Improving and Maintaining Market Access through Standards and Conformity Assessment
What is it?
It
is a one-week ToT that can be conducted at National or Regional levels.
It aims at building a pool of trainers able to customize training
material to take into account specific needs of their countries and
conduct national seminars to build awareness of the importance of
standards and conformity assessment in international trade and provide
initial guidance on how to meet the requirements of export markets.
The technical content elaborated in seven modules covers, inter alia,
the WTO Agreements on TBT and SPS and their benefits for the business
sector; Standards, Technical Regulations and SPS Measures; Conformity
Assessment; Quality Management; Accreditation and Mutual Recognition
Agreements.
Who is it for?
For national and regional trainers in the area of quality.
For
exporters, potential exporters (SMEs) and all those who want to obtain
information about how to improve and maintain market access by using the
benefits which can be derived from the WTO Agreements on TBT and SPS
for the export-oriented business community.
Training material
The
ITC Pack on “Improving and Maintaining Market Access through Standards
and Conformity Assessment” is used as the main training material. It
consists of PowerPoint presentation elaborating seven technical modules,
with slides and speaker’s notes. It should be used in conjunction with
the ITC publication on “Export Quality Management: An answer book for small and medium-sized exporters”.
Case studies and group exercises are used to apply the knowledge acquired.
ToT programme structure:
One-day seminar conducted by ITC experts to trainers and SME representatives
Three-day TOT
One-day seminar conducted by trained trainers under supervision of ITC experts to SME representatives