Capacity Building of ESCAP Member States for Managing Globalization

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Short description

Successive trade liberalizations through multilateral, regional and bilateral negotiations have been opening up market access for many of the developing countries in the ESCAP region. To derive maximum benefit from these liberalizations, the adoption and implementation of trade facilitation measures are essential to improve the trade performance and competitiveness. There is, therefore, growing awareness of the need to systematically apply trade facilitation measures and tools. The application of information and communication technologies (ICT) has been recognized as the key to trade facilitation, raising overall efficiency not only in physical trading of goods and services but also in global networking. Benefits from the efficient trading system, including the reduction in transaction costs and time, can be significant, particularly for landlocked countries to increase efficiency and competitiveness of their trade.

Type

Capacity building

URL

http://www.unescap.org/tid/projects/cbmg.asp

Topics

A Business Prospective on Capacity Building for Trade Facilitation , Admission of electronic documents , Aligned Trade Documents , Border Agency Modernization , Building TTF Partnerships , Electronic commerce and business , Electronic standards/EDI , Other Trade Facilitation Aspects , Regional Partnerships , Streamlining and harmonization , Use of ICT for Facilitation , WCO Columbus Program

Goals

To assist the participating countries increase trade efficiency through the adoption and implementation of trade facilitation measures and ICT application.

Scope and activities

To realize the objective, the project assisted developing countries to:

• build national capacity for trade facilitation and electronic commerce;
• identify problems and bottlenecks in trade procedures and practices;
• promote the application of trade facilitation measures for rationalization and harmonization of trade procedures and practices;
• promote the application of ICT;
• consider establishing integrated national electronic trade documentation system.

Start / End date

from Mar 31, 2002 to Mar 31, 2004

Status

Past

Type of funding

Grant

Lead Partners

United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP)

Geographic coverage

Regions: Asia
Countries: Turkmenistan , Uzbekistan , Tajikistan , Georgia , Kyrgyzstan , Mongolia , Kazakhstan , Azerbaijan , Armenia
Global: No

Fully online

No

Selected Activity

No