What is next on the Aid for Trade Roadmap?
The Aid for Trade Roadmap for 2008 was presented by the WTO Director General (DG) at the WTO Committee on Trade and Development (CTD) on 25 February 2008. The Roadmap calls among other issues for fine-tuning the self-assessment questionnaires of the WTO/OECD. In 2008, the OECD will convene targeted outreach events in key recipient countries of AFT to reiterate the importance of the partners’ questionnaires. Other key achievements expected in 2008 are the identification of performance indicators for AFT, AFT reviews, as well as the establishment of regional AFT networks. An expert symposium on monitoring and evaluation was held in fall 2008. AFT Reviews will be organised in late 2008, early 2009 at the national and sub-regional levels in selected countries to assess AFT plans, to identify key priorities, and to agree on how these plans and priorities should be implemented. The second AFT Global Review is scheduled to take place in spring/summer 2009. An annotated AFT Roadmap presenting
