WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
WT/COMTD/AFT/W/37 
26 October 2012 
 (12-5847) 
Committee on Trade and Development 
Aid for Trade  
 
 
 
LAUNCH OF THE  
AID-FOR-TRADE MONITORING EXERCISE 
 
Joint communication by the WTO and OECD Secretariats 
 
Fourth Global Review of Aid for Trade:  Connecting to Value Chains 
 
 1. The Fourth Global Review of Aid for Trade, "C onnecting to Value Chains", will be held at 
the WTO Headquarters in Geneva in July 2013.  Underpinning the Global Review is a monitoring 
exercise.  This exercise is based on self-assessment questionna ires to which Members, Observer 
Governments and Observer Organizati ons are invited to respond.   
2. Previous monitoring exercises have enjoyed high rates of participation.  You are encouraged 
to contribute to the success of the Fourth Global  Review event by participating actively in this 
monitoring exercise.   
3. The monitoring exercise for the Fourth Global Re view is being undertaken using an online, 
electronic format.  Delegations are formally request ed to circulate the electronic formats to their 
national authorities.  This document provides guidance on how to complete this task.  In particular, 
the document includes: 
 Suggested text with which Heads of Delegati ons are requested to transmit the monitoring 
questionnaires to their Ministers and/or Heads of  Organization.  The text also includes the 
electronic links to the donor, partner country and South-South monitoring questionnaires;  and 
 
 A letter signed by WTO Director-General, Pascal Lamy, and OECD Secretary-General, 
Angel Gurría, addressed to Ministers which inv ites them to participate in the monitoring 
exercise.  
 
4. A further complementary exercise to survey privat e sector participants in value chains will be 
launched in due course.   
5. Please note that the deadline for submission of completed questionnaires is 
31 December 2012 .  WT/COMTD/AFT/W/37 
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  Suggested text for transmission of the monitoring questionnaires  
 
Fourth Global Review of Aid for Trade:  Connecting to Value Chains 
 
 
Your Excellencies, 
 The Fourth Global Review of Aid for Trade will take  place in July 2013.  Underpinning the Review is 
the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) exercise.  Th e aim of the M&E exercise is to survey the 
barriers that are holding back some developing coun tries from participation or value addition within 
value chains, how Aid for Trade can help overcom e these barriers, and to examine the development 
effects of participating in value chains.   In order to solicit this information, self-assess ment questionnaires are being circulated to donors 
(bilateral and multilateral agencies), South-South partners and developing and least-developed 
countries.  
 Responses to the questionnaires will be analysed and conclusions drawn in a joint publication by the 
Organisation for Economic Co- operation and Development (OECD) and the World Trade 
Organization (WTO).  Policy implications will be discussed at the 4
th Global Review of Aid for 
Trade.  The Global Review event is influential in galvanizing support and directing strategies to help 
developing countries derive the maximum development benefit from trade.    
 We thank you in advance for your contributi on and ask you to please submit the completed 
questionnaire by 31 December 2012 .   
 
Links to the self-assessment questionnaires: 
 
Donor Questionnaire (Eng lish, French, Spanish) 
English: https://www.research.ne t/s/DONOR_QUESTIONNAIRE  
French:  https://www.research.net/s /QUESTIONNAIRE_DONATEUR  
Spanish: https://www.research.net/s /CUESTIONARIO_DONANTE  
 
South-South Partner Questionnaire (English and Spanish) 
English: https://www.research.net/s/S OUTH_SOUTH_QUESTIONNAIRE  
Spanish: https://www.research.net/s/CUESTIONARIO_SUR-SUR  
 
Partner Country Questionnaire (English, French, Spanish) 
English: https://www.research.net/s/PARTNER_COUNTRY_QUESTIONNAIRE  
French:  https://www.research.net/s/QU ESTIONNAIRE_PAYS_PARTENAIRE  
Spanish: https://www.research.net/s/CUESTIONARIO_PAIS_ASOCIADO  
 
 
 
WTO   OECD 
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Joint letter from WTO Director-General and OECD Secretary-General 
 
 
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