The Standards and Trade Development Facility
There are country briefings for:
Benin Cambodia Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Kenya Lao PDR Lesotho Mozambique Nicaragua Panama Peru Rwanda Senegal Tanzania Uganda Vietnam Yemen, Rep.
Brief Description
The Standards and Trade Development Facility
URL: http://www.standardsfacility.org/
Parties
- Partners: FAO, OIE, World Bank, WHO, WTO
- Observers: International Trade Centre (ITC), UNCTAD, UNIDO
- The donors are listed at: http://www.standardsfacility.org/AUDonors.htm
Objective
The strategic aims of the STDF are:
- To assist developing countries enhance their expertise and capacity to analyze and to implement international SPS (Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary) standards, improving their human, animal and plant health situation, and thus ability to gain and maintain market access; and
- To act as a vehicle for awareness raising on the importance of SPS issues, coordination among technical cooperation providers, the mobilization of funds, the exchange of experience and the dissemination of good practice in relation to the provision and receipt of SPS-related technical cooperation.
Time Window
Started: STDF was established in August 2002
Ends: ——