Burkina Faso

<p>AIM for Results is an intervention approach that strengthens the performance, efficiency and effectiveness of TISIs and builds their capacity to provide more effective support to the internationalisation needs of their clients, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).</p><p>AIM stands for Assess, Improve and Measure. It is a holistic and targeted integrated three-step-approach focusing on measurable results in order to improve the managerial, operational and service delivery performance of TSIs. The three pillars of AIM are offered either as a single module or as a complete performance improvement programme, depending on the needs of the beneficiary institutions.</p><p>&nbsp;In 2017, the project aims to improve the operational and managerial performance of 40 TISIs applying ITC&rsquo;s AIM For Results methodology.</p>

<p>Poor Communities and Trade Programme (PCTP), at the International Trade Centre (ITC), aims to reduce global poverty by strengthening the capacities of developing country micro-entrepreneurs, social enterprises and emerging designers for export trade, in order to connect them with international buyers, in the value chain of ethical fashion, through an inclusive business model.</p><p>PCTP provides technical expertise and business support to informal micro-enterprises and to emerging designers, through a business support infrastructure (based on hubs managed by social enterprises) that enables them to acquire capacities to set up and manage production and quality control systems, logistics and supply chain management, market identification and buyer negotiation skills. This market-based approach to poverty reduction provides micro-entrepreneurs form the informal sector (for the majority women) &nbsp;with the direct benefits of trade by creating jobs and facilitating business opportunities resulting in increased incomes, improved livelihoods and new linkages to the formal economy.</p><p>Within its social enterprises around the world, ITC&rsquo;s Ethical Fashion Initiative (EFI) in <u><strong>2019&nbsp;</strong>focus on the following deliverables<strong>:</strong></u></p><ul><li><strong><strong>Living wage assessments are carried out in 8 project countries</strong></strong></li><li><strong>African Fashion Fund in collaboration with the Ethical Fashion Initiative&nbsp;</strong></li><li><strong><strong>New business model, based on online trade is developed and launched</strong></strong></li><li><strong>Events in coordination with the UN Alliance for Sustainable Fashion are organised</strong></li><li><strong>Generating awareness on the impacts of climate change and conflicts affecting livelihoods of people in selected project countrie</strong></li></ul><p><strong><u>In 2020</u></strong> the Initiative will focus on the following deliverables:</p><p><span style="font-weight: 700;"><strong>Output 3.1: Accelerator launched with six African designers 4 of which are from countries not involved in the existing project frameworks of the EFI (expansion of EFI&rsquo;s network and creation of new opportunities for intra-African trade).&nbsp;</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 700;">Output 3.2: <strong>Eritrea project framework tested through preliminary activities, designed and submitted&nbsp;</strong></span></p><p>In 2021</p>

<p>The objective of this project is to enhance the functionalities and effective use of Trade Facilitation Portals by beneficiary countries with a view to create a more conducing cross-border environment for traders through improved transparency and simplified trade formalities.<span>&nbsp;This project builds upon ITC - UNCTAD longstanding partnership in the area of trade facilitation and creates opportunities for further build synergies across the agencies&apos; respective technical assistance offering.</span></p>

<p>The overall objective of the proposed project is to attract investment and promote trade and sustainable industrial and business development at continental level, concretely supporting the AfCFTA Secretariat and the African Union and delivering on the Africa-EU partnership for sustainable growth and jobs.&nbsp;</p><p>The project contributes to this objective by</p><ul><li>identifying trade and investment opportunities along regional value chains with potential at continental scale in Africa, including potential for investment by EU economic operators;</li><li>Strengthening the EU-Africa dialogue on trade and economic integration, informing high-level events such as the upcoming AU-EU Summit and European- African Business Forum (EABF)</li><li>identifying pilot/selected continental value chains that could be targeted for support in the EU 2021-27 aid programming exercise.</li></ul><p>It supports the implementation of the AfCFTA and ITC&apos;s One Trade Africa Initiative.</p>

<p>Poor Communities and Trade Programme (PCTP), at the International Trade Centre (ITC), aims to reduce global poverty by strengthening the capacities of developing country micro-entrepreneurs, social enterprises and emerging designers for export trade, in order to connect them with international buyers, in the value chain of ethical fashion, through an inclusive business model.</p><p>PCTP provides technical expertise and business support to informal micro-enterprises and to emerging designers, through a business support infrastructure (based on hubs managed by social enterprises) that enables them to acquire capacities to set up and manage production and quality control systems, logistics and supply chain management, market identification and buyer negotiation skills. This market-based approach to poverty reduction provides micro-entrepreneurs form the informal sector (for the majority women) &nbsp;with the direct benefits of trade by creating jobs and facilitating business opportunities resulting in increased incomes, improved livelihoods and new linkages to the formal economy.</p>

<p>Pour le kit didactique, l&apos;ITC s&apos;appuiera sur un consultant sp&eacute;cialiste de la chaine de valeur de la tomate au s&eacute;n&eacute;gal qui d&eacute;veloppera avec les experts ITC le contenu du kit sur la base de consultations men&eacute;es avec les differents acteurs. La vid&eacute;o et le livret sera ensuite r&eacute;alis&eacute; par une entreprise de r&eacute;alisation de film.</p><p>Le guide de p&eacute;n&eacute;tration sera d&eacute;velopp&eacute; avec l&apos;appui de consultants nationaux charg&eacute;s d&apos;identifier les proc&eacute;dures et les r&eacute;gles pour exporter vers le march&eacute; am&eacute;ricain sous le r&acute;&euro;gime am&eacute;ricain. Un consultant am&eacute;ricain sera recrut&eacute; en parall&egrave;le pour identifier les circuits de distribution des produits s&eacute;lectionn&eacute;s.</p>

<p>In 2018, the ACP Secretariat, the EC, together with ITC, UNIDO and the World Bank finalized the Joint Proposal for a five-year Program (hereafter the &lsquo;Program&rsquo;) aiming at (1) adopting and implementing business-friendly and inclusive national policies and legal frameworks, and (2) strengthening productive, processing, promoting and marketing capabilities and value chains. The three agencies will respectively deliver micro-, meso-, and macro-level activities, and will ensure the appropriate level of coordination and synergies aiming to deliver integrated solutions to ACP countries.&nbsp;</p><p align="JUSTIFY" dir="LTR">The program includes country-level interventions, as well as Rapid Response and Regional Engagement windows for each of the three pillars. The Rapid Response window aims at swiftly responding to emerging beneficiary needs given emerging demands in the thematic areas of the Program; the Regional Engagement window will primarily aim to promote knowledge exchange, best practices and experience capture and sharing to contribute to two fundamental objectives.&nbsp;</p>

<p><span>The overall objective of the regional programme is to &lsquo;&rsquo;Strengthen the competitiveness of West Africa through an enhanced level of production, transformation and export capacities of the private sectors in line with the regional and national industrial and SME strategies&rsquo;&rsquo;. The specific objective is &lsquo;&rsquo;to improve the performance and growth of selected priority sectors and value chains and related services by stimulating their contribution to industry, regional trade and exports&rsquo;&rsquo;. The intervention of ITC in the form of the West Africa Competitiveness Programme (WACOMP) will entail the implementation of the activities related to&nbsp;</span><span>the promotion of better regional linkages among selected value chain, support to</span>&nbsp;<span>key regional intermediary organizations, the reinforcement of industrial competitiveness in the region, and the establishment of the West African Competitiveness Observatory and related business tools.</span></p>

<p>This project, which is financed by the preference funding from Denmark, supports ITC&rsquo;s ongoing work under its non-tariff measures (NTMs) programme, which aims at <strong>creating the evidence base that decision makers need to effectively reduce trade cost related to NTMs and create a business environment conducive to inclusive trade</strong>. The programme ensures that the concerns of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) about regulatory and procedural trade obstacles are brought to the attention of policymakers and other stakeholders, <strong>enabling them to take concrete actions to address these</strong>. The work also contributes to<strong>&nbsp;increasing the transparency of NTMs</strong> and related procedures, and provides thought leadership through research and analysis, informing national, regional and multilateral trade policy making.</p><p>The following outlines the vision for the 3-year horizon of the preference funding with a detailed results planning and budget breakdown for the 500K W1 allocation for 2018, 800K for 2019, 800K for 2020 and 300K for 2021.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>

<p><em>Le projet a pour but de <strong>contribuer au d&eacute;veloppement &eacute;conomique et &agrave; l&rsquo;emploi dans le secteur artisanal au Burkina Faso et au Mali et ainsi r&eacute;duire la pression migratoire au sein de ces pays, en luttant contre les causes profondes des ph&eacute;nom&egrave;nes de d&eacute;stabilisation&nbsp;</strong>et ce, en offrant des possibilit&eacute;s de formation et en favorisant la cr&eacute;ation d&rsquo;emplois dignes, durables et &eacute;quitablement r&eacute;mun&eacute;r&eacute;s respectant les normes du Fair Labour Association (FLA - Association pour le Travail Equitable en fran&ccedil;ais)</em></p><p><em><strong>Au sein de l&apos;International Trade Centre (ITC), le projet sera mis en place par l&apos;&eacute;quipe de l&rsquo;Ethical Fashion Initiative (EFI) qui</strong></em><strong><em>&nbsp;a pour but de contribuer &agrave; la r&eacute;duction de la pauvret&eacute; en permettant &agrave; des artisans marginalis&eacute;s de pays en voie de d&eacute;veloppement de s&rsquo;ins&eacute;rer dans le march&eacute; international du &laquo; lifestyle &raquo; qui comprend, la mode, la d&eacute;coration int&eacute;rieur, l&rsquo;ameublement et les industries cr&eacute;atives.</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>EFI a lanc&eacute; un projet de promotion &agrave; l&rsquo;international du tissage artisanal du coton au Burkina Faso et au Mali de 2013 &agrave; 2016 et ce projet a obtenu de tr&egrave;s bons r&eacute;sultats. Le projet pr&eacute;sent&eacute; ici constitue la Phase II de l&rsquo;intervention de EFI dans la chaine de valeur du tissage. <strong>Ce projet a pour but d&rsquo;&eacute;tendre significativement le nombre de b&eacute;n&eacute;ficiaires, en contribuant &agrave; la cr&eacute;ation et la stabilisation de 4650 emplois justement r&eacute;mun&eacute;r&eacute;s et durables au Burkina Faso et au Mali, mais surtout d&rsquo;adresser la probl&eacute;matique de l&rsquo;&eacute;migration en ayant comme populations cibles les personnes susceptibles de migrer (en particulier les jeunes), les migrants de retour dans leurs pays d&rsquo;origine apr&egrave;s expulsion et des demandeurs d&rsquo;asile en Europe potentiellement candidats aux programmes de Retours Volontaires Assist&eacute;s (RVA).&nbsp;</strong>Le projet interviendra tout au long de la chaine de valeur du tissage artisanal, de l&rsquo;&eacute;grenage du coton &agrave; la transformation des tissus en produits finis. Il apportera des d&eacute;bouch&eacute;es dans le secteur du &laquo; lifestyle &raquo; qui comprend la mode mais aussi l&rsquo;am&eacute;nagement et la d&eacute;coration d&rsquo;int&eacute;rieur.&nbsp;</em></strong></p><p>Au Burkina Faso le projet op&egrave;re &agrave; travers une entreprise sociale d&eacute;nomm&eacute;e Groupement d&rsquo;Int&eacute;r&ecirc;t Economique &laquo; Commerce et Artisanat pour le Bien-&Ecirc;tre Social &raquo;, GIE CABES en abr&eacute;g&eacute;.</p><p>Au Mali le Projet op&egrave;rera &agrave; partir de 2019 &agrave; travers une entreprise sociale d&eacute;nomm&eacute;e KOBA-YIRIWATON-Kori+bara+yiriwation &raquo; KOBAYI-TON-SARL en abr&eacute;g&eacute;</p><p>Les entreprises sociales contextualisent le mod&egrave;le d&rsquo;intervention standard de EFI &agrave; travers le rep&eacute;rage, l&rsquo;identification et l&rsquo;organisation et la d&eacute;livrance de l&rsquo;assistance technique sp&eacute;cialis&eacute;e &agrave; ces micro et tr&egrave;s petites entreprises ind&eacute;pendantes d&eacute;j&agrave; constitu&eacute;es, avec des artisans talentueux (mais assez souvent informelles et inconnues des autorit&eacute;s fiscales), afin de mettre en commun leurs faibles moyens, leur permettre de r&eacute;duire leurs charges, de d&eacute;velopper une offre compl&egrave;te, cr&eacute;dible et de qualit&eacute; pour les acheteurs, r&eacute;gionaux, internationaux et ainsi d&rsquo;accroitre leurs revenus issus des exportations.</p>