United Nations TD/B/WP/232/Add.1 United Nations Conference Distr.: General 19 August 2011 on Trade and Development English only Trade and Development Board Working Party on the Strategic Framework and the Programme Budget Fifty-ninth session Geneva, 5–7 September 2011 Item 3 of the provisional agenda Review of the technical cooperation activities of UNCTAD and their financing Report by the Secretary-General of UNCTAD Annex I: Review of activities undertaken in 2010 GE.11- TD/B/WP/232/Add.1 Contents Page Introduction...................................................................................................................................................... 8 Cluster I. Capacity-building on trade negotiations and commercial diplomacy........................................................ 8 A. Enhanced trade negotiations and trade policy formulation capacities for meeting the Millennium Development Goals................................................................................................ 8 B. Support for accession to WTO..................................................................................................15 C. Services for development and trade .........................................................................................17 D. Capacity-building on market access, preferences, GSP, GSTP and other trade laws.................20 II. Trade analysis capacities and information systems..................................................................................23 A. Strengthened analytical tools and database (including on non-tariff barriers)...........................23 B. Increased participation in new and dynamic sectors of world trade..........................................24 C. Creative economy and industries..............................................................................................25 III. Commodity-sector development and poverty reduction...........................................................................28 A. All ACP Agricultural Commodities Programme .......................................................................28 B. Commodity sector development and poverty reduction – INFOCOMM...................................30 C. Global Commodities Forum ......................................................................................................31 D. Trust fund on iron ore...............................................................................................................32 E. Commodity risk management, finance and energy - Fourteenth African Oil, Gas and Mines Trade and Finance Conference and Exhibition ................................................32 IV. Competition policy and consumer protection...........................................................................................34 A. Outputs at the national level.....................................................................................................35 B. Outputs at regional and subregional levels ...............................................................................36 C. Cooperation with other organizations.......................................................................................37 V. Trade, environment and development ......................................................................................................38 A. Addressing environmental, health, and food-safety requirements, and their developmental and market access impact ................................................................................38 B. Strenthening capacities in dealing with the trade, environment and development interface......44 C. Enhanced harmonization and equivalence in standards governing international trade in organic agricultural products................................................................................................45 D. Enhanced opportunities in Biotrade..........................................................................................47 E. Enhanced opportunities in Biofuels..........................................................................................50 F. Trade, development and investment opportunities in the climate change regime......................51 VI. FDI trends and issues...............................................................................................................................54 A. World Investment Report series................................................................................................54 B. Capacity-building in FDI statistics ...............................................................................................56 VII. Investment policies..................................................................................................................................58 A. Investment policy reviews and follow-up programme ..............................................................58 B. International investment agreements ........................................................................................61 2 TD/B/WP/232/Add.1 Page VIII. Investment facilitation............................................................................................................................70 A. Investment promotion................................................................................................................70 B. eRegulations, iTrack, Investment Guides and Regulatory Advisory .........................................73 C. Intellectual property .................................................................................................................74 IX. Enterprise development ...........................................................................................................................78 A. Entrepreneurship and small and medium-sized enterprise development: Empretec ..................78 B. Business linkages .......................................................................................................................81 C. E-Tourism Initiative .................................................................................................................84 D. Accounting: corporate reporting...............................................................................................85 E. Insurance Programme...............................................................................................................86 X. Globalization and development strategies................................................................................................88 A. Macroeconomic and development policies: technical support to the intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four on international monetary affairs and development (G-24) .................................88 B. Promoting responsible sovereign lending and borrowing .........................................................89 C. Special Programme: UNCTAD assistance to the Palestinian people.........................................90 D. Promoting sub-regional growth-oriented economic and trade policies towards achieving the MDGs in Arab countries of West Asia and North Africa...................................92 XI. Strengthening the debt management capacity of developing countries ....................................................93 A. The Debt Management and Financial Analysis System (DMFAS) programme.........................93 XII. Transport and trade facilitation ................................................................................................................98 A. Trade Logistics.........................................................................................................................98 B. The ASYCUDA programme ...................................................................................................101 XIII. ICT policies and applications for development.....................................................................................106 A. ICT policies for development .................................................................................................106 XIV. Cross-divisional training and capacity-building....................................................................................110 A. TrainForTrade programme......................................................................................................110 B. Course on key issues on the international economic agenda...................................................114 C. The Virtual Institute on Trade and Development ....................................................................116 XV. Science, technology and innovation .......................................................................................................119 A. Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP) reviews...................................................119 B. Network of centres of excellence on science and technology .................................................120 XVI. Productive capacities in landlocked developing countries, small island developing States and structurally weak, vulnerable and small economies..............................................................................122 A. LDC Trust Fund.......................................................................................................................122 B. Activities related to landlocked developing countries ............................................................125 C. Activities related to small island developing States................................................................125