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Launching
a
Trade and Transport Facilitation Project in Your Country/Region
Moving on to Reform
If your country
suffers from high transport costs as a result of protracted
delays at your borders and at the borders of your neighbors,
you may well wish to consider launching a trade and transport
facilitation project in your own country. In order to be
effective, however, it is most likely that such a project would
have to be set within the context of a regional program
with several country-based projects.
Launching
such a program will require a lot of activities. You will
need to be sure that the cluster of countries that should be
working together have sufficient will to move ahead and you
will need to understand the institutional and market
environments of the potentially participating countries. There
will be a need for studies and consultations nationally and
regionally, and mechanisms must be identified for moving the
reform process ahead. Once you have made enough progress to
obtain local or international donor support, you will have to
carefully define your objectives and the means of tracking
progress through performance indicators. Transparency and
dialogue in tracking these indicators will be vital. The
findings will often require readjustments and increased
efforts in order to move ahead.
Although the
steps in the process would vary from country to country, the
box below suggests the flow of the various steps that must
be taken into account in developing the process. The Bank
TTFSE Team has actively assisted the eight countries in the
TTFSE Program through the various steps necessary to build
their program. It is likely that such donor support would
be necessary to help you launch a similar program for your
country or region. Often this support may be provided by
several donors and/or international agencies. Effective
coordination of this support is vital to program success.
Launching
a Trade Facilitation Program: Flow of Supportive Steps
- Preliminary
Identification of Issue(s) for Change
- Survey of Arena for
Regional Collaboration
- Country Analysis
- Definition of
Major Constraints
- Institutional
Assessment
- Specific Studies
- Stakeholder
Analysis
- Identification of
Mechanisms for Interaction
- National and/or
Regional Champions
- Task Forces
- Legal Changes
- Procedural/operational
changes
- Interagency
Collaboration
- Forum: Identification
of key issues
- National
Committees
- Regional Steering
Committee
- Development of Action
Plan or Strategic Plan
- Setting of Action Plan
within Project Context of Donor/local Funding
- Identification of
Performance Indicators
- Monitoring and
Evaluation
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