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Starting date |
November 2005 |
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Chief national counterpart: |
Ministère de l’Industrie
et du Commerce, Direction Nationale du Commerce et de la
Concurrence (DNCC) |
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Location: |
Bamako, Mali |
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In
addition to the role played by the Ministry in the implementation of
the programme, cooperation, arrangements will be established with
other support institutions, both public (i.e. government offices and
export promotion or related support institutions) as well as private
(Consular offices and professional associations).
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PACT programme will be implemented in coordination with technical
assistance programmes/projects pertaining to international trade
such as the Integrated Framework, JITAP and Trade Mali, as required
by the respective activities foreseen. |
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Budget: |
US$ 450,000 (including
support cost) |
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Executive Summary
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The
PACT programme is structured into two phases. In the first phase
launched in December 2003, national programmes were designed and
implemented in four pilot countries -
Ghana,
Senegal,
South Africa and
Tanzania;.Mali is one of
the three African countries chosen to benefit from the programme
in its second phase (along with Ethiopia and Mozambique) from
2005 onwards.
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PACT-Mali is in accordance
with the Integrated Framework baseline document i.e.the
Diagnostic Trade Integration Study (DTIS) validated inNovember
2004. The Programme
is aimed at providing support to the implementation of top
priority actions as defined in the National Workshop on the
Integrated Framework’s report, including the following domains : |
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(a)
Assistance in the
capacity building of export support institutions covering:
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- Advice
to relevant stakeholders in order to ensure a better
coordination of their promotion actions and especially the
National Department of Trade and Competition Enforcement (DNCC),
the National Handicraft Promotion Office (CNPA), the National
Investment Promotion Department (CNPI), the Chamber of
Commerce and Industry of Mali (CCIM);
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- Hands-on
training sessions on collection and analysis of markets trade
information (also in connection to the market survey missions
foreseen);
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- The
development of a global export promotion web portal for Mali;
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- The
delivery of a hands-on training session on “how to export
successfully “ (in the form of a training of trainers).
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(b)
Special support to two target sectors,
namely the horticultural sector, in particular the fresh
products sub-sector on the one hand and the crafts industry on
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More specifically, it is related to
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For the horticulture sector:
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a diagnostic of the packaging sub-sector, followed by sector
specific seminars that lead to a detailed action plan aimed at
improving the sub-sector’s performance;
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- the
organization and follow-up of a business development mission
on new markets;
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Concerning the handicraft sector :
- Technical
assistance for the organization by the Malian Embassy of the
Business Days of Mali in Canada, in September 2005 on the
fringe of the Malian President‘s visit to Canada in may 2005;
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- the
publishing, translation and printing of a number of brochures
/ flyers on handicraft in Mali;
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- an
information workshop in Mali on « How to export to Canada »
followed by guidance to several enterprises from the
handicraft sector in view of their participation to a market
survey mission to Canada organized on the occasion of The
Business Days of Mali in Canada;
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- follow-up
of the mission to Canada as required, so that these endeavours
result in actual business transactions.
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