E248: Maintainance and update of the UN Trade Facilitation Implementation Guide

 

 

Part I. Planning (to be filled in before submission to EXCOM)			Part II. Implementation (to be used for reporting on progress in the implementation of the project in real time)1,2
Expected accomplishments	Planned activities	Estimated costs (US$)	Implemented activities3	Actual expenditures4 (US$)3
EA 1: Enhanced understanding of trade facilitation tools, techniques, standards and other resources by trade officials and trade facilitation specialists from developing countries and transition economies.	A1.1   Maintaining and updating of the Trade Facilitation Implementation Guide	49,800	Content updated with two additional intineraries, three country-case studies, two updated country-case studies, two new pages on international organization profiles, and  the update of ten international organization profiles.   …	47,672
	A1.2  Developing new content, revising existing materials, streamlining  the maintenance procedure and adding new Trade Facilitation modules/itinerary	52,325	Obtaining outside expertise of International consultants inter alia for preparing: updated content of TFIG and related training materials.	30,000
			Travel and DSA costs of project staff and regular staff to enable their participation at meetings, workshops and seminars under the TFIG project	4,054
			One General Service staff for 2 months to assist the implementation and completion of the project	15,117
			Procurement of USB devices containing the up-to-date version of TFIG	3,276
	A1.3  Translation of the updated content into Arabic, French, Russian and Spanish	25,000	Translation of two new itineraries and updated content from English into French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic. Translation of the training material from English into French, Russian and Spanish	11,742
	A1.4: Operating and other direct costs	100.00	Stationary materials	39
13% of Programme Support Costs				14,547
Total:		127,125	Total:	126,447

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¹ The secretariat shall inform EXCOM in case of unexpected developments or serious problems of any kind in the project implementation.
² Questions from member States on project implementation will be forwarded to the secretariat.
³ Relevant information should be uploaded by the project manager on the Project Monitoring Tool within one month from the end of the activity and include the following:
(a) For an advisory service (including at a workshop/seminar/training organized by other organizations): title; venue; dates; project expenditures; and hyperlink(s) to presentation(s) and other relevant documents;
(b) For a workshop/conference/training organized by UNECE: title; venue; dates; project expenditures; and hyperlinks to the meeting agenda, list of participants, presentation(s) made by UNECE, conference documents, training materials and reports;
(c) For a consultancy: project expenditures; hyperlinks to the consultancy ToR and main outputs (study, report, training material, presentation, etc.) produced by the consultant/s;
(d) For other outputs not included under bullet points above: hyperlink to relevant documents.  
^[1] Relevant financial information – certified by the Executive Office - should be uploaded by the project manager on the Project Monitoring Tool within one month from the end of the activity.