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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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