• Aid for trade

Aid for trade

This report takes stock of trends and developments in aid flows between 2002-2005 that are most closely related to aid for trade. Setting out the Wold Trade Organisation (WTO) monitoring framework, it briefly outlines donor and partner country responses to the survey on their aid for trade strategies, pledges and delivery.

The authors contend that global monitoring of aid for trade is a work in progress. However, the three tiered monitoring framework that was developed jointly by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the WTO uncovered a number of important findings. These include:

• a global picture of aid for trade provides the basis for a dialogue on making aid for trade work better, but measuring aid for trade at global level is difficult
• most aid for trade goes to Asia and to the middle income countries but there are large differences in flows per country
• many donors possess strategies and guidance on aid for trade that also address regional challenges
• donors are harmonising procedures and aligning their support, but partners note that more remains to be done
• the next monitoring round should encourage best practices, involve greater partner-country participation, and better integrate the regional dimension.
  

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