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Aid for Trade (AfT) is an initiative established to strengthen developing countries’ productive capacity and to tackle their supply-side constraints, as well as their needs in trade-related infrastructure. From a financial point of view, AfT refers to all official development assistance (ODA) finance for trade development independently from the economic sectors it is channelled to.

Trade issues are not exclusive to a single economic sector, but are rather cross-cutting. Indeed, a country’s ability to trade depends on its capacity to deal in an integrated and coherent manner with a broad range of issues (e.g. production, processing, transport, storage, infrastructure, trade policy, trade agreements) which enable it to link the supply with the demand side. Many of these issues fall under the regulatory responsibility of various non-trade ministries (e.g. agriculture, environment, energy, infrastructure, etc).

The harmonization of sectoral trade priorities often proves difficult due to the division of competencies among ministries. AfT provides a framework for countries to harmonize their trade-related needs and to increase the coherence of trade interventions in the context of national development plans and poverty reduction strategies.

AfT offers a unique opportunity to mainstream SLM issues in the trade development agenda, and to build partnerships with trade institutions to engage in SLM as a means to increase the profitability and sustainability of trade activities.

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Ms Eleonora Canigiani
Trade & Markets Strategy Officer
Tel.: +39 06 5459 2734
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Ms Susan Bingi
Trade and SLM Advisor
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Mr Salif Touré
Trade and SLM Advisor
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