Burkina Faso

<p>The project will strengthen ICDT services on trade intelligence to support the public and private sector from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to make better informed decisions and, in the long term, to contribute to an increase of trade between OIC Member States through the embedding of Market Analysis Tools, the development of an online Trade Helpdesk and the development of trade-related studies.</p>

<p>AIM for Results is an intervention approach that strengthens the performance, efficiency and effectiveness of TISIs and builds their capacity to provide more effective support to the internationalisation needs of their clients, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).</p><p>AIM stands for Assess, Improve and Measure. It is a holistic and targeted integrated three-step-approach focusing on measurable results in order to improve the managerial, operational and service delivery performance of TSIs. The three pillars of AIM are offered either as a single module or as a complete performance improvement programme, depending on the needs of the beneficiary institutions.</p><p>&nbsp;In 2017, the project aims to improve the operational and managerial performance of 40 TISIs applying ITC&rsquo;s AIM For Results methodology.</p>

<p>Poor Communities and Trade Programme (PCTP), at the International Trade Centre (ITC), aims to reduce global poverty by strengthening the capacities of developing country micro-entrepreneurs, social enterprises and emerging designers for export trade, in order to connect them with international buyers, in the value chain of ethical fashion, through an inclusive business model.</p><p>PCTP provides technical expertise and business support to informal micro-enterprises and to emerging designers, through a business support infrastructure (based on hubs managed by social enterprises) that enables them to acquire capacities to set up and manage production and quality control systems, logistics and supply chain management, market identification and buyer negotiation skills. This market-based approach to poverty reduction provides micro-entrepreneurs form the informal sector (for the majority women) &nbsp;with the direct benefits of trade by creating jobs and facilitating business opportunities resulting in increased incomes, improved livelihoods and new linkages to the formal economy.</p><p>Within its social enterprises around the world, ITC&rsquo;s Ethical Fashion Initiative (EFI) in <u><strong>2019&nbsp;</strong>focus on the following deliverables<strong>:</strong></u></p><ul><li><strong><strong>Living wage assessments are carried out in 8 project countries</strong></strong></li><li><strong>African Fashion Fund in collaboration with the Ethical Fashion Initiative&nbsp;</strong></li><li><strong><strong>New business model, based on online trade is developed and launched</strong></strong></li><li><strong>Events in coordination with the UN Alliance for Sustainable Fashion are organised</strong></li><li><strong>Generating awareness on the impacts of climate change and conflicts affecting livelihoods of people in selected project countrie</strong></li></ul><p><strong><u>In 2020</u></strong> the Initiative will focus on the following deliverables:</p><p><span style="font-weight: 700;"><strong>Output 3.1: Accelerator launched with six African designers 4 of which are from countries not involved in the existing project frameworks of the EFI (expansion of EFI&rsquo;s network and creation of new opportunities for intra-African trade).&nbsp;</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 700;">Output 3.2: <strong>Eritrea project framework tested through preliminary activities, designed and submitted&nbsp;</strong></span></p><p>In 2021</p>

<p><a name="_Hlk155357558"><span style="color: rgb(97, 189, 109);">Business support organizations (BSOs) are critical actors in an ecosystem of business support, categorized by the formal and informal connections among service providers that recognises and takes advantage of shared objectives and complementary strengths.</span></a></p><p><span style="color: rgb(97, 189, 109);">ITC has developed a unique centre of excellence in the establishment, improvement and connectedness of business support organizations. This work with BSOs is embedded as a core service area for ITCs strategy and recognises the role that BSOs play in delivering results to all stakeholders through their ability to create scale, systemic change and sustained results</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(97, 189, 109);">In this strategic cycle (22-25), ITC will continue to serve a broad range of BSOs including those active in ITC&rsquo;s priority impact areas of youth entrepreneurship, green trade, digitalisation and gender, with managerial and operational solutions, but also invest more in ecosystem level interventions, and make use of digital channels for efficiency, scale and value.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(97, 189, 109);">This docu<span>ment sets out a 4-year perspective (2022-20225) and 4 strategic objectives for supportive business ecosystems with, specific outputs and activities describing the year-on-year contribution of W1 funding to the strategic core service area 2.</span></span></p>

<p>The objective of this project is to enhance the functionalities and effective use of Trade Facilitation Portals by beneficiary countries with a view to create a more conducing cross-border environment for traders through improved transparency and simplified trade formalities.<span>&nbsp;This project builds upon ITC - UNCTAD longstanding partnership in the area of trade facilitation and creates opportunities for further build synergies across the agencies&apos; respective technical assistance offering.</span></p>

<p><span lang="FR">EFI a opt&eacute; pour une approche r&eacute;gionale afin de cr&eacute;er un r&eacute;seau solide de transformateurs artisanaux de coton, de favoriser la collaboration entre les communaut&eacute;s et ainsi renforcer le tissu social dans une zone fragilis&eacute;e par le terrorisme et l&rsquo;enclavement. C&rsquo;est une approche qui permettra aux communaut&eacute;s B&eacute;ninoises de b&eacute;n&eacute;ficier de l&rsquo;exp&eacute;rience du Burkina Faso &agrave; travers la mise en relations entre les deux partenaires de mise en &oelig;uvre CABES au Burkina Faso et Espace de Tissage Djougou au Benin. La transformation artisanale du coton &agrave; travers ce projet est utilis&eacute;e comme outil de rem&eacute;diation aux probl&egrave;mes de ch&ocirc;mage et plus g&eacute;n&eacute;ralement de pauvret&eacute;. &Eacute;tendre le projet au-del&agrave; de la fronti&egrave;re Burkinab&egrave; et surtout dans la r&eacute;gion Nord du B&eacute;nin permettra une meilleure contribution &agrave; la r&eacute;duction des pressions humaines exerc&eacute;es sur l&rsquo;environnement et ce, sur une plus large superficie.</span></p><p><span lang="FR">&Agrave; travers la cr&eacute;ation de coop&eacute;ratives villageoises et l&rsquo;appui technique aux agriculteurs familiaux, le projet entend renforcer le capital humain dans la zone, et ce, en s&rsquo;appuyant sur les connections &eacute;tablies depuis quelques ann&eacute;es par EFI dans la r&eacute;gion et en s&rsquo;inspirant de l&apos;application du mod&egrave;le d&apos;entreprise d&apos;EFI au Burkina Faso et plus r&eacute;cemment au Benin. Dans la premi&egrave;re phase du projet, EFI se focalisera sur la cr&eacute;ation et le renforcement des capacit&eacute;s productives des artisans.</span></p><p><span lang="FR">La base de l&rsquo;action consiste &agrave; d&eacute;velopper une chaine de valeur li&eacute;e &agrave; la transformation du coton dans les r&eacute;gions concern&eacute;es et assurer les d&eacute;bouch&eacute;s de ces produits de qualit&eacute;. Il s&rsquo;agit d&rsquo;une nouvelle approche au d&eacute;veloppement de la ressource coton, qui est maintenant int&eacute;gr&eacute; dans le cadre plus g&eacute;n&eacute;ral de la gestion des ressources naturelles. C&rsquo;est une approche holistique qui permet de valoriser la transformation du coton en &eacute;vitant les dommages des exploitations classiques. Elle permettra ainsi d&rsquo;encourager la consommation responsable des ressources naturelles et de r&eacute;duire l&rsquo;utilisation de produits chimiques. Le projet se veut promoteur de l&rsquo;utilisation durable de la ressource coton et protecteur du complexe environnemental W qui constitue un atout pour le stockage du carbone.</span></p><p>Le projet cible principalement les femmes rurales/artisans vuln&eacute;rables vivant autour du parc.</p><p>Objectif General/Impact : Contribuer &agrave; l&rsquo;am&eacute;lioration des conditions de vie des communaut&eacute;s vivant autour du complexe environnemental W-Arly-Penjari</p><p>Objectif Specifique/Outcome: Augmenter les revenus et la comp&eacute;titivit&eacute; des artisans et des producteurs impliqu&eacute;es dans la chaine de valeur du coton</p><p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p>

<p>Poor Communities and Trade Programme (PCTP), at the International Trade Centre (ITC), aims to reduce global poverty by strengthening the capacities of developing country micro-entrepreneurs, social enterprises and emerging designers for export trade, in order to connect them with international buyers, in the value chain of ethical fashion, through an inclusive business model.</p><p>PCTP provides technical expertise and business support to informal micro-enterprises and to emerging designers, through a business support infrastructure (based on hubs managed by social enterprises) that enables them to acquire capacities to set up and manage production and quality control systems, logistics and supply chain management, market identification and buyer negotiation skills. This market-based approach to poverty reduction provides micro-entrepreneurs form the informal sector (for the majority women) &nbsp;with the direct benefits of trade by creating jobs and facilitating business opportunities resulting in increased incomes, improved livelihoods and new linkages to the formal economy.</p>

<p>Pour le kit didactique, l&apos;ITC s&apos;appuiera sur un consultant sp&eacute;cialiste de la chaine de valeur de la tomate au s&eacute;n&eacute;gal qui d&eacute;veloppera avec les experts ITC le contenu du kit sur la base de consultations men&eacute;es avec les differents acteurs. La vid&eacute;o et le livret sera ensuite r&eacute;alis&eacute; par une entreprise de r&eacute;alisation de film.</p><p>Le guide de p&eacute;n&eacute;tration sera d&eacute;velopp&eacute; avec l&apos;appui de consultants nationaux charg&eacute;s d&apos;identifier les proc&eacute;dures et les r&eacute;gles pour exporter vers le march&eacute; am&eacute;ricain sous le r&acute;&euro;gime am&eacute;ricain. Un consultant am&eacute;ricain sera recrut&eacute; en parall&egrave;le pour identifier les circuits de distribution des produits s&eacute;lectionn&eacute;s.</p>

<p>This project document proposes the establishment and piloting of a blended, non-accredited, vocational and practical training programme concentrated around the fundamentals of exporting and the opportunities resulting from the AfCFTA. This curriculum will be developed by the SME Trade Academy in collaboration with the Afreximbank.</p><p>Local partners, such as trade training institutions will provide support in implementation of the pilot programme in three countries, namely Nigeria, Rwanda and C&ocirc;te d&apos;Ivoire.</p><p>The pilot will involve building local partners&rsquo; capacity to market the training and conduct sessions on a continuous basis, localizing the offering for each national context.</p><p>An <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">expansion phase</span> has been added to the project involving a further 12 countries. The online training will be opened to all African countries.</p><p>A second expansion phase has been added to the project involving the delivery of national workshops for 4 additional countries following a new agreement signed with the ITFC.</p>

<p>In 2018, the ACP Secretariat, the EC, together with ITC, UNIDO and the World Bank finalized the Joint Proposal for a five-year Program (hereafter the &lsquo;Program&rsquo;) aiming at (1) adopting and implementing business-friendly and inclusive national policies and legal frameworks, and (2) strengthening productive, processing, promoting and marketing capabilities and value chains. The three agencies will respectively deliver micro-, meso-, and macro-level activities, and will ensure the appropriate level of coordination and synergies aiming to deliver integrated solutions to ACP countries.&nbsp;</p><p align="JUSTIFY" dir="LTR">The program includes country-level interventions, as well as Rapid Response and Regional Engagement windows for each of the three pillars. The Rapid Response window aims at swiftly responding to emerging beneficiary needs given emerging demands in the thematic areas of the Program; the Regional Engagement window will primarily aim to promote knowledge exchange, best practices and experience capture and sharing to contribute to two fundamental objectives.&nbsp;</p>