{"id":462,"date":"2021-10-28T06:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aftias.azurewebsites.net\/?page_id=462"},"modified":"2024-11-07T09:28:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T09:28:28","slug":"who-we-are","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aftias.com\/?page_id=462","title":{"rendered":"Who we are?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Aid for Trade<\/a> (AfT) initiative was one of the most important development-related outcomes of the 2005 World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference that was held in Hong Kong. It targets developing countries, particularly Least-developed Countries (LDCs), to strengthen their productive capacities, trade-related infrastructure capacity to compete in regional and global markets.<\/p>\n

This global initiative was launched to reinforce commitments by both multilateral and bilateral development partners to prioritize trade capacity development support and by beneficiaries to adopt trade reforms as a key pillar for sustainable growth and poverty reduction strategies.<\/p>\n

Since 2005, the AfT initiative has taken off in most of the world\u2019s developing regions, with a phenomenal increase in aid for trade flows, technical assistance, and capacity support, as reported by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development<\/a> (OECD). But the Arab region (22 states) has remained largely on the sidelines. Nonetheless, these countries share the same challenges as many developing countries from other regions in the world.<\/p>\n

To address this situation, the Qatar and Egypt Permanent Missions to the WTO, UN Office and Specialized Institutions in Geneva, requested the Islamic Development Bank Group (IsDB) Group to develop an AfT Road Map for the Arab region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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