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Aid for Trade Facilitation What the data • Aid for Trade Facilitation on Notifications tells us UNCTAD’s work • Focus: • The Empowerment – programme for NTFCs Jan.Hoffmann@UNCTAD.org Trade Portals Geneva, March 2016 – Trade Facilitation and Development: The Chicken and the Egg Source: UNCTAD Trade Facilitation & Development Forthcoming Source: UNCTAD Source: UNCTAD Trade Facilitation & Development Trade Facilitation & Development Forthcoming Forthcoming 1

Source: UNCTAD Trade Facilitation & Development Forthcoming Source: UNCTAD Trade Facilitation & Development Forthcoming TF measures and Doing Business Clusters of TF measures Source: UNCTAD Trade Facilitation & Development Forthcoming Source: UNCTAD Trade Facilitation & Development Forthcoming Beyond trade policies… TTF is good for development TTF reforms help to … TTF reforms help to … TTF reforms help to … TTF reforms help to … • formalize trade, formalize trade, formalize trade, formalize trade, • save time and frustrations, save time and frustrations, save time and frustrations, save time and frustrations, • improve governance, improve governance, improve governance, improve governance, • empower women entrepreneurs, empower women entrepreneurs, empower women entrepreneurs, empower women entrepreneurs, • strengthen strengthen strengthen strengthen r regional integration, r r egional integration, egional integration, egional integration, • modernize public administrations, modernize public administrations, modernize public administrations, modernize public administrations, • foster IT capacities, foster IT capacities, foster IT capacities, foster IT capacities, • improve security, and i i i mprove security, and mprove security, and mprove security, and • increase revenue increase revenue collection. increase revenue increase revenue collection. collection. collection. 2

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Thank you • Germany • United Kingdom • Trade Mark East Africa • Sweden • European Commission Aid for Trade Facilitation What the data • • UNCTAD provides an intensive professional on Notifications program for the Secretariat and the members tells us of National Trade Facilitation Committees UNCTAD’s work (NTFCs). • • The main objective is to help them Focus: • implement, in a coordinated manner, trade The Empowerment – facilitation reforms, including the provisions of programme for the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement NTFCs (TFA). Trade Portals – BENEFITS KEY ASPECTS • Establishing the National Trade Facilitation • Courses developed by international experts Committee (NTFCs), if required. and in collaboration with other UN and • Improving teamwork dynamics within the international organisations NTFC • Content tailor-made to country specific needs • Launching a National Trade Facilitation Roadmap to mainstream trade facilitation • E-learning and face-to-face trainings beyond the WTO TFA • Interactive methodology: "learning by doing" • Ensuring knowledge transfer thanks to the Training-of-Trainers approach • Technical visits in the field • Providing a sign of quality for donors and • Training-of-Trainers module included international agencies • A flexible modular approach 4

PROGRAM DURATION / MODULE TARGET AUDIENCE & APPROACH LANGUAGE • The course is conceived for current and • A total of 6 modules of 30 hours each, potential members of the NTFC, including available on demand its Secretariat and a high variety of public • Module's length from 3 to 5 days and private sector members. • Possibility to choose sequence of modules depending on your needs • UNCTAD's Empowerment Program for • Optional Module 0 on establishing NTFCs NTFCs is available in English, French and Spanish. Other languages can be available upon request CERTIFICATION • After successful completion of UNCTAD's Empowerment Program, members of the National Trade Facilitation Committee will be granted an UNCTAD certification of completion. MODULAR APPROACH • The empowered NTFCs will be featured in UNCTAD's online repository on NTFCs. Module ESTABLISHING AN NTFC 0 KICK-OFF EVENT • General concepts on trade facilitation • Raising awareness about trade facilitation • Drafting terms of reference (ToRs)- • Ensuring buy-in of high level authorities applying best practices • Launch of Empowerment Program building • Adoption process of ToRs and formal • Identification of particular needs for the procedure country • Presentation of drafted documents to main political stakeholders to ensure buy-in 5

INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS & MEASURING & IMPLEMENTING Module Module 1 2 RECOMMENDATIONS TRADE FACILITATION • How to analyse trade data (example of • General concepts on trade facilitation soft content) (hard content) • Techniques to identify bottlenecks and • Trade facilitation and global supply chain management and the promotion of exports analyse results (hard content) (example of soft content) • Introduction to the use of information and • Standards and international legal communication technologies in trade framework for trade facilitation (hard facilitation (hard content) content) • Implementation of WTO Trade Facilitation • Introduction to complex measures such as Agreement (hard content) single window (example of soft content) STRENGHNENING NTFC & Module Module TRAINING OF TRAINERS 3 4 ESTABLISHING A TF ROADMAP • Guidelines and best practices to • Training-Of-Trainers techniques strengthening NTFCs (hard content) • Training-Of-Trainers presentations of • How to improve consultations / with focus topics identified during the previous on negotiation skills (example of soft modules content) • Establishing a procedure for training new • How to establish a 3-5 trade facilitation members of the NTFC roadmap with key performance indicators • Identifying training needs for the NTFC for (hard content) the next year Cooperation with… • International Trade Centre • UN-ECE • World Customs Organization (UK funded joint project) • UNIDO, World Bank, many others case-by-case 6

Aid for Trade Facilitation What the data • on Notifications tells us UNCTAD’s work • Focus: • The Empowerment – programme for NTFCs Trade Portals – 7