Aid for Trade

Norway’s Action Plan 2007

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Challenges on the Norwegian side

• Well defined development policies

• Long-term concentration on social sectors in the LDCs in Eastern and Southern Africa

• How does Aid for Trade fit in?

• And: How could we bring trade policy authorities together with development policy authorities?

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Norway’s Aid for Trade: Basic considerations

• Norway can’t do everything, need a clear focus

• We have limited administrative capacity

• Could only be a long term objective to really integrate existing support for infrastructure and productive capacity in the Aid for Trade initiative

• Should not impose additional burdens on partner countries through uncoordinated bilateral initiatives

• Conclusion: we will give priority to multilateral channels

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Norway’s Action Plan: priorities for the use of our new, additional resources

Priority to multilateral channels:• The enhanced Integrated Framework• Additional resources in particular through UNIDO, the ITC and the

World Bank (although existing support to UNCTAD, WTO etc. will continue)

Thematic priorities: 1) Good governance and fight against corruption (in trade matters):

Trade policy, trade facilitation, standards and trade, fair and responsible trade

2) Regional trade: Strengthen regional institutions. Cooperation initiatives in selected regions

3) Women and trade: Special programmes related to women and trade through multilateral channels

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Norway’s Action Plan

on Aid for Trade:

Here it is, brand new!

- you can find it in

the back of the room -

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Norway’s monitoring and evaluation

• The Action Plan: A starting point for the follow-up

• Priority to monitoring and evaluation: We need real results

• Self-assessment after three years to see if priorities should be revised

• Consultations with private sector and civil society during the whole process, -essential to our success!