The services will involve provision of technical advice, analysis, training and capacity building in the following thematic areas:
• Legal and regulatory aspects: This includes among others regulations and a masterplan for Special Economic Zones, investment and export promotion, review of domestic foreign trade legislation and gap analysis, a national standardisation strategy relating to products and production processes.
• Support to value chain development for sectors such as cosmetics, charcoal, gemstones, seafood, mineral beneficiation.
• Enhancing information for policy making, including surveys, statistics, input-output matrices, economic analysis.
• Business and product development: This includes market research, business advisory services (entrepreneurship and management training), product competitiveness and development, B2B networking and facilitation.
Beneficiaries: Ministry of Trade, other public and private sector org.