UNIDO Trade Capacity Building Approach

The UNIDO Trade Capacity Building Initiative has been adopted as a contribution to the DOHA Development Agenda. Despite ongoing efforts, developing countries and especially Least Developed Countries (LDCs) still remain excluded from the growing international trade. They do not reap the possible benefits to boost their economies and consequently reduce poverty. Tariff barriers as well as technical barriers to trade have to be removed. Better integration in world trade requires, above all, the development of supply capacity, conformity assessment, infrastructure, negotiating capacity and harmonized trade procedures.

UNIDO's aim is to enable developing countries to rapidly establish the necessary physical and institutional infrastructure to satisfy the technical requirements of the Multilateral Trading System. For integrated technical assistance and capacity building actions, UNIDO has developed the 3-Cs Trade Capacity Building Approach, focusing on the areas of: