Aid for Trade is critical
to sustainable development and poverty reduction efforts. It is the link
between trade and development.
The International Trade
Centre (ITC) is 100% Aid for Trade, bringing the private sector voice to trade
development. ITC partners with the private
sector to ensure that Aid for Trade leads small and medium enterprises to
global markets. Within this framework,
ITC facilitates the three important roles of the private sector: advocates;
partners; and beneficiaries.
The private sector is an advocate in trade policy-making and for
creating a business-friendly environment.
ITC works, for example, with businesses to provide an understanding of
the implications of domestic policy and regulatory reforms as their governments
bid for membership to the World Trade Organization (WTO).
The private sector serves
as an important role as partner in training.
One example is ITC’s supply-chain management training. ITC has worked with partners to create a global certification programme and
training support network, working with partner organisations and local
institutions to leverage and increase skills in supply chain management. ITC also partners with
large corporations to connect them to women-owned vendors through the Platform
for Action on Sourcing from Women.
The private sector also benefits from Aid for Trade, overcoming
supply side constraints and taking advantage of opportunities of trade
liberalization. ITC supports businesses
to increase competitiveness through services including:
- Trade intelligence and
market access information
- Supplying training in the
areas of quality compliance, SPS standards, packaging requirements, customs
procedures, Rules of Origin, and more.
- Business planning, including
product and market diversification, innovation, and product upgrading
- Access to export financing
- Facilitating entry to
markets including business match-making and trade fair participation
ITC is participating in the Third Global Review of Aid for Trade (18 – 19 July 2011, WTO, Geneva,
Switzerland) through a panel discussion, press conference, case stories, videos
and side events.
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Transparency
in Trade Press Conference in partnership with the
African Development Bank, United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development,
and the World Bank
ITC
Executive Director, Ms. Patricia Francis, will speak
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Session
5, Aid for Trade: Accessing Global Private Sector Value
Chains ITC
Executive Director, Ms. Patricia Francis, is a panelist
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Side
event: The role of voluntary standards in global value chains
Hosted by
German government, Swiss government and ITC
ITC Executive Director, Ms. Patricia
Francis, is a panelist |
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ITC Luncheon: Empowering women, powering trade:
integrating women
into global value chains
ITC
Executive Director, Ms. Patricia Francis, will speak
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ITC has prepared six case
stories for the Third Global Review of Aid for Trade: African Cotton
Development Initiative; Ethiopian Coffee Quality Improvement Project; The
Ethical Fashion Programme - Not Charity, Just Work; Aid for Trade and Export
Performance: A business perspective, Uganda; Modular Learning System – Supply
Chain Management; Market Analysis Tools and Capacity Building for LDCs and
Developing Countries. These case stories
and ITC’s videos demonstrating Aid for Trade projects can be found here.
ITC is the joint
agency of WTO and the United Nations and is devoted to helping SMEs in
developing countries become more competitive in global markets and thus to
speed up sustainable economic development and contribute to the achievement of
the Millennium Development Goals.
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