P122 - EAC
Targeted Support to Develop the Trade in Services Strategy for the East African Community
BENEFICIARIES
EAC Secretariat
- The East African Community Secretariat;
- The Six Partner States -- Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, United Republic of Tanzania, Uganda and South Sudan;
- Exporting and importing companies ;
- Business community
PROJECT COVERAGE
The overall objective of the support project for which this contract will be a part of is to contribute to sustainable economic development and poverty reduction in the EAC Partner States by the development of a strategy leading to the development of EAC’s services sector and the free movement of services in the region, therefore contributing to the achievement of the SDGs.
Four-fold purposes: To carry-out an assessment of aggregated trends on services trade, supply-side opportunities and challenges impacting on the potential of the EAC countries to develop the services economy and the related export readiness; To review the trade in services institutional and regulatory framework governing and facilitating services in the EAC region and the global enabling environment for sustainable and inclusive EAC services exporters; To develop an EAC Trade in Services Strategy that leads to an increase in services trade and exports for trade in services development and to review the strengths in the underlying enabling environment including priority targets for 2020 to 2030; and to support the validation of the EAC strategy on trade in services
Four-fold Project outputs:
- The Regional EAC Trade in Services Strategy;
- The institutional framework in each of the six EAC Partner States and at regional level an implementing plan developed; and
- An assessment of potential opportunities and impact derived from the commitments on trade in services;
- Sensitization and dissemination of the development of the strategy on trade in services.
Intervention areas:
- Trade in Services,
- Institutional and regulatory framework,
- Private Sector enabling environment,
- Export readiness.
RESULTS ACHIEVED
Purpose 1: To carry-out an assessment of aggregated trends on services trade, supply-side opportunities and challenges impacting on the potential of the EAC countries to develop the services economy and the related export readiness.
- Aggregated trends on Services trade among EAC Partner States, as well as between EAC and the key trading partners identified;
- An assessment of potential opportunities and impact derived from the commitments on trade in services undertaken by the EAC Partner States under the EAC Common Market Protocol (CMP), the GATS and in other regional agreements provided;
- A supply-side and business environment assessment of each EAC Partner States major services both at the regional and global level, including manpower surveys in Partners States to identify skills gaps in the priority services sectors at national level undertaken;
Purpose 2: To review the trade in services institutional and regulatory framework and the global enabling environment for sustainable and inclusive EAC service exporters
- Market entry barriers for services providers among EAC Partner States and barriers in the key trading partners under the regional trading arrangements identified;
- The institutional framework in each of the six EAC Partner States and at regional level for coordinating and promoting services exports reviewed and optimal arrangements proposed;
- The global enabling environment for EAC Partner States’ exporters of services set out and key trends relevant to EAC’s future export performance identified;
Purpose 3: To develop the EAC Trade in Services Strategy that leads to an increase in services trade and exports for trade in services development and to review the strengths in the underlying enabling environment including priority targets for 2020-2030
- The strengths and opportunities in the trading environment and the challenges (weaknesses and threats) to be overcome by EAC exporters to realize the opportunities for the strategy reviewed;
- EAC Partners States’ and EAC Secretariat’s strategic priorities and high-level targets to 2030 for the development of trade in service set;
- An EAC Trade in Services Strategy for most important services sectors to the key trading partners and under the regional trading arrangement developed.
Purpose 4: To support the validation of the EAC strategy on trade in services
- National workshops in the EAC Partner States for the sensitization and dissemination of the development of the strategy on trade in services are co-organized jointly with the EAC Secretariat;
- A workshop for the sensitization, dissemination and validation of the strategy on trade in services and the way forward organized
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