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About the Programme
Introduction
The UNCTAD-UNDP Global Programme on
Globalization, Liberalization and Sustainable Human Development is a
flagship partnership between the United
Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP).
As a joint partnership, the Global Programme draws on the twin
strengths of UNDP and UNCTAD to contribute to better integration of
developing countries into the global economy. UNDP provides a sustainable
human development (SHD) paradigm and a worldwide network of 134 country
offices with a knowledge base at the ground level. UNCTAD provides an
analytical and systemic understanding of trade and development issues,
with expertise in trade rules and negotiations, investment and enterprise
development. The Programme fosters cross-fertilization between these
different strands, promoting convergence under a SHD umbrella.
The
Programme operates holistically, engaging partner countries in a dialogue
that reflects the concerns of the many, not the few. This provides
interactive trade and development policy spaces and policy areas likely to
be enhanced by investment opportunities and institutional innovations for
managing global integration.
At the same time, the Programme works at the global
level to enhance its delivery of people-centred development by providing
an analysis of the dynamics of globalization and liberalization. The flow
of ideas between the national and global levels provides an interface
connecting WTO negotiations, national and interregional policy, and
institutional analyses in order to enhance competitiveness at sectoral and
intersectoral levels.
Partnerships
The Programme seeks to create
partnerships with international organizations such as UN Department of
Economic and Social Affairs, and Regional Commissions; ILO World
Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization and South Centre; the
private sector; NGOs such as the International Centre on Trade and
Sustainable Development; and research centres such as the Competitiveness
Institutes in Boston and Barcelona and Institut Fran ais des Relations
Internationales.
Outcome
The Programme s activities, in
focusing on interactive trade and development policy spaces and policy
areas likely to be enhanced by institutional innovation, bring sustainable
human development to the forefront of challenges being confronted by
countries in their global integration.
Streamlining the interface
between WTO negotiations, national and interregional policy, and
institutional analyses is one way of enhancing competitiveness at specific
sectoral or intersectoral levels. This enables countries to exercise
greater control over their integration into the world economy.
The
outcome of work at the national and global levels also enhances
initiatives within UNCTAD, UNDP and the Integrated Framework on
Trade-Related Technical Assistance for LDCs, and provides a platform for
follow-up activities. These include investment policy reviews, training in
commercial diplomacy and capacity-building programmes in the post-Doha
environment.
Check the events guide for more on
past and future meetings, associated news articles and relevant documents.
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Nations 2001
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