Project objective

The needs assessment (NA) will frame a dialogue with political and economic leaders around the country's or region's main development objectives and will define ITC's role in achieving these strategic objectives for the years to come through trade-related technical assistance. The project design (PD) work will generate in close consultations with country and regional stakeholders concrete support packages in form of large projects or programmes. The objective is to bring together ITC expertise in results-oriented sets of interventions around key impact areas to achieve maximum impact of ITC's work. 2013: The project will carry out 8 country (Senegal; Malawi; Guinea; State of Palestine; Georgia; Haiti; Brazil; Myanmar) and 3 regional (Pan African Programme; ASEAN; SITA) needs assessments pilots and will translate the findings into appropriate solutions for trade-related technical assistance by the ITC. 2014: Needs assessment will be rolled out based on requests by beneficiary countries and funding opportunities for ITC's projects and programmes.