

PROGRAMME-SHEET
P048b: Targeted assistance for the development of an enabling environment for e-commerce in the Pacific Region
Status | [ From 2019-05-09] |
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Region | Pacific |
Project type | Regional |
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The support programme aimed at providing targeted support to assess the opportunities for and the underlying obstacles to the development of e-Commerce in the Pacific, and to develop a regional and sub-regional e-Commerce Strategy with a corresponding roadmap for implementation.
Two-fold purposes: To assess the opportunities for and the underlying obstacles to the development of e-Commerce in the Pacific; and to develop, validate and disseminate a regional and sub-regional e-Commerce Strategy with a corresponding roadmap for implementation.
Three-fold outputs:
- Completed Pacific e-commerce assessment document, with MSG-specific section;
- Legal, regulatory and institutional review document/information;
- Blueprint document on e-commerce and implementation roadmaps.
Intervention areas:
- E-Commerce enabling environment in the Pacific region;
- Regional integration;
- Trade policy development;
- Assessment of the key policy areas (Strategy Formulation, ITC Infrastructure and Services, Trade Logistics and Facilitation, Payment Solutions, Legal and Regulatory Frameworks, e-Commerce Skills Development, and Access to Finance for e-Commerce).
Purpose 1: To assess the opportunities for and the underlying obstacles to the development of e-Commerce in the Pacific
- Field mission in Fiji and targeted countries;
- Consultations with stakeholders in PIFS and MSG Member States partially carried-out;
- Regional diagnostic study/situation analysis;
- PIF Regional E-Commerce Assessment prepared;
- MSG sub-regional E-commerce Assessment;
- Four Country assessments modelled on the e-T.Ready prepared and disseminated country-specific detailed questionnaires, targeting the public and private sectors prepared, submitted and analysed;
- E-commerce readiness and best/good practices identified for the 4 selected FIC: Fiji, PNG, Niue and FSM are selected as target countries;
- Online consultations are being conducted in all key countries in order to complement the information received during the mission (in the case of Fiji), and in order to get a first-hand picture of the status of e-commerce in the country;
- National Assessments have been drafted and submitted to the Beneficiaries for
- Fiji,
- Niue,
- Papua New Guinea;
- FSM;
- Remote meeting to apprise key stakeholders of the results and obtain comments.
Purpose 2: to develop, validate and disseminate a regional and sub-regional e-Commerce Strategy with a corresponding roadmap for implementation
- Regional blueprint e-commerce prepared and approved by the Beneficiary
- Sub-Regional blueprint for the MSG prepared and approved by the Key Beneficiary
- Training and PP presentations on E-Commerce Assessment prepared and presented;
- Presentation materials for capacity building training under the National Component;
- Regional Workshop on E-Commerce (remotely) conducted;
- Story line “E-Commerce Good Practice” in Pacific Member States prepared;
- Prepared Interviews and questionnaires to the Key participants
- Visibility videos prepared and shared to the PIF.