UNDP

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UNDPs Trade Work

• OVERVIEW
• Inclusive Globalisation Context
• UNDP response
• Regional programmes
• Global programmes
• Geneva Trade and HD Unit
• David Luke
• Senior Adviser and Coordinator
• Trade and Human Development Unit

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Inclusive Globalisation - Context

• Experience of last few decades
• Technological progress, economic and financial
  globalisation, higher productivity
• But increasing income inequality across and
  within countries with significant differentiation
  in development outcomes risk of missing MDGs
• Supply side constraints
• HD concerns including current financial, energy,
  food crisis and Doha Round unresolved issues
  recent despite strong growth

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UNDP response

• Stronger anlytical and substantive role since the
  late 1990s
• Book, Making Global Trade Work for People (2002)
• Globalisation benefitting the poor service line
  2004-7 MYFF in context also of MDG achievement
  scale-up
• Geneva THDU established 2004
• CB/HD mandate and on-the-ground presence
• Capacity to compete internationally by overcoming
  supply side bottlenecks
• Capacity to negotiate, inteprete and implement
  trade agreements and prioritize HD concerns
• Capacity to incorporate pro-poor development
  centred trade policies in national development
  /poverty reduction strategies
• Confirmed in new 2008-11 Strategic Plan

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UNDP response regional trade programmes
Asia-Pacific

• Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Initiative
  (APTII) - three phases
• 2002-4 substantive linkages between trade and HD
• 2005-7 support to MDG achievement through
  analytical and policy advisory services, training
  and knowledge products investment policy,
  competitiveness and trade agreements
• 2008-11 focus on competitiveness, employment and
  gender sensitive policies, pro-poor regional
  cooperation and integration

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UNDP response regional trade programmes - Africa

• Trade Capacity Development for Sub-Saharan Africa
  2004-7 (next phase under formulation) with
  extensive partnerships and focus on effective
  linkages between trade and poverty reduction
  initiatives, reinforcing negotiating capacities
• Regional Integration support project launched in
  2007 focusing on research, anlysis and policy
  advice

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UNDP responseregional trade programmesEastern
Europe and Central Asia

• Focus on HDIA of trade policy since 2003
• CB needs assessment
• Mainstreaming trade in national
  transition/poverty reduction/and development
  strategies

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UNDP response regional trade programmes
Middle-East

• Arab Initiative on Trade, Human Development and
  Economic Governance since 2007
• Aimed at CB for trade policy analyis in response
  to global and regional challenges

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UNDP response global programmes

• Integrated Framework/Enhanced IF
• Diagnostics/updates
• Coordination for in-country activities
• Upstream policy and capacity building support
• Mainstreaming
• Programmatic approach to aid delivery and
  coordination evolving CEB cluster role
• Manual on EIF modus operandi
• Ongoing IFTF function until 2011

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UNDP response global programmes

• Aid for Trade
• Diagnostics e.g. BRC Central Asia/ SACU
• Mainstreaming
• Programmatic approach to aid delivery and
  coordination evolving CEB cluster role
• WTO Advisory Group
• OECD TWG
• AfT Guidebook in two versions
• UNDPs own AfT portfolio estimated at 110m in
  three of six AfT categories TPR, TD, BPSC

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UNDP response Geneva THDU

• UNDP corporate resource on trade and HD
• Knowledge hub and services current examples
• Coordination with CEB Trade and Productive
  Capacity Cluster
• Support to the global programmes for trade
  capacity development
• Aid for trade (AfT)
• (Enhanced) Integrated Framework (IF)

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Thank you

• Further information - david.luke_at_undp.org