Title: Capacity building for export competitiveness of women-led SMEs and standards promotion in cosmetology sector in Africa Project Location: Accra, Ghana and Nairobi, Kenya The overall objective of the project was to promote shea exports for cosmetics in regional and international markets, and the uptake of standards for cosmetology, thereby contributing to sustainable economic development, [...]
Support to Agricultural Value Chain Actors for Promoting Quality and Improving the Competitiveness of Togo
Private Sector Development, Standards and Technical Barriers
Title: Support to Agricultural Value Chain Actors for Promoting Quality and Improving the Competitiveness of Togo Project Location: Lomé, Togo The Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Programme, funded by the European Union, has awarded a contract to Enabling Environments to support the stakeholders of the agricultural sector in promoting quality and in improving the competitiveness of [...]
Technical Assistance to Rwanda Private Sector Organisations (PSO) and Civil Society Organisations (CSO)
Private Sector Development, Regional Integration, Standards and Technical Barriers, Trade Policy and Negotiations
Title: Technical Assistance to Rwanda Private Sector Organisations and Civil Society Project Location: Rwanda TradeMark East Africa (TMEA), a not for profit organisation which aims to promote regional trade and economic integration in East Africa, has signed a contract with Enabling Environments to provide technical assistance to the Private Sector and Civil Society in Rwanda. The [...]
Support to ACP Group in Geneva
Standards and Technical Barriers, Trade Facilitation, Trade Policy and Negotiations
Title: Support to ACP Group in Geneva Project Location: Geneva The overarching aim of this project was to provide ad-hoc support to the ACP Delegations in Geneva in order to enhance their participatory capabilities in the DDA negotiations by fully promoting and supporting their interests in the negotiations. Enabling Environments fulfilled these objectives by: Increasing [...]
Support to the ACP Group in Geneva for WTO Negotiations and Links to EU-ACP EPA Negotiations
Standards and Technical Barriers, Trade Facilitation, Trade Policy and Negotiations
Title: Call-down support to the ACP Group in Geneva for WTO negotiations and links to EU-ACP EPA negotiations Project Location: Geneva, Switzerland The project is funded by the Trade Advocacy Fund (TAF). Its overall objective is to enable the effective participation of the ACP Group and LDC/LIC ACP-member delegations in WTO trade negotiations and ensure [...]
Comprehensive Study on the CET Rates on Sensitive Items
Regional Integration, Standards and Technical Barriers, Trade Facilitation, Trade Policy and Negotiations
Title: Comprehensive study on the Common External Tariff rates on sensitive items Project Location: East Africa Region (Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda) The study on the Common External Tariff (CET) Rates on sensitive items sought to: Critically analyse the products in the sensitive list; Map out the integration and mainstreaming of sensitive rates into a [...]
COMESA Strategic Plan for Standardization and Quality Assurance
Private Sector Development, Regional Integration, Standards and Technical Barriers, Trade Facilitation
Title: COMESA strategic plan for standardization and quality assurance Project Location: COMESA The overall objective of the project was to enhance the capacity of COMESA quality infrastructure institutions to coordinate and harmonize regional technical regulations, standards and conformity assessment procedures and finally facilitate intra-regional and international trade. The primary objective of the consultancy was to [...]
Strengthening Seychelles Bureau of Standards Conformity Assessment Services
Standards and Technical Barriers, Trade Facilitation
Title: Capacity building to strengthen the Seychelles Bureau of Standards conformity assessment services Project Location: Seychelles The overall objective of this project was to improve the National Quality Infrastructure (NQI) in order to enhance trade competitiveness. The specific objective is to strengthen the capacity of Seychelles Bureau of Standards (SBS) to implement sound national quality [...]