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Q1 Donor Country (or headquarters location in the caseof Organizations)

UNDP, headquartered in the UNITED STATES

Q2 About you

Name Rosemary Kalapurakal

Position Director a.i., Sustainable Development (InclusiveGrowth)

Ministry or Organization UNDP

Email Address [email protected]

Q3 Do you have an Aid-for-trade strategy? No

Q4 If yes, please indicate your Aid-for-Tradepriorities:Below are listed the most common priorityareas grouped according to broad Aid-for-Tradecategories. Please rank the top 5 priority areas amongthe ones listed below.(1 being the most important)

Respondent skipped this question

Q5 If no or unsure, does your development policyinclude trade priorities?

Yes

Q6 If yes, please indicate the trade priorities in your development policy.Below are listed the most commonpriority areas grouped according to broad Aid-for-Trade categories. Please rank the top 5 priority areas amongthe ones listed below. (1 being the most important)

Connecting to value chains 1

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Export diversification 1

Industrialization 3

2

2

Regional integration

Other areas including: MSMEs, women's economicempowerment, Youth issues etc. (please specify)

Please specify further the priorities that you selected above aswell as the main problems/obstacles encountered in furtheringthem and provide a weblink to the relevant strategy.:

UNDP’s policy direction and priorities are defined in its Strategic Plan with the latest adopted by UNDP’s Executive Board in November 2017 for the period 2018-2021.

The Strategic Plan defines three development settings that require different forms of support; mainly: i) Eradicate poverty in all its forms and dimensions; ii) Accelerate structural transformation for sustainable development; and iii) Build resilience to shocks and crises; and six signature solutions which represent integrated responses to the complex and multidimensional challenges faced by countries.

These signature solutions are: i) Keeping people out of poverty; ii) Strengthening effective, inclusive and accountable governance; iii) Enhancing national prevention and recovery capacities for resilient societies; iv) Promoting nature-based solutions for sustainable planet; v) Closing the energy gap; and vi) Strengthening gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.

The delivery of UNDP’s support, inclusive of signature solutions, will be done though country support platforms. These platforms will help countries co-design solutions to complex development problems with the support of partners form the UN, academia, civil society, private sector, etc. Building upon UNDP’s Strategic Plan 2018-2021 which aims at galvanizing the private sector’s contribution to realizing the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs, UNDP adopted a Private Sector Development and Partnerships Strategy (2018-2021): Making Markets Work for the SDGs. The Strategy seeks to enhance the private sector’s role as a key actor in realizing the SDGs and to promote the alignment of all business strategies and operations with the SDGs.

More concretely, the Strategy identifies three strategic priorities for UNDP’s work on private sector: i) Unlocking private finance for the SDGs;ii) Aligning business strategies and operations with the SDGs; and iii) Putting in place policies that foster inclusive and green economies. These priorities will be implemented through programmes at the global, regional and country level through a combination of service offers that best respond to the country context. Trade-related support priorities by UNDP are best articulated at this level where a number of service offers contribute to trade-related outcomes.

These include for instance, Policies and productive capacities for sustainable value chains and inclusive business; The private sector and gender equality; Transforming MSMEs towards the SDGs; Government policies that provide an enabling environment for doing business and shape sustainable business and investment practices; and Improving livelihoods at the

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bottom of the pyramid through inclusive business. With respect to women empowerment, it is worth mentioning UNDP’s Gender equality strategy 2018-2021 which outlines UNDP’s contribution to gender equality throughout its programmatic work in response to the 2030 Agenda, as well as institutional reforms and targets within UNDP towards achieving gender equality.

The Strategy (the third of this nature in UNDP) understands gender equality as a precondition and accelerator for achieving the SDGs and adopts a two-prone approach for advancing gender equality: supporting women empowerment through gender-specific interventions and integrating gender concerns across all UNDP does. The Strategy articulates entry points for the realization of the Strategic Plan’s Signature Solution on Strengthening gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls across all development settings.

Specifically on trade-related support and empowerment, examples of areas of intervention foreseen in the Strategy illustrate the linkages: support partners to invest in critical infrastructure such as water and sanitation, and clean and affordable energy, safe roads, gender-responsive public spaces and services, such as markets and transportation; supporting legal and policy reforms to close the gender wage gap, lift formal and informal barriers to women’s access to certain occupations and educational fields, and strengthen women’s legal protection from workplace discrimination and rights violations; support partner’s efforts to expand women’s access to, control and ownership of land, property and finance as well as partnerships in new micro- SMEs enterprises established on green and inclusive value chains; supporting partners to expand women’s opportunities for decent work and advance gender equality in the public and private sector; designing market-based employment and livelihood opportunities in crisis and post-crisis settings that do not reinforce gender stereotypes and that benefit women and girls by providing them with skills and opportunities for decent work and sustainable employment and by preventing gender-based violence, etc. In relation to youth empowerment, UNDP’s Youth Strategy 2014-2017 guides the organization’s interventions across thematic areas.

The Strategy takes a holistic approach aimed at supporting young people as a positive force for transformational change. It foresees contributions towards three outcomes:(i) increased economic empowerment of youth; (ii) enhanced youth civic engagement and participation in decision-making and political processes and institutions; and (iii) strengthened youth engagement in resilience building. The economic empowerment of youth, especially young women, involves promoting an environment conducive to job creation for youth; promoting employment and livelihood opportunities for young people and access to social protection enhancing their skills through formal and non-formal skill development opportunities and entrepreneurship; facilitating access to finance and to markets, among others. A global programme encapsulating the tenets of the youth strategy runs through 2020. Finally, UNDP takes guidance from the UN Strategy on Youth launched in September 2018.

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Q7 Has your Aid-for-Trade strategy, or trade prioritiesin your development policy, changed since 2016?

Yes,Please specify further and include a weblink to the relevant development strategy.:

In November 2017, UNDP’s Executive Board adopted a new Strategic Plan for the period 2018-2021. A new Private Sector Development and Partnership Strategy: Making Markets work for the SDGs for the same period was formulated, to facilitate the implementation of the Strategic Plan.

Please refer to Question 5 for more information on both and their coverage of trade-related issues. In terms of changes to trade priorities, a sharper focus is foreseen on inclusiveness of women and youth as well as environmental sustainability as cross cutting and specific purpose interventions throughout UNDP’s programmes.

Q8 If yes, please rank the top 3 drivers of these changes :(Please choose no more than 3 options)

2030 Sustainable Development Goals 1

2

3

Economic diversification

MSMEs growth and development objectives

Additional information on the top 3 drivers of changes in yourAid-for-Trade priorities since 2016.:

The main driver of change in UNDP’s priorities is the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the SDGs. UNDP’s new Strategic Plan (2018-2021) which charts the way of UNDP’s contribution to the realization of the Agenda, recognizes the significant role to be played by private sector actors in sustainable development.

This led in turn, to the formulation of a new Strategy for Private Sector Development and Partnerships (2018-2021) which articulates among others, UNDP’s support to partner countries around service offers such as: Policies and productive capacities for sustainable value chains and inclusive business;

The private sector and gender equality; Transforming MSMEs towards the SDGs; Government policies that provide an enabling environment for doing business and shape sustainable business and investment practices; and Improving livelihoods at the bottom of the pyramid through inclusive business.



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Q9 Have these changes been reflected in yourdialogue with partner countries and developmentinstitutions?

Yes

Q10 Please provide names, titles, references or weblinks to policy documents relevant to Aid for Trade in yourcountry.

- UNDP Strategic Plan 2018-2021- http://strategicplan.undp.org/- UNDP Private Sector Development and Partnerships Strategy (2018-2021): Making Markets work for the SDGs (Not yet availableon-line)- UNDP Gender Equality Strategy 2018-2021 - http://undocs.org/DP/2018/21- UNDP Youth Strategy 2014-2017: Empowered youth, sustainable Future -http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/librarypage/democratic-governance/youthstrategy.html- Youth2030: The United Nations Strategy on Youth - https://www.un.org/youthenvoy/youth-un/- UNDP Green Commodities Programme - http://www.greencommodities.org/content/gcp/en/home.html- Agribusiness supplier Development Programme (ASDP) - http://www.africa.undp.org/content/rba/en/home/about-us/AFIM/overview/ASDP.html- Aid for Trade Project in Central Asia - http://www.eurasia.undp.org/content/rbec/en/home/ourwork/sustainable-development/development-planning-and-inclusive-sustainable-growth/farmers-and-entrepreneurs/- Support to Economic Regional Integration in the Arab States -- UNDP Regional Private Sector Work in Africa - http://www.arabstates.undp.org/content/rbas/en/home/about-us/regional-hub/our-regional-programme.html - http://www.africa.undp.org/content/rba/en/home/about-us/AFIM.html- Malawi Innovation Challenge Fund - http://www.micf.mw/

Q11 Is economic diversification a priority in yourdevelopment or Aid-for-Trade strategy?

Yes

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Q12 What are the main constraints to economicdiversification identified that your development or Aid-for-Trade strategy seek to address?(You may tick morethan 1 box)

High inputcosts

,

High tradecosts

,

Limited access to tradefinance

,

Limited agricultural productioncapacity

,

Limited standardscompliance

,

Low levels of training andskills

,

Other, (pleasespecify)

,

Additional information on the main constraints to economicdiversification as identified in your Aid-for-Trade strategy.:

Other constraints to economic diversification UNDP'ssupport seeks to address is the lack of information bysmall businesses about market opportunities and trends forfuture growth (market intelligence).

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Q13 Please indicate in which category(ies) of aid-for-trade financing you provide aid- for- trade support foreconomic diversification.(You may tick more than 1 boxand/or leave boxes unticked if you do receive support)

Trade policy and regulations (Including training oftrade officials, analysis of proposals and positionsand their impact, support for national stakeholders toarticulate commercial interest and identify trade-offs,dispute issues, institutional and technical support tofacilitate implementation of trade agreements and toadapt to and comply with rules and standards),

Trade policy and administrativemanagement

,

Trade facilitation,

Regional trade agreements(RTAs)

,

Multilateral tradenegotiations

,

Trade education/training,

Trade development (Including investment promotion,analysis and institutional support for trade in services,business support services and institutions, public-private sector networking, e-commerce, trade finance,trade promotion, market analysis and development),

Business support services,

Banking and financialservices

,

Building productivecapacity

,

Agriculture,

Industry

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Q14 Does the aid-for-trade support you provide foreconomic diversification align with partners' prioritiesas established in their national or regional trade anddevelopment strategy(ies)?

Yes,

Alignment of development support with nationaldevelopment priorities, trade-related or otherwise, is afundamental programmatic principle for UNDP. Examplesof alignment of UNDP support to national developmentpriorities include the Aid for Trade interventions inTajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan which support theimplementation of these countries’ trade strategies. Inaddition, an important area of UNDP’s Aid for tradeprogrammes provide upstream policy support to partnercountries which involves financial and technical assistancefor the formulation of trade and sectoral policies, and theidentification of policy priorities. One example of this typeof work is UNDP’s partnerships with LDCs for theformulation of the Diagnostic Trade Integration Studies(DTIS) under the EIF.

Additional information on how the aid-for-trade support youprovide for economic diversification aligns with thepriorities established in partners national or regional tradeand development strategy(ies).:

Q15 Has the aid-for-trade support you provide ineconomic diversification recorded progress in partnercountries since the launch of the Aid-for-Trade initiativein 2006?

Yes

Q16 If yes please specify, in which area(s):(You maytick more than 1 box)

Exportdiversification

,

Other, (pleasespecify)

,

Additional information on the progress that yourgovernment has recorded in economic diversification sincethe launch of the Aid-for-Trade initiative in 2006.:

Employment creation including for women; businessexpansion and sustainability; increased trade; marketdiversification; policy formulation;


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Q17 If yes, please also indicate in which sector(s):(Youmay tick more than 1 box)

Agriculture,

Industry,

Additional information on the sector(s) where progress ineconomic diversification has been made.:

Two examples include: Job creation and trade expansionin Tajikistan at the following link:https://undpeurasia.exposure.co/jobs-grow-on-apricot-trees?locale=en%2Fguidelines%2Ffor-sportscategoriescategories%2Fsynchro%3Fembed%3Dtrue%3Fmore%3Dtrue%3Fmore%3Dtrue?more=true InUzbekistan, a project evaluation noted the positive impactof support provided. One example includes a smallbusiness venture which three years after receiving supportfrom the project expanded its business, employment andtrainee staff. It also internationalized expanding sales toRussia. See Wider Europe: Aid for Trade for Central Asia,South Caucasus and Western CIS (Phase II). Final ProjectEvaluation, April 2016, p. 61, athttps://erc.undp.org/evaluation/documents/detail/9586

Q18 In which category(ies) of Aid for Trade is thesupport you provide impactful for economicdiversification?(You may tick more than 1 box and/orleave boxes unticked if you do not receive support)


,



Agriculture

Q19 What factors contribute to the success of the aid-for-trade support you provide for economicdiversification?(You may tick more than 1 box. Pleaselimit your answer to the top five factors)

Alignment of aid-for-trade support withnational/regional priorities,

Country ownership,

Donor interest in specificprojects/programmes

,

Institutional capacity to implementprojects

,

Mobilization of domestic privateinvestment



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Q20 What factors may limit the success of the aid-for-trade support that you provide for economicdiversification?(You may tick more than 1 box. Pleaselimit your answer to the top five factors.)

Inadequate infrastructure,

Inability to leverage foreign directinvestment

,

Limited financing for the privatesector

,

Poor national/regional coordination,

Weak institutional capacity,

Additional information on the factors that may limit thesuccess of the aid- for-trade support that you provide foreconomic diversification.:

The factors highlighted in our response such asconstraints in the mobilization of investments whether fromforeign or domestic sources, undermine the long-termviability of the economic diversification efforts andtherefore, the success of the support programmes.

Q21 Does the Aid for Trade you provide help mobilizeother forms of development finance for economicdiversification in partner countries (i.e. non-concessional financing, foreign direct investment,remittances, trade finance, etc.).

Unsure,

We have responded unsure, mainly because the situationvaries across countries and programmes supported byUNDP. In addition, there is no systematic monitoring ofleveraging at the programme or project level. An analysisundertaken by UNDP in 2017 with respect to EIF projectswhere UNDP features as main implementing entity,indicated that UNDP programmes had facilitatedleveraging of its own and other resources for USD 3million. This analysis was based on a sample of projectsand excluded in-kind contributions, however.

Additional information on how Aid for Trade helps mobilizeother forms of development finance for economicdiversification.:


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Q22 To which partner country(ies) or territory(ies) doyou provide aid-for-trade financing for economicdiversification?(You may tick more than 1 box)

Angola,

Botswana,

Cambodia,

Comoros,

Guinea,

Kyrgyz Republic,

Malawi,

Tajikistan,

Uzbekistan,

Additional information on the partner country(ies),territory(ies) or regional programmes in which you provideaid-for-trade financing for economic diversification.:

UNDP is a development organization with activities at theglobal, regional and country level and a physical presencein close to 170 countries and territories. The countrieshighlighted represent a sample of projects which supporteconomic diversification.

Q23 Through which channels do you provide aid-for-trade financing for economic diversification?(You maytick more than 1 box)

Multilateral institutions,

Please provide further details on the channels throughwhich you provide aid-for-trade financing for economicdiversification.:

UNDP provides programme support through country,regional and global programmes.

Q24 With which South-South partner(s) do you partnerto offer financing for economic diversification?(Youmay tick more than 1 box or leave all boxes unticked ifyou do not partner with any)

China,

Additional information the South-South partner(s) youpartner with to provide financing for economicdiversification.:

UNDP promotes and leverages South-South cooperationmodalities to support sustainable development around theworld across programmatic areas. In this questionnaire,we highlight China a country with which UNDP works on anumber of trade-related support programmes includingCassava value chain in Cambodia.


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Q25 Looking ahead, in which sectors do you anticipatefuture support for economic diversification to berequired? (You may tick more than 1 box)

Agriculture,

Industry,

Services,

Fisheries,

Forestry,

Additional information on the sectors that you anticipatewill require most support for economic diversification.:

We anticipate efforts on economic diversification tocontinue across sectors, including on services as a resultof the unfolding of the forth industrial revolution and furtherdeepening of global value chains. Another area of potentialdevelopment for support on economic diversification is onsustainable development and trading of natural resourcesincluding forestry and fisheries, etc.

Q26 Looking ahead, in which category(ies) of aid-for-trade financing do you anticipate that you will continueto provide aid-for-trade support for economicdiversification.(You may tick more than 1 box and/orleave boxes unticked if you do not receive support)



,

Trade facilitation,


,


,




,



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Q27 Is there any Aid for Trade project or programme for economic diversification that you would like to showcaseas an example of best practice?(Please provide additional information and include weblinks as relevant)

- Aid for Trade in Central Asia (Phase III). Information on the project is available here: https://open.undp.org/projects/00077093

Project second phase evaluation: https://erc.undp.org/evaluation/documents/detail/9586

Communication material: Video KGZ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2j_iUoMxs8Video UZB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=havi2qudSTE

Note that this project is an example of good practice on empowerment as well (Question 51).

- Green Commodities Programme – Costa Ricahttp://www.greencommodities.org/content/gcp/en/home/countries-and-commodities/costa-rica-pineapple.html

Q28 Is economic empowerment a priority in your aid-for-trade and development strategy?

Yes,

In 1990 with the first Human Development Report, UNDPintroduced a new approach towards human well-beingcentred on people. This approach understandsdevelopment as a process of expanding people’s choicesby increasing abilities and opportunities to use them. At thecentre of the approach is the notion of individuals asdevelopment agents empowered to make their ownchoices and lead lives their value. Therefore,empowerment – in a broad sense, not only economicempowerment-, is at the core of UNDP’s approach todevelopment.

If yes, please provide additional information on howeconomic empowerment is prioritized in your aid-for-tradeand development strategy.:

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Q29 For which groups does your aid-for-trade strategyseek to promote economic empowerment?(You maytick more than 1 box)

Women's economicempowerment

,

Micro, Small and Medium SizedEnterprises

,

Youth economicempowerment

,

Additional information on the groups for which your aid-for-trade strategy is seeking to promote economic empowerment.:

Please see response to Question 27. In addition, UNDP places especial emphasis on vulnerable groups such as women and youth and has made a priority across its programmes to support efforts by partner countries and through its own interventions, to empower women and youth as key development agents.

UNDP Gender Equality Strategy 2018-2020 recognizes gender equality as a precondition and accelerator for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) and reiterates the commitment to promoting and mainstreaming gender in all UNDP does. UNDP takes a dual approach to gender mainstreaming by integrating gender in developing, planning, implementing and evaluating programmes and projects; and through gender-specific interventions.

UNDP’s Signature Solution 6 focused on Strengthening gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, aims at tackling the structural barriers to realizing gender equality, including barriers to women’s economic empowerment (for example, women’s disproportionate burden of unpaid work).

UNDP’s Strategy on Youth 2014-2017 seeks to achieve three outcomes including (i) increased economic empowerment of youth. The other two are:(ii) enhanced youth civic engagement and participation in decision-making and political processes and institutions; and (iii) strengthened youth engagement in resilience building.

To support the economic empowerment of youth, UNDP works with partners towards increasing the quantity and quality of jobs, including by facilitating their movement towards more productive sectors and increasing access to social protection. Many UNDP’s interventions to support employment creation and livelihoods work through micro and SMEs of youth and women.

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Q30 Does your aid-for-trade or development strategypropose any indicators to track economicempowerment or include any targets to achieve?Yes. If yes, please provide additional information the indicators or targets on economic empowerment included in your aid-for-trade strategy.:The Integrated Results and Resources Framework of the UNDP’s Strategic Plan 2018-2021 defines impact, outcome and output indicators by signature solution. The following indicators allow tracking results in economic empowerment of women and youth. Poverty Signature Solution – Output: 1.1.2 Marginalised groups, particularly the poor, women, people with disabilities and displaced are empowered to gain universal access to basic services and financial and non-financial assets to build productive capacities and benefit from sustainable livelihoods and jobs. Output indicators: - Number and proportion of people accessing basic services disaggregated by target groups: Poor, Women , People with disabilities, Youth, Displaced populations, Other marginalized groups -Number and proportion of people accessing financial and non-financial assets, disaggregated by target groups: Poor, Women, People with disabilities, Youth, Other marginalized groups.Programme and projects would use specific indicators on economic empowerment including for instance:- Number of official jobs created: For Women, Youth- Number of jobs retained

Q31 Does your aid-for-trade or development strategylink economic empowerment in partner countries totheir participation in international trade?

No

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Q32 Please indicate in which category(ies) of aid-for-trade financing you provide support for Aid for Trade foreconomic empowerment.(You may tick more than 1box and/or leave all boxes unticked if you do notreceive support)



,

Trade facilitation,


,


,




,


,

Agriculture,

Forestry,

Fishing,

Industry,

Mineral resources andmining

,

Travel andtourism

Q33 Does the aid-for-trade support you provide foreconomic empowerment align with the empowermentpriorities established in partner countries national orregional trade and development strategy(ies)?

Yes,

Please see response to Question14.

Additional information on how the aid-for-trade support youprovide for economic empowerment aligns with theempowerment priorities established in partner countriesnational or regional trade and development strategy(ies).:

Q34 Is women's economic empowerment a priority inyour development or aid-for-trade strategy?

Yes,

Please see response to Questions 27 and28.

Additional information on how women's economicempowerment is prioritized in your development aid-for-trade strategy.:

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Q35 In your view, how best can Aid for Trade make acontribution to women's economicempowerment? (You may tick more than 1 box. Pleaselimit your answer to the top five factors)

Improving access toinformation

,

Improving access to global valuechains

,

Providing access tofinance

,

Supporting the growth and economic development ofwomen,

Upgrading business skills

Q36 What forms of aid-for-trade financing, in your view,best support women's economic empowerment?(Youmay tick more than 1 box and/or leave all boxesunticked if you do not receive support)

Trade facilitation,




,

Agriculture

Q37 What factors contribute to the success of Aid forTrade in promoting women's economicempowerment? (You may tick more than 1 box.Please limit your answer to the top five factors)


Coordination amongdonors

,

Country ownership,

Good trade-relatedinfrastructure

,


,

Additional information on the factors that contribute to thesuccess of Aid for Trade in promoting women's economicempowerment.:

Confidence building and networking opportunities



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Q38 In your view, how best can Aid for Trade make acontribution to the economic empowerment of MSMEs.(You may tick more than 1 box. Please limit youranswer to the top five factors)


,

Upgrading the energyinfrastructure

,


,

Improving access to global valuechains

,

Improving the provision ofservices

Q39 What forms of aid-for-trade financing, in your view,best support the economic empowerment of MSMEs?(You may tick more than 1 box and/or leave all boxesunticked if you do not receive support)



,


,

Trade policy and regulations (Including training oftrade officials, analysis of proposals and positionsand their impact, support for national stakeholders toarticulate commercial interest and identify trade-offs,dispute issues, institutional and technical support tofacilitate implementation of trade agreements and toadapt to and comply with rules and standards).,


,

Trade facilitation,


Transport and storageinfrastructure

,

Energy supply and generationinfrastructure

Q40 What factors contribute to the success of Aid forTrade in promoting the economic empowerment ofMSMEs? (You may tick more than 1 box. Please limityour answer to the top five factors)


,


,

Leveraging of foreign directinvestment

,


,


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Q41 In your view, how best can Aid for Trade contributeto Youth economic empowerment?(You may tick morethan 1 box. Please limit your answer to the top fivefactors)


,

Upgrading business skills,

Upgrading ICTskills

,


,

Improving digitalconnectivity

Q42 What forms of aid-for-trade financing, in your view,best support Youth economic empowerment?(You maytick more than 1 box and/or leave all boxes unticked ifyou do not receive support)



,


,

Trade facilitation,


Transport and storageinfrastructure

,

Communications infrastructure,

Energy supply and generationinfrastructure

Q43 What factors contribute to the success of Aid forTrade in promoting Youth economicempowerment? (You may tick more than 1 box.Please limit your answer to the top five factors)



,

Country ownership,


,


Q44 In your view, can Aid for Trade make acontribution to the achievement of the 2030Sustainable Development Agenda ?

Yes



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Q45 If yes, please specify which SustainableDevelopment Goal or Goals (SDGs) Aid for Trade canhelp to achieve.(You may tick more than 1box)Sustainable Development Goals:

1. Nopoverty

,

2. Zero hunger,

5. Genderequality

,

8. Decent work and economicgrowth

,

9. Industry, innovation andinfrastructure

,

10. Reduceinequalities

,

12. Responsible consumption andproduction

,

14. Life belowwater

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15. Life onland

,

17. Partnership for thegoals

Q46 Which partner country(ies) or custom territory(ies)are the main recipients of the aid-for-trade financingyou provide for economic empowerment?(You may tickmore than 1 box)

Angola,

Botswana,

Burkina Faso,

Cambodia,

Cameroon,

Colombia,

Comoros,

Congo,

CostaRica

,

Côte d'Ivoire,

Democratic Republic of theCongo

,

Dominican Republic,

Egypt,

Equatorial Guinea,

Ghana,

Guinea,

Indonesia,

Kenya,


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Kyrgyz Republic,

Lesotho,

Liberia,

Malawi,

Nigeria,

Papua New Guinea,

Paraguay,

Peru,

Rwanda,

Sao Tome andPrincipe

,

SierraLeone

,

Tajikistan,

Uganda,

Uzbekistan,

Zimbabwe,

Additional information on the country(ies) or customterritory(ies) that are the main recipients of the aid-for-tradefinancing you provide for economic empowerment.:

UNDP is a development organization with activities at theglobal, regional and country level and a physical presencein close to 170 countries and territories. The countrieshighlighted represent a sample of projects which supporteconomic empowerment.

Q47 Through which channels do you provide aid-for-trade financing for economic empowerment?(You maytick more than 1 box)

Multilateral institutions,

Please provide further details on the channels throughwhich you provide aid-for-trade financing for economicempowerment.:

UNDP provides programme support through country,regional and global programmes.

Q48 With which South-South partner(s) do you partnerwith to provide aid-for-trade financing for economicempowerment?(You may tick more than 1 box or leaveall boxes unticked if you do not partner with any))

Other (pleasespecify)

,

Additional information on the South-South partner(s) yourpartner with to provide coherent aid-for-trade financing foreconomic empowerment.:

UNDP promotes and leverages South-South cooperationmodalities to support sustainable development around theworld across programmatic areas. For example, UNDPworks with Rwanda to support the expansion of the YouthConnekt programme in Africa.

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Q49 Looking ahead, in which category(ies) of aid-for-trade financing do you anticipate that you will continueto provide aid-for-trade support for economicempowerment.(You may tick more than 1 box and/orleave boxes unticked if you do not receive support)



,


,

Agriculture,

Trade policy and regulations (Including training oftrade officials, analysis of proposals and positionsand their impact, support for national stakeholders toarticulate commercial interest and identify trade-offs,dispute issues, institutional and technical support tofacilitate implementation of trade agreements and toadapt to and comply with rules and standards).,


,

Trade facilitation,


,


Forestry,

Fishing,

Industry,

Mineral resources andmining

,

Travel andtourism

Q50 Is there any Aid for Trade project or programme for economic empowerment you would like to showcase asparticularly important or as an example of best practice?(Please provide any relevant additional information andinclude weblinks as relevant)

Yes, Youth Connekt for the economic empowerment of youth in Africa and the Gender Equality Seal.

Youth Connekt is an innovative platform first launched in Rwanda in 2013, which brings together young people looking for employment, skills or resources to develop their own business with various partners including UNDP, private sector and government. The programme supports young people through technical and entrepreneurship training, networking, access to finance through business competition, and other interventions to enlarge their economic opportunities and be agents of change. The programme won the UNDP Africa Innovation Award in 2013 and has not expanded to other countries in Africa.

The Gender Equality Seal is a programme designed to facilitate private companies to embrace gender equality and enhance women’s social and economic empowerment. Starting in Latin America, the programme is now expanding at a global scale. It is also applied within UNDP providing opportunities to UNDP’s country offices to better integrate gender equality in all aspects of their work. Building on its own experience, UNDP is now sharing its methodology and approach with other UN entities interested in applying the Gender Equality Seal for its own operations.


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Q51 Please provide any additional information.(Please reference in the form or weblinks, document symbols,including to evaluations of projects or programmes)

- Youth Connekt Africahttps://www.youthconnektafrica.org/http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/stories/poverty-connekting-youth-to-skills-and-jobs.html

- Gender Equality Seal for Public and Private Organizationshttp://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/gender-equality/transforming-workplaces-to-advance-gender-equality/gender-equality-seal-for-public-and-private-enterprises.html

- Gender Equality Seal for UNDP Entitieshttp://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/gender-equality/transforming-workplaces-to-advance-gender-equality/gender-equality-seal-for-undp.html

http://www.undp.org/content/dam/undp/library/gender/gender%20and%20governance/2%20Gender%20Equality%20Seal%20Certification%20for%20Public%20and%20Private%20Enterprises%20-%20LAC%20Pioneers.pdf

Q52 CONSULTATION (Other ministries/agencies consulted in preparing this questionnaire reply):

Various UNDP units were consulted to respond to this quesitonnaire including country offices involved in the implementation of trade-related and empowerment programmes across regions as well as central units.

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