• Supporting the link between human development and trade

• UNDP’s focus:

– To help developing countries build capacity to compete

internationally by overcoming supply side constraints;

– To help developing countries build capacity to negotiate,

interpret and implement trade agreements (multilateral, regional

and bilateral) in a manner that prioritizes poverty reduction and

human development; and

– To help developing countries incorporate pro-poor,

development-centered trade policies into national development

strategies, including poverty reduction programmes.

• Trade is a tool and does not automatically guarantee

sustainable economic growth, poverty reduction and overall

human development.

Four essential consideration for HD considerations in trade:

• Productivity: related to the improvement of human

capabilities;

• Equality: progressive access to opportunities for all members

of society;

• Sustainability: resource usage that does not compromise the

welfare of future generations;

• Empowerment: people’s capability to shape processes and

events that affect their lives.

• Trade and private sector as a leverage and necessity for human

development;

• Interventions adapted to country/sub-regional context;

• Intra-regional cooperation and partnership between project

units;

CA coverage

Aid for Trade Needs Assessments under

phase I

Development of Aid for Trade Needs

Assessments in 11 countries in Central

Asia, South Caucasus and Western CIS:

Objectives:

• Identification of capacity gaps

(institutional, human, etc.) and

technical assistance needs;

• Development of policy

recommendations and action matrix

for potential donor assistance;

• Development of concrete project

proposals for AfT interventions.

On the basis of the Aid for Trade Needs Assessments undertaken in

SPECA countries the following areas were considered as critical by

member states and adopted as focus areas in the Ministerial

Declaration:

– Supply side/within-border measures;

– Cross-border cooperation;

– The multilateral trading system .

Cross- border cooperation:

• Physical infrastructure;

• Institutional trade infrastructure, with a focus on trade

facilitation;

• Market access.

Some examples from the project:

AIMS in Sughd (Tajikistan)

– Web-portal www.agroinform.tj

– Newspaper

– Electronic boards

– SMS system

Since the inception of the portal on

1.07.2010 more than 45 813 individuals

have visited it

… a similar system was also established

in Batken (Kyrgyzstan)

Access to information is vital

Some examples from the project:

No artificial heating (clay)

Cost of one: 17 000US$ (10K – loan and

7K contribution from farmer)

Cost recovery: one year (2 season

January-May 2011 and December

2011-March 2012 - 9 months)

Drip irrigation

Organic fertilizer (i.e. cow dung)

Tonnage (collected: 7000kg tomatoes

January - May 2011)

Protecting the environment = PROFIT

Environmental protection &

business sense

Some examples from the project:

Bigger yields:

Traditional cotton - 2.17 ton/ha

‘Organic cotton’ - 2.50 ton/ha

Cost price:

Traditional cotton – 907 US$/ha

‘Organic cotton’ - 904 US$/ha

Profit:

Traditional cotton – 314 US$/ha

‘Organic cotton’ - 891 US$/ha

Protecting the environment = PROFIT

Natural fertilizer in cotton

production

Some examples from the project:

Improved services along the transport corridors:

Establishment of a café along the Kyrgyz – Tajik border

Some examples from the project:

Some bits from Batken

- 120 tons of onions (Novosibirsk)

- 65 tons of bird cherry

- 53 tons of apricots

- 29 tons of onions

- 60 tons of potatoes (Kazakhstan)

- 40 tons of peach (Russia)

- 100 tons of preserved (Kazakhstan)

- 225 tons of barley (Tajikistan)

- 1200 kg of rice (Bishkek)