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Guidelines for Identifying Aid for Trade Indicators

This symposium highlights the importance of context, mainstreaming, and donors' response indicators in monitoring Aid for Trade. Learn about guidelines for effective indicator identification and regional applications. Contact David Luke for more information.

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Guidelines for Identifying Aid for Trade Indicators

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  1. The Case for Indicators of Context, Trade Mainstreaming and Donors’ response Symposium on Monitoring and Evaluation: Identifying Indicators for Monitoring Aid for Trade Geneva, 15-16 September 2008 David Luke Senior Adviser and Coordinator, Trade and Human Development Unit UNDP Geneva Office

  2. Outline • Guidelines for identifying indicators • Case for context indicators • Case for mainstreaming indicators and donors’ response • Regional applications

  3. Guidelines for Identifying AfT Indicators • Provide factual information about implementation and progress • Not try to point to possible causation between different variables • Universal coverage or as near universal coverage as possible with consensus on validity • Story emerging should be recognizable and conducive to a constructive dialogue focused on where further improvements are required.

  4. Guidelines for Identifying AfT Indicators • The final product should not aim at researchers and analysts, or becoming a diagnostic or evaluation tool for programming. • It should not aim to be comprehensive. • The indicators should remain a political tool for assessing overall trends and progress. • Presentation should be based as much as possible on benchmarking and cross-country comparisons. • Final product is easily readable, non-judgmental and accessible.

  5. Context Indicators • Readily available • Contextualize other indicators • Benchmark progress to acheiving internationally-agreed goals

  6. Mainstreaming and donors’ response indicators • Task Force definition of AFT • Mainstreaming reflects political commitment to integrate trade in development strategies • Identification of clear priorities as basis for engaging partners • Donors’ response to partner countries’ efforts on mainstreaming equally important and central to Paris Declaration principles • AfT should be seen within the larger context of the WTO coherence mandate

  7. Regional applications • Context, mainstreaming, and donor response indicators also apply regionally • Examples

  8. Thank you David.luke@undp.org

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