Pre-DTIS and DTIS Good Practices

Pre-DTIS and DTIS Good Practices

• Pre-DTIS project

• DTIS template

• Good practice DTIS

Pre-DTIS activities

• Recall objective to be achieved through: mainstreaming, donor coordination

• Setting-up institutions – FP, NSC, DF • Focal Point: key contact in the Government for EIF – often:

Director to Trade • National Steering Committee: interministerial plus private sector

and civil society; donor if desired; if possible: use existing body; • Donor Facilitator: key dialogue partner for FP on donor

coordination; often – donor most active on trade support; desirable: bilateral

• Familiarization activities: workshop and similar activities to ensure that the process is established and understood; and

• Input into DTIS.

Pre-DTIS project

• EIF TF offers beneficiaries to submit a small Tier 1 Pre-DTIS project to support the Pre-DTIS and DTIS phase

• Familiarization and sensitization activities: workshops and similar activities to ensure that the goals of the EIF and the roles of stakeholders are well understood and that stakeholders fulfil their roles;

• Input into DTIS – comments on concept, comments on various chapters and the draft report and action matrix;

• Activities to set up good practice EIF process – visits to more advanced countries, follow up meetings; maybe establishing small NIU;

• Support to prepare a multi-year Tier 1 Support to NIA project; • Check-list for Pre-DTIS projects part of M&E (not yet approved);

Diagnostic phase

• Diagnostic phase: consultation, concept, fact-finding; • Lead agency for the DTIS – in the past World Bank or UNDP; now

wider choice; • Important: DTIS is not one-size fits all – recall objective: identify set

of priority actions to address trade constraints and opportunities; sometimes need to do diagnostic from scratch (post-conflict countries), in others need to compile and update existing work;

• Template to guide, but not to constrain; • Validation of conclusions and Priority Action Matrix; • Important: prioritization – especially if there exist many studies

already, need to invest in finding what the priorities are, what sequencing, etc.; and

• Proper prioritization is prerequisite for successful implementation.

Diagnostic phase – good practice

• ensuring a high degree of ownership of the DTIS by the in-country stakeholders,

• Include national or regional experts in the team; • Set up counterpart teams (government, private sector, others as necessary)

for the various study chapters that help the experts team in fact finding and review the conclusions and recommendations;

• avoiding duplication of the diagnostic;• Before the diagnostic starts, prepare a list of available studies, including

regional; • Find out what studies Development Partners may be doing;

• ensuring high quality of the diagnostic, • If desired go beyond the usual review process which is two fold – agency,

and EIF Board;• ensuring that the diagnostic provides a good basis for IF implementation

• Include a chapter on ‘next steps’ or ‘from diagnostic to strategy’; • Undertake careful review of the action matrix to ensure it is not too long,

and includes concrete actions, if possible already sequenced;

Role of the different stakeholders

• Stakeholders: Ministry of Trade/ Commerce as lead ministry; representatives from all Ministries and Government institutions to do with trade, private sector, civil society, overseas missions and commercial attaches, donors;

• Diagnostic phase: • Identifying key areas for diagnostic; • Contributing to concept;• Cooperating in fact-finding – interviews, making studies and data

available; and• Validation: contributing to prioritization.

Contact

IF Executive Secretariat at the WTO:

email: if.secretariat@wto.org

Web: www.integratedframework.org