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21 August 2008

Selection of the Executive Director of the Executive Secretariat for the Enhanced Integrated Framework
 

French: Sélection de la Directrice exécutive du Secrétariat exécutif pour le Cadre intégré renforcé

 

The EIF has an Executive Director!

 

Ms Dorothy Tembo, Zambia, known by many of the IF community, has been selected as the EIF Executive Director to  head the up-coming EIF Executive Secretariat.

 

Ms Tembo joins the EIF Executive Secretariat (ES) from her current positions as the Chief Trade Negotiator and Director, Foreign Trade, Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry, Zambia. In her capacity as the Director of Foreign Trade, Ms Tembo has also served as Zambia's IF Focal Point and brings into the ES first-hand experience and understanding of the IF implementation.

 

Ms Tembo possesses a broad understanding of economic implications of international trade policy on development and has experience in analytical research on international trade and development issues related to her native Eastern and Southern African region and the Multilateral Trading System as a whole. Her theoretical and practical understanding covers a broad range of areas including trade negotiations, economic integration, economic environmental reviews, trade and industrial policy and investment as well as administering trade-related technical assistance programmes aimed at  enhancing her country's  participation in the regional and multilateral markets. The experience has been acquired through the consultancy work undertaken; work experience with the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry; and other Inter-Governmental, Non-State and Private Sector Institutions. Ms Tembo has not only been a resource person for Government and Private Sector on research and analysis, but as part of the capacity-building programmes, has also provided on-the-job training to middle management staff in the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry on bilateral, regional and multilateral trade negotiations. Her exposure as Zambia's Chief Trade Negotiator and Director of Foreign Trade over the past four years has contributed tremendously to her experience.

 

Ms Tembo led the Zambian team at technical level during their tenure as Coordinator of the LDCs within the WTO framework for a period of eighteen months which commenced in the early part of 2005. The LDCs during Zambia's tenure saw the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial Meeting deciding among other issues the principle agreement of extending Duty and Quota Free market access to the group, the setting in motion of the Aid for Trade Agenda and the endorsement of commencing the work on the IF enhancement.

 

The PIU wishes to extend heartfelt congratulations to Ms Tembo and is looking forward to receiving this remarkable lady in Geneva to steer the EIF to a success!

 


 

31 May 2008

Words of Appreciation for UNDP as the Outgoing Trust Fund Manager

Mots d'Appréciation pour le PNUD en tant que Gestionnaire du Fonds d'affectation spéciale sortant

 


 

15 April 2008

Selection of  the EIF Trust Fund Manager

The IF Board has selected the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) to serve as the EIF Trust Fund Manager (TFM).

UNOPS is a UN agency with headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark.  It also has an established office in Geneva, and it is expected that the TFM activities will be handled out of the Geneva office by staff dedicated to the EIF, supported by regional offices in Africa and Asia.

Meetings will take place with UNOPS in the coming days to agree on a timetable for the operationalization of the EIF Trust Fund.

Please visit the UNOPS website for more information: http://www.unops.org


 

High-Level Donor Pledging Conference for the Enhanced IF: Stockholm, 25 September 2007:

On 25 September,  the Government of Sweden hosted a conference to mobilize international financial support for the Enhanced IF.  The Conference was the culmination of months of preparatory work not only by the host but also by other IF stakeholders such as Canada and the UK as well as others in the EIF team.    The Conference was jointly chaired by Sweden's Ministers for International Development Co-operation (Ms. Gunilla Carlsson) and for Foreign Trade (Ms. Ewa Bjorling), respectively.  The Conference brought together representatives of some 38 donors, the six IF Agencies, as well as 5 LDCs (the chair and the three LDC interim Board members (Lesotho, Rwanda, Senegal and Yemen), as well as the previous LDC coordinator at the WTO, Zambia).

Of the 38 donors, 22 spoke and made concrete pledges or announced full intentions to do so.  Based on the written pledges received, the target set for the first two years of US$ 100 million for the replenishment has been over-subscribed by about US$ 10 million.  A total of around US$ 170 million for the full five years has been pledged. This represents about 75 per cent of the total target of US$ 250 million for the five years. Given the flexibility that donors have signalled, there is confidence that the full funding target for the period 2007–2011 will be met.

These figures all relate to the multilateral IF Trust Fund, not to additional bilateral contributions that donors may make in future to projects derived from the IF process.

The chairpersons' statement at the end of the Conference invited the interim Board to make this initiative now fully operational.

The level of attendance at the Pledging Conference and the interventions made, as well as its pledging success all are good measuring sticks of how awareness of,  and commitment to, the IF from beneficiaries and donors alike have increased since the IF was launched 10 years ago.

 

Press statement (pdf - 30K)

 

Please also refer to the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs' website: http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/2059
 


 

Paper: "From the Integrated Framework to the Enhanced Integrated Framework"

English version (pdf - 28k)

French version (pdf - 31k)


 

Paper: "The  Integrated Framework for Least Developed Countries (LDCs):  How does it fit into Aid for Trade?"

English version (pdf - 56k)

French version (pdf - 63k)


 

Recommendations to operationalize the Enhanced IF adopted on May 1, 2007 – from transition to implementation:

At their meetings on 1 May 2007, the Integrated Framework Working Group (IFWG) and the Integrated Framework Steering Committee (IFSC)- the IF governing bodies- adopted a package of recommendations to start the implementation phase of the enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF). The package was the fruit of 19 months of intense work in the Transition Team and its three clusters, which were set up to operationalize the recommendations of the Task Force on an enhanced IF (WT/IFSC/W/15). It may be recalled that Ministers at the WTO Hong Kong Ministerial Conference in December 2005 were encouraged by the endorsement by the Development Committee of the World Bank and the IMF at its autumn 2005 meeting of an enhanced IF. At the Hong Kong Conference, WTO Ministers welcomed the establishment of a Task Force by the IFWG and IFSC as well as an agreement on the three elements which together constitute an enhanced IF: (i) increased, additional, predictable financial resources to implement Action Matrices; (ii) strengthened in-country capacities to manage, implement and monitor the IF process; and (iii) enhanced IF governance.

The package of recommendation (EIF Consolidated Documents) English Version (pdf - 600k) | French version (pdf - 538k) adopted by the IF governing bodies on 1 May 2007 contains a compilation of working documents setting out the terms of reference and procedures to access funding and of the bodies that constitute the EIF. The recommendations also include, inter alia, a road map outlining the next steps in order to ensure smooth transition from the current IF its enhanced phase. Work is ongoing to select the Trust Fund Manager for the new EIF Trust Fund, recruitment of the Executive Director for the new EIF Secretariat and on the replenishment of the Trust Fund.


 

Case Studies for the IF - Prepared by the Operations Evaluation Department at the World Bank


 

Working Together To Enable LDCs to be Active Players and Beneficiaries of the Global Trading System - The IF Explained (pdf - 159k)

 

 

 

 

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