Africa

Despite some initial interventions by JITAP I, the capacity of Côte d’Ivoire (CDI) to comply with WTO Agreements and to conduct multilateral trade negotiations (MTN) to its best advantage is still very limited. In line with the mandate of the PMU, and at the request of the CDI authorities, the proposed project seeked to address this limitation.

As an LDC member of the WTO, Chad seek to strengthen its institutional capacity to implement its WTO commitments and to be more effective in negotiating multilateral trade agreements.
The institutional strengthening was achieved by targeting the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Handicrafts, whose mandate include trade policy formulation and implementation.

The objectives of the contract are:
To attain a high level of awareness on IP issues among Lebanese thereby safeguarding their innovations, arts, creations, etc. and complementing the country’s policy for an open and transparent market economy, with special emphasis on meeting the country’s obligations towards the international community;

The required services consist of technical assistance to the Egyptian Customs Administration (under the Ministry of Finance) for institutional capacity building and upgrading of management resources of the Customs Administration, thus contributing to the achievements of the Government of Egypt’s customs reform objectives.