Activities will focus on supporting Mozambique to increase its international trade capacity by improving trade policy formulation and management capacities and helping to address supply constraints.

Through these interventions, progress towards eradicating extreme poverty shall be made (MDG1) and an equitable global partnership for development shall be fostered (MDG 8). UNDP’s support will focus on the development of the government’s institutional capacity to lead and manage the Enhanced IF, with a particular focus on the Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MIC).

A key activity will be the development of a national trade policy including national export strategy and export product- and service-based value chain strategies, which will, in turn orientate subsequent support in order to stimulate and promote those sectors and sub-sectors prioritized under the strategy.

Projects will be implemented by various national EIF institutions to enhance the general business environment related to trade, to improve trade facilitation services and to ease constraints in accessing information and business development services.

Specific projects will be designed to tackle problems mainly related to the supply capacity of priority sectors identified by the Diagnostic Trade Integration Strategy (DTIS). A Growing Sustainable Businesses (GSB) initiative will be established and will facilitates partnerships within the private sector to support the development of commercially viable business investments that have a positive impact on poverty reduction.

Under the local development focus of the CPAP 2007-09 UNDP will seek to focus the implementation of this work in the three provinces where it is concentrating support. The use of resources detailed in this AWP are subject to IF procedures.

Donor Project Number: 00064333

Mozambique Budget Project Number: 410100000

Donor: UNDP

Duration: 01.02.2007 – 31.12.2009

Project Status: Ongoing

Funding Type: Grant On Budget (for 2007) Project

Total Project Funding: US $ 1,010,000

Total Committed (UN Core Funding): US $ 1,010,000

Total Disbursed: US $ 610.000

Total Disbursed until end of 2004: US $ 0

Undisbursed: US $ 400,000

Partners/Donors:

• Partner name: Germany / GTZ

Committed funds (up to date): US $ 10.000

• Partner name: IFTF

Committed funds (up to date): US $ 1.000.000

Disbursements to Date (Year):

Disbursements Forecast:

UNDP Contact: Alfred K'Ombudo

Telephone: +258 21481 444/427

Email: alfred.kombudo@undp.org

DAC Codes and Sector: 33110 Trade policy and administrative management

Government Counterpart: Institutions and Agencies

Location: National

MDG's:

• Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
  Target 1: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day
  Target 2: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
• Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
  Target 4: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and to all levels of education no later than 2015
• Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
  Target 9: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources
  Target 10: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation
  Target 11: By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers
• Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development
  Target 12: Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system (Includes a commitment to good governance, development, and poverty reduction – both nationally and internationally)
  Target 13: Address the Special Needs of the Least Developed Countries (Includes: tariff and quota free access for LDC exports; enhanced programme of debt relief for HIPC and cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous ODA for countries committed to poverty reduction)
  Target 16: In co-operation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth
  Target 18: In co-operation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications

Last Update: 15.08.2007