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What assistance can be requested?
To be eligible, projects or project preparation grants
must address one or more of the following three themes:
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Theme 1: SPS capacity
evaluation and planning tools, including the need for and implications
of international standards and their application.
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Theme 2: Capacity
building for public and private organizations, notably with respect
to market access.
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Theme 3: Information
sharing on standards and co-ordination of technical co-operation activities.
The main objective of the project must be to:
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Enhance capacity to meet
official or commercial requirements in the sanitary and phytosanitary
field and so gain or maintain market access; and
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Better protect human and
animal health and plants against disease and pest hazards related to
cross border trade.
The proposal should quantify project benefits for beneficiaries,
in particular poverty reduction effects for smallholders and other producers,
improve employment opportunities, improve domestic and, where applicable,
regional SPS situation. The project should be a cost-effective contribution
to resolving a specific SPS implementation issue.
The proposal should describe how the project relates
to past, present or planned SPS-related projects offered in the beneficiary
country or beneficiary countries. Projects which build on previous or
on-going projects, or which are new interventions, will be funded. Projects
should not normally be longer than two years in duration.
Projects whose main objective is to address environmental
or labour standards are not funded by the STDF. The Facility supports
projects whose aim is to achieve compliance with commercial standards
only as part of a broader market access strategy which also fulfils SPS
requirements. The STDF does not "officially" endorse commercial
schemes or fund projects whose sole focus is on compliance with a commercial
standard. Projects whose primary aim is the delivery of workshops will
only be funded if they are training-based and accompanied by a set of
tangible outputs in the trainees’ home countries.
The STDF will not provide funding for buildings, vehicles
or major equipment items, with the qualified exception of information
technology and laboratory equipment. The STDF will not fund pure scientific
research.
Examples of eligible activities
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Examples
of eligible activities
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Theme
1:
SPS capacity evaluation and planning tools, including the need for
and implications of international standards and their application.
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- Development
of capacity evaluation and planning tools – sector, region
or country specific.
- Support for
participatory country or sector specific surveys, including the
preparation of action plans.
- Support in
understanding and use of risk analysis methodologies.
- Assessment
of impact of proposed commercial standards and new standards implemented
by trading partners.
- Training
for national officials to analyse the implications of SPS standards
in development.
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Theme
2:
Capacity building for public and private organizations, notably with
respect to market access.
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- Strengthening
of public-private dialogue and partnerships in the food safety,
animal health and plant health area.
- Training
and assistance in adapting domestic legislation to international
standards and commercial market requirements.
- Establishment
and maintenance of disease and pest surveillance databases and
reporting systems.
- Support
to improve institutional capacity to engage in market access negotiations
related to food safety, animal health and plant health.
- Applied
research for developing good agricultural practice, good laboratory
practice and good manufacturing practice.
- Advisory
services and training of staff in the fields of food safety, animal
or plant health.
- Strengthening
farmers' and/or professional service provider organizations, and
trade and industry associations in contributing to better management
of SPS standards.
- Analytical
support to identify potential markets and their SPS requirements,
including collecting data for risk analysis.
- Support
in achieving recognition of disease or disease freedom or for
areas of low pest or disease freedom – technical, legal
and institutional aspects.
- Applied
research for analyzing, assessing and solving SPS obstacles to
gaining and maintaining market access.
- Feasibility
studies for important investments, such as establishment of pest
and disease free zones, or sanitation and quarantine systems.
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Theme
3:
Information sharing on standards and co-ordination of technical co-operation
activities. |
- Collection
of SPS training materials.
- Maintenance
of database on SPS-related technical co-operation activities.
- Analysing
information on official and commercial SPS requirements, in particular
at a regional level.
- Activities
furthering the co-ordination of SPS-related technical
co-operation.
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