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UNCTAD Trade, Environment Development Branch
and
UNEP Economics and Trade Branch
• Briefing to Geneva-based missions, 21 February 2003– UNEP-UCTAD Capacity
Building Task Force– Related UNCTAD activities
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UNCTAD: Views of Member States
Midterm review (Bangkok)
• “Joint programmes with other organizations, such as CBTF, are an effective means for delivering mandates and maximizing the impact of UNCTAD’s work“
UNCTAD Trade Commission (Geneva)
• Agreed recommendation: Strengthen CBTF, BIOTRADE and projects aimed at improved T&E policy making and negotiation
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Selected CBTF projects
• Training workshop Cuba (Dec 2001)
• Training workshop Viet Nam (Dec 2001)
• Policy dialogue on organic agriculture (Brussels, Feb 2002)
• Regional workshop on T&E Post-Doha (Singapore May 2002 / back-to-back WTO)
• Regional project for Central America/Caribbean on sound
management of used vehicle batteries (El Salvador, 18-20 Nov 2002)
• Regional workshop on Post-Doha T&E (Fiji, 29 Nov 2002 / back-to-back WTO)
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Selected CBTF projects
• Intergrated asessments of Trade Policies (Lebanon)
• Design and implementation of economic instruments (Indonesia)
• Rice projects
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In preparation (CBTF-I)
• Training workshop for selected African countries
• Workshop for Lusophone countries
Luanda, Angola, in May 2003
• Workshop for Lusophone countries
Brasilia
• Training workshop in Cambodia
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Recent activities
• New CBTF website with detailed information on projects, meetings and projects
• Publication of report of Brussels organic agriculture meeting in three languages
• New partnerships for training
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CBTF Phase II
• Launched at the World Summit on Sustainable Development
• UNCTAD-UNEP side event on Capacity Building and Sustainable Development, in cooperation with Common Fund for Commodities
• Type-2 Partnership• New funding from European
Commission and the Netherlands
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CBTF Phase II
• Regional programmes• Regional meeting for Anglophone
Countries in the Caribbean
Jamaica, Nov 2003 (back-to-back with WTO regional seminar)
BIOTRADE
Biotrade Facilitation Programme
Andean BIOTRADE Programme
New Ventures Amazonian Investor Forum
UNCTAD/CFC
Five projects
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Improved T&E Policy Making and Negotiation
• Assist developing countries in:– WTO work programme on T&E– Adressing T&E issues
• Comprehensive CB needs assessment
– Geneva, 30 Sep-1 Oct 2002
– Nairobi, 18-20 Nov 2002
– Guatemala, 21-22 Nov 2002
– Bangkok, 3-4 Dec 2002
• Strong synergies with CBTF
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Improved T&E Policy Making and Negotiation
Implementation starting in
• Central America and Caribbean– Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican
Republic, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua
• Asia– Bangladesh, China, Philippines,
Thailand and Viet Nam
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Other UNCTAD events
• UNCTAD/FAO/IFOAM Task Force on Harmonization and Equivalence in Organic Agriculture (Nuremberg, 18 Feb 2003, Geneva, Nov 2003)
• UNCTAD-ECLAC regional meeting on EGS (Havana, 24-25 March 2003)
• Launching of new TrainforTrade programme for Cambodia and Lao PDR
• Expert meeting on EGS (Geneva, 9-11
July 2003) (India, August 2003)
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Contacts• , August 2003)
http://www.unctad.org/trade_env/index.htm
Trade, Environment and Development Branch, DITC
UNCTAD
Tel: 41-22-917 4766
Fax: 41-22-907 0247