organization
Requests for assistance can be made to the notified TF Contact Point responsible for technical assistance and capacity Building or directly to the WCO.
Eligible countries will be selected through the program.