4. AFT Documents

A. Official Documents from several organisations

WTO

Symposium on Monitoring and Evaluation: Identifying Indicators for Monitoring Aid for Trade (2 September 2008)
Background Note prepared by the WTO Secretariat in collaboration with IGOs represented on the Director-General's Advisory Group on Aid for Trade

2008 Aid-for-Trade Roadmap Annotated Update 23 July 2008

Committee on Trade and Development (CTD) Sessions and other Aid-for-Trade related Events/Meetings (July 2008)

General Council - Minutes of Meeting - Held in the Centre William Rappard on 21 November 2007 - Annual Debate on Aid for Trade (December 2007)

Focus Africa – Report and recommendations prepared by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the African Development Bank (AfDB), and the World Trade Organization (WTO) (November 2007)

Focus Asia and the Pacific – Report and recommendations prepared by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) (November 2007)

Focus Latin America and the Caribbean – Report and recommendations prepared by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) (November 2007)

The  Integrated Framework for Least Developed Countries (LDCs):  How does it fit into Aid for Trade? (September 2007)

The DG’s Report to the General Council, JOB(06)267 (December 2006)

The DG’s Report on Aid for Trade to the General Council (July 2006)

The Aid for Trade Task Force Recommendations, WT/AFT/1 (July 2006)

Paragraph 57 of the Hong Kong Ministerial Declaration (December 2005)

OECD

Evaluating Aid for Trade: Proposals for Further Work (inglés)

OECD Background Note on Aid for Trade

Donor Questionnaire on Aid for Trade

Partner Country Questionnaire on Aid for Trade

Key Elements of Best Practice in Aid for Trade

Key Elements of OECD and WTO Road Map on Aid for Trade, OECD-WTO Monitoring

Issues for Discussion: Designing the 2008 Partner Questionnaire

Aid for Trade Factsheet, Least Developed Countries (LDC)

Effective Aid-for-Trade Partnerships: Local Accountability and Global Review COM/DCD/(2006)4/REV1 (1^st June 2006)

The Development Dimension: Aid for Trade, Making it Effective (2006)

WTO/OECD

Aid for Trade at a Glance 2007 (November 2007)

UNIDO

Trade Capacity Building Inter-Agency Resource Guide 2008

A Practical Contribution for Aid for Trade (2007)

Vienna Ministerial Declaration of the LDCs (2007)

Issue Paper: How Can “Aid-for-trade” Transform LDCs?
Least Developed Countries (LDC) Ministerial Conference, 29-30 November 2007, Vienna

How Can "Aid-For-Trade" Transform Least Developed Countries?
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 3-4 September 2007

African Union

The Addis Ababa African Union Trade Ministers Declaration on WTO Trade Negotiations (January 2007)

Recommendations by the Commission of the African Union on the Aid for Trade Initiative, endorsed by the 4th Ordinary Session of African Trade Ministers from 12-14 April 2006

IMF and World Bank

Aid for Trade: Harnessing the Global Economy for Economic Development
Report prepared by the staff of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank (21 September 2007)

Trade Progress Report: The Doha Development Agenda and Aid for Trade: Hong Kong and Beyond (7 April 2006)

Doha Development Agenda and Aid for Trade Corrigendum (22 September 2005)

Aid Financing and Aid Effectiveness
Note prepared by the staff of the World Bank with contributions from the staff of the IMF (16 September 2005)

Doha Development Agenda and Aid for Trade (9 September 2005)

Aid for Trade: Competitiveness and Adjustment
Joint Note by the Staffs of the IMF and the World Bank (12 April 2005)

UNCTAD

UNCTAD’s G-24 Discussion Paper Series
Aid for Trade: Cool Aid or Kool-Aid? by Sam Laird (November 2007)
The potential impact of the Aid for Trade Initiative by Sheila Page (April 2007)

Erosion of trade preferences in the post-Honk Kong framework: From «trade is better than aid» to «aid for trade»

B. AITIC Documents on Aid for Trade

Report on the Joint AITIC/OECD Workshop: Aid for Trade Self-Assessment Questionnaire – Challenges for Developing Countries (7 April 2008, 15.00-18.00, Room B, Conference Centre Varembé)

The Aid for Trade Questionnaire – An AITIC Discussion Note

Report on the Global Aid for Trade Review and General Council Session (19-21 November 2007, WTO)

Aid for Trade Report: On the Road to the Global Review (November 2007)

AITIC Consultative Meeting: Aid for Trade and Enhanced Integrated Framework, Geneva, 22 February 2007, Edited Transcript of Statement by Mr C. Michalopoulos (AITIC Consultant)

An AITIC information note summarising the Task Force recommendations and the state of play of making them operational (February 2007)

The AITIC Background Note “Aid for Trade: A Moving Target” describes the origins of the initiative and outlines proposals from bilateral and multilateral donors as well as potential recipients (April 2006)

C. Bilateral Donors Documents

Finland’s Aid for Trade Action Plan (2008–2011)

Norway’s Action Plan on Aid for Trade, WTO General Council meeting, Geneva, 20 November 2007

European Union

Aid for Trade monitoring report 2008 (April 2008)

EU Strategy on Aid for Trade: Enhancing EU support for trade-related needs in developing countries (October 2007)

Europe's Aid for Trade Pledge (October 2007)

Conclusions of the Council and the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States Meeting within the Council on Aid for Trade (May 2007)

Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament: EU Code of Conduct on Division of labour in Development Policy (February 2007)

Towards an EU Aid for Trade strategy – the Commission's contribution
Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions (2007)

Issue Paper for Consultation (February 2007)
European Commission contribution to An EU Aid for Trade Strategy

D. NGO Perspectives on Aid for Trade

The Opportunities and Risks of Aid for Trade, Christian Aid briefing

The Realities of EC “Aid for Trade” Support in Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland – Lessons for the EPA Negotiations
A paper by the Inter-Church Organisation for Development Cooperation (ICCO)

The BLNS Experience of EC EPA-Related Adjustment Support and the “Aid for Trade” Debate – Moving Beyond Business as Usual
ICCO Paper

E. Other Relevant Documents

Accra Agenda for Action (July 2008)

2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (March 2005)

A paper prepared for the UK Department for International Development (DFID): Enhancing the Integrated Framework: a New Approach, Mr Constantine Michalopoulos (november 2005)

 

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