Session 7 International trade for development: from policy to practice

7.1 Implementing trade facilitation:
Consider the implications of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement, EU FTAs/EPAs and other trade agreements for the effective design and implementation of trade facilitation programmes, including in coordination with other donors.

Reference documents: 

- WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement
- European Commission (2017), European Commission Support for Trade Facilitation
 

7.2 Promoting quality infrastructure:
The importance of market driven approaches. Presentation of insights from selected cases addressing quality infrastructure

- UNIDO (2018), Quality Policy: A Practical Tool

- DCED (2014) Supporting Business Environment Reforms: Practical Guidance for Development Agencies - Annex: Supporting Quality Infrastructure in Developing and Transitional Economies, DCED 2014

 - DCED (2015) Leveraging the Impact of Business Environment Reform: The Contribution of Quality Infrastructure. Lessons from Practice, DCED Working Paper, 2014/ updated 2015

- ACP-EU TBT Programme (2017) Case study - Quality Infrastructure
 

7.3 Regional integration dimension: 
Highlight the EU approach to regional integration, key synergies and main challenges in practices

- ECDPM Dossier: The political economy of regional integration in Africa (PERIA)

- ECDPM, The political economy dynamics of regional organisations in Africa: project and interactive online tool

- Byiers, B., Vanheukelom, J. (2016), A ‘how to’ note – Doing regional development differently. A political economy analysis framework for identifying drivers and constraints to regional integration. Maastricht: ECDPM.

- Herrero Cangas, A., Gregersen, C. (2016), Supporting effective regional integration? What the 11th EDF programming tells us, ECDPM Briefing Note 89.

- UNECA (2017), Transforming African economies through smart trade and industrial policy, October 2017

- UNECA (2017), Assessing Regional Integration in Africa VIII: Bringing the Continental Free Trade Area About. October 2017

7.4 Integrated approach to trade and donor cooperation:
Fostering an integrated approach to trade for development, in synergy with other development actors