Partners

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Working in partnership

In order to tackle a wide range of challenges, the BTFP has adopted a partnership approach with national, regional and international organisations. Alliances help to improve stakeholder understanding, find common ground and create the basis for effective development of appropriate solutions and strategies

Contributions from UNCTAD and partners within the BTFP are always demand-driven by beneficiary countries and can take the following forms:

• Trade and export promotion: market access and market creation, trade-related legal issues, value chain development,  product development, product standardisation and quality improvement

• Sustainable use: sustainable-use practices, implementation of resource management plans

• Investment: improved access to finance, improved access to foreign direct investment

Partners

International partners of the BTFP are service providers in developed countries with large expertise in the relevant issues to the programme.

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 Established in 1971 as an agency of he Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the mission of the Centre for the Promotion of Imports from developing countries (CBI) is to contribute to the economic development by strengthening the competitiveness of companies from developing countries exporting to the European Union. CBI considers social values and compliance with the most relevant environmental requirements to be an integral part of its policy and activities.

The International Trade Centre (ITC) is the technical cooperation agency of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) for operational, enterprise-oriented aspects of trade development. ITC supports developing and transition economies, and particularly their business sector, in their efforts to realize their full potential for developing exports and improving import operations.

As one of the economic development instruments of the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), the Swiss Import Promotion Programme (SIPPO) promotes the competitiveness of emerging markets and markets in transition. By using trade promotion programmes and the associated matchmaking instruments, SIPPO helps small and medium-sized enterprises in emerging markets and markets in transition to enter the Swiss and European Union markets, and provides Swiss importers with assistance in finding new products, new suppliers and new sourcing markets.

PhytoTrade Africa -- the Southern African Natural Products Trade Association -- is a partner in the BioTrade Facilitation Programme which partnership was signed during the WSSD in September 2002. PhytoTrade Africa’s overall objective is: "to enable poor rural communities in the region to generate supplementary incomes through the sustainable exploitation of natural products." Its mission statement is: "to develop a viable and enduring natural products industry in the region, engaged in both domestic and export trade, and based on resources accessible to poor rural communities." BTFP supports PhytoTrade Africa in developing a viable and enduring natural products industry within the Southern African region, based on natural resources that are accessible to poor rural producers.