The UNECE in collaboration with the United Nations Inter-Agency Cluster on Trade and Productive Capacity and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM), is organizing a conference on 30-31 May 2013 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva to support economic growth in the Mediterranean region.
The Conference, which will feature high-level participation from the Mediterranean region, will discuss action-oriented initiatives that could be pursued by parliaments and governments in the Mediterranean region in the areas of trade policy, trade facilitation, investment attraction, productive capacity development, job creation, transport and energy development and risk management in trade.
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The CEB Inter-Agency Cluster on Trade and Productive Capacity is an inter-agency mechanism dedicated to the coordination of trade and development operations at the national and regional levels within the UN system.
Members of the Cluster provide assistance in the areas of trade policy and productive capacity building, in particular supply side capacity; export capacity; capacity to implement trade and trade-related rules; dispute settlement capacity; negotiating capacity; as well as in research and analysis
The Cluster, makes a concrete and direct contribution to the UN system-wide coherence reform by coordinating its participation in the:
- Delivering as One UN Pilots and countries involved in a new UNDAF process, and
- United Nations Development Group (UNDG) machinery, in view of the formulation of new United Nations rules and standard mechanisms for development operations.
Membership
The Cluster has an open-ended membership and is led by UNCTAD. Current Cluster members include UNIDO, UNDP, ITC, FAO, WTO, UNEP, ILO, UNCITRAL, UNOPS and the five UN Regional Commissions.
Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM)Member States: Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Palestine, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Syrian Arab Republic, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Tunisia, Turkey
Associate and Partner States: Romania, The Holy See