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The World Bank contribution to Almaty POA

The World Bank contribution to Almaty POA. The Almaty Programme of Action. World Bank POA Activities. Projects (IBRD-IDA) portfolio Technical assistance: the TFF, partnerships Knowledge production and dissemination => Key findings and lessons for the Almaty POA.

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The World Bank contribution to Almaty POA

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  1. The World Bank contribution to Almaty POA The Almaty Programme of Action.

  2. World Bank POA Activities • Projects (IBRD-IDA) portfolio • Technical assistance: the TFF, partnerships • Knowledge production and dissemination => Key findings and lessons for the Almaty POA.

  3. Part of a broader agenda in Trade Facilitation and Logistics (TFL) • About 8% of our project are TFL • One of our very few themes with a cross sector Global Expert Team (GET-TFL) • Component of broader concerns, also relevant to Almaty: integration and competitiveness, food security, fragile states, environment

  4. 1 Projects Portfolio

  5. Portfolio of Almaty related projects

  6. Portfolio of Almaty related projects (number of projects)

  7. By region (2003-2012) IBRD-IDA

  8. Projects typology • Specific road or rail corridor • Regional integration, connectivity • National capacity e.g. customs and border management. • Agro supply chains

  9. Key active projects • CEMAC TTF (Douala Corridor) • West Africa (Tema Ouaga) • North-South Corridor Africa • Central Corridor East Africa • Afghanistan (new tranche customs support), and Pakistan (national corridor) • Kazakhstan (Western corridor, customs support) • Silk road countries (connectivity project) • Nepal India project (in preparation).

  10. Not just infrastructure: Project Design & linkages • The objective of improving service delivery for traders implies to combine: • Investment in infrastructure. • Institutional capacity building • Regulatory reforms • => Combine and balance support to investment and TA-CB

  11. 2 Technical Assistance

  12. What is the Trade Facilitation Facility (TFF) Multi-donor trust fund ~ 40MUSD Managed by the World Bank TRADE FACILITATION FACILITY Support concrete improvements in TF systems Help reduce developing countries’ trade costs Emphasis on Africa/low-income countries Beneficiary ownership: request from countries REC

  13. Focus Areas Border management Improvement in border management in a broad sense: integration of customs, product standards, tax, rules of origin, etc. Improvement in the management of key trade related infrastructure, especially gateways and multimodal facilities Trade Infrastructure Logistics services Improvement of the quality/professionalism of private logistics services, through technical/economic regulation and capacity building Regional trade facilitation including transit systems Regional Performance monitoring and indicators: e.g., data on time, cost, and reliability along corridors Indicators Development and implementation of comprehensive action plan addressing all of the above Action plan

  14. Examples of TA relevant to Almaty • Performance management in customs (Cameroon, Togo) • Trade Facilitation CEMAC (improvement of transit regime on Douala corridor) • Authorized Economic Operators (AEO) in West Africa • DRC TTF TA • Support to SACU • SSATP; Eastern and Southern Africa corridor study

  15. Examples of TA (2) • Hidrovia • Central America TTF • Central Asia: TTFA and performance measurements • GMS (corridor performance), Vietnam TTF • In preparation, South Asia (Nepal, India, Bangladesh), UEMOA

  16. 3 Knowledge Production and dissemination

  17. Some recent knowledge contributions Soon: Corridor Management toolkit

  18. Data • LPI • May 2012 • Regional briefs, LLDCs findings available • Trade costs dataset (WB+UNESCAP), LLDC findings available • Others: • Doing business (e.g. cost of starting a business) • ICAs

  19. Other knowledge relevant to POA • Border Management Handbook • Freight Transport Toolkit Plus • Trucking services agreements database • Port performance and revision of “TRS” • Revision of the compendium of SSA legal instruments • Research Dpt (DEC) outputs: Trade costs, services, impact of A4T…

  20. => Key findings and lessons for the Almaty POA

  21. What are the lessons for Transit Corridors and Almaty POA? • Not a lack of: • Infrastructure (road, borders, IT…) • Legal framework … which are the traditional areas of focus. • But lack of implementation mechanism for transit, dysfunctional markets for logistics services, and governance.

  22. The potential for trade cost reduction is … in two key policy areas: • Transit systems and processes to move goods on corridors: simplify processes, ensure effective implementation mechanisms, and reduce multiple clearance, differentiated treatment of operators • Logistics Services market: Align incentives for efficient transport and transit operations, liberalization and competition, phase out anti-competitive practices such as cartels and queuing system wherever possible. => Reforms and implementation implies TA activities both at the regional (sub-regional RECs) and the national level.

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