WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  WT/COMTD/AFT/W/18/Add.4 
11 February 2011 
 (11-0723) 
Committee on Trade and Development 
Aid for Trade  
 
 
 
PROGRESS IN IMPLEMENTATION OF THE 2010-2011  
AID-FOR-TRADE WORK PROGRAMME 
 
Background Note prepared by the Secretariat1 
 
Addendum  
  
I. INTRODUCTION 
1. This background note has been prepared to  update Members on the progress that has been 
made in implementation of the 2010-2011 Aid-fo r-Trade Work Programme since the Committee on 
Trade and Development's (CTD) Session on Aid-for-Trade (AfT) which was held on 26 October 2010.  The note follows the same st ructure as the Work Programme found in document 
WT/COMTD/AFT/W/16.   
2. The background note is not a comprehensive an alysis of ongoing Aid-for-Trade actions.  It 
covers only the activities of international organizati ons, as reported to the WTO, which are in support 
of the implementation of the 2010-2011 Aid-for-Trade Work Programme.
2  Members are encouraged 
to complement this note by reportin g on their activities at the CTD's 19th Session on Aid for Trade to 
be held on 16 February 2011.   
II. RESOURCE MOBILIZATION  
3. The Group of 203 (G-20) held its Fifth Summit in Seoul, Korea on 11 and 12 November 2010.  
The meeting, entitled "G-20's Role in the Post-C risis World", addressed mid- and long-term policy 
issues including, ensuring global economic recovery;  framework for strong, sustainable, and balanced 
global growth;  strengthening the international financial regulatory system;  modernizing the 
international financial institutions;  global financ ial safety nets;  and development issues.  Leaders 
adopted a Multi-Year Action Plan on Development a nd committed to at least maintain, beyond 2011, 
Aid-for-Trade levels that reflect the average of  the years 2006 to 2008.  The Summit Declaration and 
Multi-Year Action Plan can be found at http://www.g20.org . 
4. The World Bank International Development Asso ciation's sixteenth round of replenishment 
negotiations (IDA-16) on the financial contributi ons of donors for the period 2011-2014 concluded in 
Brussels, Belgium on 14-15 December 2010.  Agre ement was reached on a US$49.3 billion funding 
package, an 18 per cent increase on the previous ro und held three years ago.  Pledges included not 
                                                      
1 This document has been prepared under the Secret ariat's own responsibility and without prejudice to 
the positions of Members and to their rights and obligations under the WTO. 
2 As such, the note omits many of the Aid-for-Trade activities of international organizations and 
excludes the activities of bilateral donors.   
3 Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Fr ance, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, 
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Republic of Korea, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the 
United States, and the European Union.  WT/COMTD/AFT/W/18/Add.4 
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  only from traditional donors but also funding from within the World Bank Group and from current 
and former IDA borrowers.
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5. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will hold its Annual 
Meeting and Business Forum in Astana, Kazakhstan on 20 and 21 May 2011.  At the Annual Meeting, 
EBRD Governors will review the Bank's activities to support recovery in the region and give strategic 
guidance on the Bank's operations.  Discussion at the Business Forum, entitled "Supporting Markets – 
Asia Meets Europe", will focus on topical financial,  economic, political and social issues affecting the 
EBRD region. 
6. The Asian Development Ba nk (AsDB) will hold its 44th Annual Meeting in Hanoi, Viet Nam 
on 3-6 May 2011.  Participants will include government leaders, cen tral bank governors and finance 
ministers, as well as representatives from the privat e sector, academia, media and civil society.  The 
meeting will focus on investment in Viet Nam, regional integration, infrastructure development, 
protecting the poorest through private sector growth, and a major highlight of the meeting will be a 
discussion on what Asia needs to do to drive tran sformation, manage risks and sustain its success 
through 2050.  The meeting will also include c ountry presentations on Indonesia, Mongolia, Papua 
New Guinea, Bangladesh and Timor-Leste.  The full program for the Annual Meeting can be found at 
http://www.adb.org/AnnualMeeting/2011/program-events.asp.  
7. The AsDB's Trade Finance Program (TFP) provi des guarantees and loans to partner banks in 
support of international trade.  Since it be gan operations in 2004, the TFP has supported 
US$4.3 billion in trade.  Trade finance support is  provided to companies during economic downturns 
and times of growth enabling them to engage in import and export activities in Asia's most 
challenging markets.  A substantial part of TFPs  portfolio supports small- and medium-sized 
enterprises in intra-regional transactions or transactions between AsDB's developing member 
countries.  The AsDB will continue to expand th e reach of the TFP in 2011 to support intraregional 
trade and economic integration.  More information can be found at http://www.adb.org/TradeFinance/glance.asp
. 
8. The African Development Bank will hold its next  Annual Meetings in Lisbon, Portugal from 
9-10 June 2011, and the Annual M eetings of the Inter-American Development Bank will take place in 
Calgary, Alberta, Canada, from 25-28 March 2011. 
III. MAINSTREAMING  
9. Analysis of Aid for Trade within the TPR process, as specified in the 2010-2011 
Aid-for-Trade Work Programme, is continuing.  Work  has been completed on the six pilot TPRs that 
were identified in the Work Programme (China, Hond uras, Malawi, the United States, the joint review 
of Benin, Burkina Faso and Mali, and Belize) and on integrating an Aid-for-Trade analysis into TPRs 
for non-pilot Members including Jamaica, Paragua y, the Gambia, Sri Lanka, Papua New Guinea, and 
the Democratic Republic of Congo.  Work is also progressing on integrating an Aid-for-Trade 
analysis into TPRs for other non-pilot Members incl uding Nigeria, and a joint review of Mauritania 
and the Republic of Guinea.5 
10. Belize has since undertaken to develop an Ai d-for-Trade Strategy designed to support the 
Government in the identification of priorities fo r building trade capacity, initiating dialogue with 
donors and investors, and the development of an ev aluation mechanism.  The Aid-for-Trade Strategy, 
                                                      
4 For more information on the IDA- 16 replenishment exercise, see: 
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXT ABOUTUS/IDA/0,,contentMDK:22495227~menuPK:68
27445~pagePK:51236175~piPK:437394~theSitePK:73154,00.html . 
5 See WT/TPR/271 for the programme of reviews for 2011.  WT/COMTD/AFT/W/18/Add.4 
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  which was launched at a Conference held by the Belize Ministry of Foreign Trade on 21 January 
2011, addresses Belize's trade-re lated constraints including, inter alia , its limited export 
diversification, market concentration, and infrastructure gaps.   
11. The Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF) Bo ard held its third meeting on 10 November 
2010.  Decisions taken by the Board included:  approval of the Executive Secretariat (ES) work plan 
and budget for the period January to December 2011;  approval of the global activities budget for the 
period January to December 2011;  approval of the TFM work plan and budget for the period January 
to December 2011;  and approval of  an indicative cap of up to US$3 million per country for Tier 2 
projects, which would be reviewed later with emphasis on flexibility, context and quality of the 
project proposals.  The term of office of the EIF Board Chair, H.E. Ambassador A.M. Maruping 
(Lesotho), was extended until December 2011. 
12. Funding for the multi-donor Trust Fund of the EIF programme has continued to increase with 
the number of donors reaching 22.  As of December 2010, contributions to the Trust Fund amounted to approximately US$120 million with total ple dges amounting to US$180 million.  Under the EIF 
Trust Fund Tier 1, aimed at institutional capacity  building for EIF implementation, a total of 
29 projects were approved in 2010.  Seven of these projects are approved pre-DTIS projects, three are 
validated Diagnostic Trade Integration Studies (D TIS), and 19 are projects supporting the National 
Implementation Arrangement s (NIA) put in place to mainstre am trade and ensure coordinated 
implementation of priority activities proposed by the DTIS Action Matrices.  In addition, approximately 20 Tier 2 projects are in various st ages of development for submission in 2011.  Work 
is also underway to develop an EIF monitoring and evaluation framework and a programme logframe 
is expected to be finalized during the course of 2011. 
13. An EIF Regional Workshop for Central and West Africa and Haiti was held in Bamako, Mali 
on 8 to 10 December 2010.  Discussion at the Workshop focused on how to support countries across the region to achieve results and share good practi ces, highlighting challenges and setting out a future 
roadmap for progress.  The next EIF Regional Work shop, for Eastern and Southern Africa, will be 
held on 15 to 17 February 2011 in Maseru, Lesotho.   Other activities in 2011 include the completion 
of the EIF Five-Year Strategy Plan, the finalizati on of the compendium of working documents, as 
well as the further roll-out of the EIF capacity building programme in a number of pilot countries starting with project development and mainstream ing modules.  The EIF will also hold a joint 
WTO/EIF high-level thematic roundtable at the LD C-IV Conference in Istanbul as well as a side 
event at the Third Global Review of Aid for Trade. 
14. Further information can be found on the new EIF website at http://www.enhancedif.org
. 
IV. IMPLEMENTATION 
15. A workshop on Small, Vulnerable Economies (SVE s) and Aid for Trade is being organized 
on 16 February 2011.  Pr esentations and discussion will focus on the regional identification of Aid-
for-Trade needs and priorities, the mechanisms in  place to address these needs, and the impact and 
effectiveness of Aid for Trade on SVEs and the role it is having on economic growth and 
development. 
16. At the CTD-AfT meeting held on 26 October 2010, the Cambodian Secretary of State for 
Commerce, H.E. PAN Sorasak, provided an overview of the Asia-Pacific Regional Technical Group (RTG) Process and outlined key messages from the dr aft RTG co-Chairs Report – "Aid for Trade in 
the Asia-Pacific:  Its Role in Trade-Driven Gr owth" – which will be presented as the region's 
contribution to the Third Global Review of Aid for Trade.  These included the complementary role 
that aid has played in attracting foreign direct i nvestment into the newly industrializing economies of 
Asia.  He noted that the Asian experience demonstr ated that development as sistance worked when it WT/COMTD/AFT/W/18/Add.4 
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  was combined with outward-oriented trade and investment strategies.  Other Asian Member 
countries/economies were encouraged to join the RTG.   The fourth RTG meeting is expected to be 
held in Manila, Philippines on 27 and 28 April 2011.   Discussions will focus on preparations for the 
Third Global Review of Aid for Trade, the RTG's work plan for 2011-2012, and South-South cooperation.
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17. A Ministerial meeting organized in the contex t of the Aid-for-Trade Roadmap for the United 
Nations Special Programme for the Economies of Central Asia (SPECA)7 took place in Baku, 
Azerbaijan from 1 to 2 December 2010.  One of the key outcomes of the meeting was the signing of a Ministerial Declaration that calls for creating dy namic synergies between national and regional trade-
related development initiatives and policy measures as well as ensuring a greater contribution of trade 
to equitable growth among the different regions w ithin each country.  Further information on the 
meeting can be found at http://www.unece.org/trade/SPECA-AfTBaku2010/welcome.html
. 
V. MONITORING AND EVALUATION 
18. The Third Global Review of Aid for Trade w ill take place on 18 and 19 July 2011.  The 
focus, which will be on outcomes and impacts of Aid for Trade, will be informed by case stories and 
completed self-assessment questionnaires from part ner countries, donors, Sout h-South partners, and 
regional economic communities.  The case story approach  is being used to high light concrete stories 
of successes – and failures – in Aid for Trade at a national and regiona l level and should be 
considered as a first step towards more in-depth  assessments.  The call for case stories was launched 
by the WTO Director-General and OECD Secretary General on 26 July 20108 and the final 
OECD/WTO Aid-for-Trade questionnaires for part ner countries, donors, South-South partners, and 
regional economic communities were circulated on 15 October 2010.  The completed questionnaires 
and case stories will be posted on a dedicated website for the Third Global Review.9  They will also 
inform the analysis by the OECD and the WTO of impact of Aid for Trade on trade, development and 
poverty reduction and best practices in the effec tive delivery, implementation and evaluation of Aid 
for Trade. 
19. An overview of the status of responses to the call for case stories and questionnaires will be 
provided by the Secretariat at the CTD-AfT meeting on 16 February. 
20. The regional training activities organized by the WTO in collaboration with relevant regional 
partners to assist developing-country members and observers engage in the monitoring and evaluation 
exercise have now been concluded.  Training ac tivities were held for Francophone African countries 
in Libreville, Gabon from 6-8 October 2010;  fo r the Asian region in Hanoi, Viet Nam from 
9-11 November 2010;  for Anglophone African coun tries, led by UNECA, in Johannesburg, South 
Africa on 16-17 November 2010;  for Latin America in Quito, Ecuador from 30 November-2 December 2010;  for the Pacific in  Nadi, Fiji on 9-10 December 2010;  and for the 
Caribbean region, in co-operation with the In ter-American Development Bank, in Bridgetown, 
Barbados from 25-27 January 2011.  The WTO also participated in a training activity organized by 
ECOWAS in collaboration with the African De velopment Bank and UNECA which took place in 
Abuja, Nigeria on 19-21 January 2011.   
                                                     
 
6 Further information on the Asia-Pacific RTG can be found at http://www.aric.adb.org/aid-for-trade-
asia/. 
7 SPECA economies include Afghanistan, Azerba ijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, 
Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. 
8 WT/COMTD/AFT/W/22 . 
9 http://www.aid4trade.org  (under construction).   WT/COMTD/AFT/W/18/Add.4 
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  VI. PRIVATE SECTOR 
21. A meeting on "Trade Finance and Facilitation:   Engaging the Private Sector in Trade 
Policymaking and Trade Negotiations in Africa"  was organized by the WTO and the African 
Development Bank in Tunis on 27 October 2010 on the margins of the African Economic Conference.  
The outcome document, "A Framework for the African Private sector Participation in Trade Policy 
Formulation and Trade Negotiations", is expected to lead to more active participation by the private 
sector and enhance the business advocac y infrastructure in the form of an African Business Network.  
A preliminary Consultative Group has been establis hed to serve as the platform for engaging the 
African private sector to participate in trade negotiations and contribute to government policy 
formulation and implementation.  The WTO and the African Development Bank continue to assist 
and support the further development of the African Business Network. 
 
  
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