2008 Food and Agriculture Organization International Atomic Energy Agency ] UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM International Civil Aviation Organization Chief Executives Board for Coordination High Level Committee on Programmes International Labour Organization Working Group on Market Efficiency and Integration International Maritime Organization International Trade Centre United Nations Conference on Trade and Development United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs INTER-AGENCY United Nations Development Programme Resource Guide Resource United Nations Economic Commission for Africa [ United Nations Economic Commission for Europe United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean United Nations Environment Programme IMO UNRWA United Nations Human Settlements Programme United Nations Industrial Development Organization United Nations Relief and Works Agency for the Palestine Refugees in the Near East World Bank Group World Health Organization UNCTAD World Intellectual Property Organization World Trade Organization UNDESA ECLAC UNECA UNECE TRADE CAPACITY BUILDING TRADE CAPACITY BUILDING The information and the opinions herein are those of its authors, and do not necessarily reflect the official views or policies of any of the United Nations INTER-AGENCY organizations cooperating in the preparation of this publication. 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The mention of firm names or commercial products does not imply endorsement by any UN organization. 2008 This document has not been formally edited. 2008 Food and Agriculture Organization International Atomic Energy Agency ] UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM International Civil Aviation Organization Chief Executives Board for Coordination High Level Committee on Programmes International Labour Organization Working Group on Market Efficiency and Integration International Maritime Organization International Trade Centre United Nations Conference on Trade and Development United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs INTER-AGENCY United Nations Development Programme Resource Guide Resource United Nations Economic Commission for Africa [ United Nations Economic Commission for Europe United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean United Nations Environment Programme IMO UNRWA United Nations Human Settlements Programme United Nations Industrial Development Organization United Nations Relief and Works Agency for the Palestine Refugees in the Near East World Bank Group World Health Organization UNCTAD World Intellectual Property Organization World Trade Organization UNDESA ECLAC UNECA UNECE TRADE CAPACITY BUILDING TRADE CAPACITY BUILDING The information and the opinions herein are those of its authors, and do not necessarily reflect the official views or policies of any of the United Nations INTER-AGENCY organizations cooperating in the preparation of this publication. The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the [Resource Guide] Organizations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. The mention of firm names or commercial products does not imply endorsement by any UN organization. 2008 This document has not been formally edited. UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM Chief Executives Board for Coordination High Level Committee on Programmes Working Group on Market Efficiency and Integration TRADE CAPACITY BUILDING INTER-AGENCY [Resource Guide] UNITED NATIONS Vienna, 2008 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This Resource Guide is the result of a major collaborative effort among twenty-one organizations of the UN System. While UNIDO has coordinated the inter-agency work that led to this guide, only the numerous contributions of many colleagues from the participating organizations could transform the idea of the guide into reality. For the conceptualization of this Resource Guide, and in particular to propose a categorization framework, three UN System organiza- tions were mandated in the first inter-agency meeting in September 2006. The three were: ITC, with contributions from Siphana Sok, Osman Atac, Ashish Shah, Miguel Jiménez-Pont; UNECE, with contributions from Virginia Cram-Martos and Abdur Chowdhury; and UNIDO, with contributions from Steffen Kaeser, Muge Dolun and Juan Pablo Davila. The analytical work on the various services offered by the participating UN organizations, and in particular the introductory section and the overview of the services, draw on the contributions of Sheila Page, Senior Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), London. Many colleagues from the participating UN organizations and from inter-agency coordination bodies contributed to the Resource Guide, either directly through their responses to a questionnaire and the provision of background papers, or by commenting on and discussing the draft text. We are therefore grateful to all HLCP representatives, and all of those who shared their time, expertise and ideas, and have been invol- ved directly or indirectly in completing this Guide, in particular: FAO: Annika Soder and Ramesh Sharma; IAEA: Donatella Magliani, Syed Akbaruddin and Christine Nelima Okhoya; ICAO: Lise Boisvert; ILO: Maria Ducci, Christophe Perrin, David Lamotte and Susan Hayter; IMO: David T. Edwards; ITC: Siphana Sok, Osman Atac, Ashish Shah and Miguel Jiménez-Pont; UNCTAD: Taffere Tesfachew, Manuela Tortora, Raja Khalidi and Marina Pichollet; UNDESA: Patricio Civili and Nikhil Chandavarkar; UNDP: Alison Drayton, David Luke and Sabrina Varma; UNECA: Hakim Ben Hammouda, Cornelius T. Mwalwanda, and Abdulahi Mahamat; UNECE: Virginia Cram-Martos and Abdur Chowdhury; UNESCAP: Xuan Zengpei, Lorenzo Santucci, and Nanda Krairiksh; UNECLAC: Osvaldo Rosales and Mikio Kuwayama; UNEP: Juanita Castango, Hussein Abaza and Vera Weick; UN-HABITAT: Frederico T. Neto; UNRWA: Lex Takkenberg and Karina Nersesyan; WB: Oscar A. Avalle, John Panzer, Gianni Zanini, Julia Nielson and Mariem Malouche; WHO: Peter Mertens, Nicholas Draeger and Benedikte Dal; WIPO: Orbola Fasehun, Narendra K. Sabharwal and Carlos Mazal; WTO: Maarten Smeets; JITAP: Abdelkrim Ben Fadhl; GFP: Alina Monica Mustra; STDF: Melvin Spreij and Michael Roberts. The UNIDO team included: Agerico Lacanlale, Richard Kennedy and Kazuki Kitaoka of the Bureau for Organizational Strategy and Lear- ning, and Lalith Goonatilake, Steffen Kaeser, Muge Dolun, and Juan Pablo Davila from the Trade Capacity Building Branch, and Charles Arthur, UNIDO Consultant. Finally, the resource guide owes a great deal to the Chairman and Vice-chairman of HLCP, Lennart Båge and Mats Karlsson, whose lead- ership provided the inspiration for the participating organizations to work together and ‘deliver as one’. II TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS............................................................................................................................................... II ACRONYMS.............................................................................................................................................................. IV FOREWORD ............................................................................................................................................................. VII PREFACE................................................................................................................................................................. IX OVERVIEW .............................................................................................................................................................. 1 PROGRAMMES, SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES BY AREA OF INTERVENTION .............................................................................. 9 Global Advocacy .................................................................................................................................................. 11 Trade Policy Development...................................................................................................................................... 19 Legal and Regulatory Framework ............................................................................................................................ 35 Supply Capacity................................................................................................................................................... 47 Compliance Support Infrastructure and Services ........................................................................................................ 61 Trade Promotion Capacity Building.......................................................................................................................... 67 Market and Trade Information ................................................................................................................................ 69 Trade Facilitation................................................................................................................................................