Joint Integrated Technical Assistance Programme (
JITAP) (2007) 'Partnership for Trade Development in Africa', <www.jitap.org> 20 September 2007.
To overcome these challenges, participants agreed that CSOs and media should become full members of their national Inter-Institutional Committees, set up under
JITAP, which are responsible for coordinating national negotiating positions at the WTO.
For more information, see the
JITAP web site: http://www.jitap.org
This significant increase is largely the result of accelerated delivery in
JITAP and of the launch of a number of IF projects.
"
JITAP is primarily about capacity building," says Lakshmi Puri, Director of the Division on International Trade in Goods, Services and Commodities at UNCTAD.
Some of the valuable programmes and activities to promote trade and improve enter prise competitiveness in which LDCs participate are
JITAP, the Integrated Framework, the South-South Trade Promotion Programme and the Export-led Poverty Reduction Programme.
The
JITAP partnership, now in its second generation, was followed by a series of ongoing alliances with both technical and financing agencies, including the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie, the International Organization for Standardization, the International Tropical Timber Organization, the World Bank, the Centre for the Promotion of Imports of the Netherlands, the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (seco) and, most recently, the Trade Facilitation Office Canada.
Mlaki actively supports integrated trade development, including the Joint Integrated Technical Assistance Programme for Africa (
JITAP) and the Integrated Framework, directly aimed at building capacity on the multilateral trading system, and promoting trade development.
It will seek to broaden its participation in multi-agency initiatives, such as the Joint Integrated Technical Assistance Programme for Africa (
JITAP) and the Integrated Framework (IF), and will forge new alliances with other centres of excellence.
* helped launch the second phase of
JITAP, thanks to the Governments of Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Norway and Sweden, which have already pledged half the total budget required to implement this four-year programme.
* The Joint Integrated Technical Assistance Programme (
JITAP), implemented jointly by ITC, WTO and UNCTAD, strengthens the capacity of African countries to integrate into the multilateral trading system.
ITC also implements the Joint Integrated Technical Assistance Programme (
JITAP) for African countries with UNCTAD and WTO, where multilateral trading system issues play a prominent role.