New Zealand Assistance to the Pacific

Trade Policy Making

The Context

• NZ Aid budget: Approx US$350m

• Focus on the Pacific and ‘sustainable economic development’

• Greater economic integration in the region: PICTA, EPA negotiations, PACER Plus

New Zealand Assistance

• Aid for Trade

• Trade capacity and market access– Increase market access and linking producers to markets– Improving trade facilitation– Improving understanding of trade policy issues

Support for Trade Policy

• Funding of Office of the Chief Trade Adviser (OCTA)

• Bilateral support to Vanuatu Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment

• Other stakeholders– Customs, Fisheries & Agriculture (FAO annual roundtable

for PICs including private sector participation)– Programmes to enhance PIC national level dialogue

Summary

• Importance of mainstreaming – to ensure informed policy development– to enable donors to better respond to Aid for Trade priorities– to ensure local ownership

Thank you

Jan Bailey

New Zealand Permanent Mission, Geneva