The implementation of the Integrated Framework comprises three
broad stages.
First, preparatory activities,
which would typically include: an official request from the country
to participate in the IF process; a technical review of the request;
the establishment of the National IF steering committee; and, to
the extent possible, the identification of a lead Donor.
Second,
once the request has been approved, the process moves on to its
diagnostic phase, resulting in the
elaboration of Diagnostic Trade Integration Study (DTIS).
Finally,
follow-up activities start with the
translation of diagnostic phase’s findings into the elaboration
and validation of an action plan, which serves as basis for trade-related
technical assistance delivery.
the EIF also provides for DTIS updates, i.e., a diagnostic phase
during the implementation/follow-up phase with the objective of
adding new diagnostic information, if necessary.
The implementation of the IF started on a pilot basis in May 2001
in Cambodia, Madagascar and Mauritania. Later on, the Integrated
Framework was extended to many more LDCs. Please check the status of
IF countries
here.
The implementation of the IF remains "work in progress".
The agencies are also in the continuous process of learning from
the lessons of on-going implementation. The IF has been subject
to on-going assessments, including the mandated review in 2000,
the assessment of the IF Pilot Scheme before the Fourth Ministerial
Conference in 2001, an interim report by the Director-General to
the General Council in December 2002, and another mandated evaluation
in 2003, prior to the Fifth Ministerial Conference.
The latest evaluation
of the IF occurred in December 2003 (Final Report of the
Evaluation of the Integrated Framework (pdf
- 107k), French
(pdf - 120k)).
In 2005, the EIF stakeholders agreed on reinforcing the
Integrated Framework, and, according to the recommendations of a
Working Group and at the end of a transition phase, the enhanced
Integrated Framework will become operational in the second half of
2008.
Page last updated on
2 September 2008
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