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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

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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