Aid-for-trade monitoring EXERCISE
Joint communication by the WTO and OECD
Secretariats
Fifth Global Review of Aid for Trade:
Reducing Trade Costs for Inclusive, Sustainable Growth
1.1. Following a number of requests from delegations, the deadline for the
Aid-for-Trade monitoring and evaluation exercise has been extended to 31 January 2015.
1.2. Members will recall that the Aid-for-Trade monitoring and evaluation
exercise was jointly launched by WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo and OECD
Secretary-General Angel Gurría on 21 October 2014 (WT/COMTD/AFT/W/54).
1.3. This document serves as a reminder to delegations, and other
Aid-for-Trade stakeholders, to submit responses to the self-assessment
questionnaire and case story template – and to delegations to publicize this exercise
with their national private sector, academic and non‑governmental
organizations. Links to the electronic questionnaires and case story formats
for the Fifth Global Review monitoring exercise are reproduced in Annex 1
below.
1.4. To date, 61 completed self-assessment questionnaires have been
received: 37 from partner countries (including 18 least developed countries), three
from regional economic communities/transport corridors, 20 from donors
(including international governmental organizations), and one from South-South
partners. In addition, 30 case stories have also been submitted.
1.5. A list of respondents to the self-assessment questionnaire is
provided in Annex 2. This list compares those responses received from
delegations for the 2013 monitoring and evaluation exercise. A list of case
story submissions is provided in Annex 3.
ANNEX 1
lINKS TO MONITORING AND EVALUATION TEMPLATES
This information is also
available at: http://www.wto.org/aftmonitoring
questionnaires
Partner Country Questionnaire
English: https://www.research.net/s/PARTNER_COUNTRY_QUESTIONNAIRE_2015
French: https://www.research.net/s/QUESTIONNAIRE_PAYS_PARTENAIRE_2015
Spanish: https://www.research.net/s/CUESTIONARIO_PAIS_ASOCIADOS_2015
Regional
Economic Community/Transport Corridor Questionnaire
English: https://www.research.net/s/REC-TC_QUESTIONNAIRE_2015
French: https://www.research.net/s/QUESTIONNAIRE_CER-CT_2015
Spanish: https://www.research.net/s/CUESTIONARIO_CER-CT_2015
Donor Questionnaire
English: https://www.research.net/s/DONOR_QUESTIONNAIRE_2015
French: https://www.research.net/s/QUESTIONNAIRE_DONATEUR_2015
Spanish: https://www.research.net/s/CUESTIONARIO_DONANTE_2015
South-South
Partner Questionnaire
English: https://www.research.net/s/SOUTH_SOUTH_QUESTIONNAIRE_2015
French: https://www.research.net/s/QUESTIONNAIRE_SUD-SUD_2015
Spanish: https://www.research.net/s/CUESTIONARIO_SUR-SUR_2015
case story templates
Public Sector
Case Story Template
English: https://www.research.net/s/PUBLIC_SECTOR_CASE_STORY_2015
French: https://www.research.net/s/CAS_EXPERIENCE_SECTEUR_PUBLIQUE_2015
Spanish: https://www.research.net/s/CASO_EXPERIENCIA_SECTOR_PUBLICO_2015
Private Sector
Case Story Template
English: https://www.research.net/s/PRIVATE_SECTOR_CASE_STORY_2015
French: https://www.research.net/s/CAS_EXPERIENCE_SECTEUR_PRIVE_2015
Spanish: https://www.research.net/s/CASO_EXPERIENCIA_SECTOR_PRIVADO_2015
Academia/NGO
Case Story Template
English: https://www.research.net/s/ACADEMIA_NGO_CASE_STORY_2015
French: https://www.research.net/s/CAS_EXPERIENCE_ACADEMIQUE_ONG_2015
Spanish: https://www.research.net/s/CASO_EXPERIENCIA_ACADEMICA_ONG_2015
ANNEX 2
RESPONSES TO AID-FOR-TRADE self-assessment QUESTIONNAIRES
(As at 9
January 2015)
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Overall Total
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Partner Country
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LDCs
|
REC/Transport Corridors
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Donors (including IGOs)
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South-South
|
|
Questionnaires 2015
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61
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37
|
18
|
3
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20
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1
|
|
Questionnaires 2013
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132
|
80
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36
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N/A
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43
|
9
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PARTNER-COUNTRIES
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REGION
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REPLIES TO
QUESTIONNAIRE
2015
|
REPLIES TO
QUESTIONNAIRE
2013
|
|
Africa
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Botswana; Central African Republic; Congo, Dem. Rep. of;
Côte d'Ivoire; The Gambia; Guinea; Lesotho; Malawi; Mali; Mauritius;
Nigeria; Rwanda; Senegal; Togo; Tunisia; Zimbabwe
|
Benin; Botswana; Burkina Faso; Burundi; Cape Verde;
Central African Republic; Chad; Comoros; Congo, Dem. Rep. of; Côte d'Ivoire;
Djibouti; Ethiopia; Gabon; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Kenya; Lesotho; Liberia;
Madagascar; Malawi; Mali; Mauritania; Mauritius; Morocco; Mozambique; Niger;
Nigeria; Rep. of Congo; Rwanda; Senegal; Sudan; Tanzania; Togo; Tunisia;
Uganda; Zambia; Zimbabwe
|
|
ARAB AND
Middle East
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Yemen
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Jordan; Oman;
Yemen
|
|
ASIA AND
PACIFIC
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Bangladesh; Cambodia; Lao
PDR; Nepal; Papua New Guinea; Solomon Islands; Tonga; Vanuatu
|
Bangladesh; Bhutan; Cambodia; Fiji; India;
Indonesia; Nepal; Pakistan; Papua New Guinea; Samoa; Tuvalu[1]; Vanuatu
|
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CENTRAL AND
EASTERN EUROPE AND CENTRAL Asia
|
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Afghanistan; Turkey
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LATIN America AND THE CARIBBEAN
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Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador;
Grenada; Guatemala; Haiti; Honduras; Mexico; Panama; Peru; St. Lucia; St. Vincent
& the Grenadines
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Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Barbados; Belize;
Colombia; Costa Rica; Dominica; Dominican Republic; El Salvador;
Grenada; Guatemala; Haiti; Honduras; Jamaica, Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama;
Paraguay; Peru; St. Kitts and Nevis; St. Lucia; St. Vincent
and the Grenadines; Suriname; Trinidad and Tobago; Uruguay
|
|
LDCs
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Bangladesh; Burkina Faso; Central African
Republic; Congo, Dem. Rep. of; The Gambia; Guinea; Haiti; Lao PDR;
Lesotho; Malawi; Mali; Nepal; Rwanda; Senegal; Solomon Islands; Togo; Vanuatu;
Yemen
|
Afghanistan; Bangladesh; Benin; Bhutan; Burkina
Faso; Burundi; Cambodia; Central African Republic; Chad; Comoros; Congo, Dem.
Rep. of; Djibouti; Ethiopia; Gambia; Guinea; Haiti; Lesotho; Liberia;
Madagascar; Malawi; Mali; Mauritania; Mozambique; Nepal; Niger; Rwanda;
Samoa; Senegal; Sudan; Tanzania; Togo; Tuvalu[2];
Uganda; Vanuatu; Yemen; Zambia
|
Regional
economic community/transport corridor
|
REPLIES TO
QUESTIONNAIRE
2015
|
REPLIES TO
QUESTIONNAIRE
2013
|
|
NCTTCA; OECS; SIECA
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N/A
|
DONORS
|
|
REPLIES TO QUESTIONNAIRE
2015
|
REPLIES TO QUESTIONNAIRE
2013
|
|
BILATERAL DONORS
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Canada; Czech Republic;
Denmark; Finland;
France; Germany; Hungary; Ireland; Japan; Korea; Netherlands; Switzerland; Chinese
Taipei; United Kingdom
|
Australia; Austria; Belgium; Bulgaria;
Canada; Czech Republic; Denmark, EU; Finland; France; Germany; Greece;
Ireland; Italy; Japan; Korea; Lithuania; Netherlands; New Zealand; Norway;
Portugal; Singapore; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Chinese Taipei; UK; US
|
|
IGOs
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AfDB;
EBRD; IsDB; UNDP; UNIDO; World Bank Group
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AfDB;
EBRD; EIF; FAO; IaDB; IMF; IsDB; ITC; UNCTAD; UNDP; UNECA; UNECE; UNIDO;
World Bank; WTO
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SOUTH-SOUTH
PARTNERS
|
|
REPLIES TO
QUESTIONNAIRE
2015
|
REPLIES TO
QUESTIONNAIRE
2013
|
|
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Chile
|
Chile; China, Colombia;
Costa Rica; Indonesia; Mauritius; Mexico; Morocco; Oman
|
ANNEX 3
submission of case stories
(As at 9
January 2015)
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|
Overall Total
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Partner Country
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LDCs
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Donors (including IGOs)
|
South-South
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RECS/
Transport Corridors
|
Private Sector
|
Academia/
NGO/Other
|
|
Case Stories 2015
|
30
|
7
|
2
|
10
|
–
|
1
|
7
|
5
|
Public sector
|
CASE STORY SUBMITTED
BY
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CASE STORY TITLE
|
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Canada
|
Canada-Americas Trade-Related Technical
Assistance Program
|
|
Chinese Taipei
|
ICT Technical Cooperation Project (Belize)
|
|
Ecuador
|
Studies and Construction of the Bi-National Border Service
Center (CEBAF) in
Huaquillas
|
|
Ecuador
|
Construction of the New Rumichaca International
Bridge and Structural Overhaul of
the Old Bridge
|
|
Ecuador
|
Integrated Regional Project for Progressive Control of Foot-and-Mouth
Disease in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador,
Colombia and Venezuela
|
|
France
|
Trade Capacity-Building Programme (PRCC)
|
|
Japan
|
The Project on Capacity
Building for the
Customs Administrations of the Eastern African Region (Phase 2) and the
Project on Capacity Development for International Trade Facilitation in the
Eastern African Region (Phase 3)
|
|
Korea
|
The Project for the Modernization of
Tanzania Customs Administration
|
|
Lesotho
|
Technical Assistance on Trade
Facilitation - Lesotho
|
|
Northern Corridor Transit and
Transport Coordination Authority (NCTTCA)
|
Northern Corridor Performance Monitoring
through the Transport Observatory Portal (TOP)
|
|
Tanzania
|
Formation of Joint Border Committee
Project
|
|
TradeMark East Africa
|
Rwanda Electronic Single Window
|
|
TradeMark East Africa
|
Trade Facilitation through the Uganda Revenue Authority Customs
Business Systems Enhancement Project (CBSEP)
|
|
Tunisia
|
Single Window for Information and Communications Technology
|
|
Tunisia
|
Telecommunications Study
and Research Centre Testing Laboratories (CERT LABs)
|
|
UNIDO
|
Reducing Trade Costs, Need for Re-Testing, Re-Inspection and Re‑Certification
Abroad through the Development of a Robust National Quality Infrastructure
(NQI) in Malawi
|
|
UNIDO
|
Ensuring Quality and Sustainability along
the Coffee Value Chain in Burundi
|
|
United Kingdom
|
Trade Facilitation through the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) Customs
Business Systems Enhancement Project (CBSEP)
|
|
World Bank Group
|
FYR
Macedonia Pioneering Risk-Based Border Inspections in the Western Balkans
|
|
World Bank Group
|
Increasing
the Competitiveness and Expanding Exports of Cambodian Rice: Results from Collaboration
by the Royal Government of Cambodia, the Domestic Private Sector, and
the World Bank Group
|
PRIVATE SECTOR
|
CASE STORY SUBMITTED
BY
|
CASE STORY TITLE
|
|
Aquatest, Czech Republic
|
Manual and Database Design for Geohazard
Identification and Risk Assessment for Infrastructure and Human Protection
|
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Gambia Horticultural
Enterprises Ltd., The Gambia
|
New Life for MP Farm
|
|
GraphicPeople Limited,
Bangladesh
|
Working With Microsoft: Windows 8 Digital
Launch Campaign
|
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Nascenia Limited, Bangladesh
|
Branding – A Major Challenge to Connect
with Global Value Chain
|
|
Trade Facilitation Office,
Canada
|
The Peru Canada Trade and Branding Initiative (PCTBI)
|
|
Vanderlande, Netherlands
|
ONE-company concept
|
|
Vítkovice Machinery Group,
Czech Republic
|
Aid for Trade - Czech Republic - Ethiopia: Trade Development Support
in Machinery Field through Czech Know-How Transfer
|
ACADEMIA/ngo
|
CASE STORY SUBMITTED
BY
|
CASE STORY TITLE
|
|
CUTS International, India
|
Trade Facilitation, Trade Costs and Inclusive Development A Case Story
of Attari-Wagah Border of India and Pakistan
|
|
Trade Facilitation Office,
Canada
|
Economic Empowerment through Trade: Empowering Peruvian Mango
Exporters in Export Readiness; Building capability to Access the Canadian Market
and to Build and Maintain Importer Relationships. The Export of Organic
Peruvian Mangoes to Canada
|
|
University Academic Teacher,
El Salvador
|
The Customs Unification in Central
America, based on the Mesoamerica Region Project
|
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[1] Neither WTO Member nor Observer.
[2] Neither WTO Member nor Observer.