Aid for Trade Global Review 2024

Background

This year’s Global Review takes place against the backdrop of many simultaneous challenges facing the multilateral trading system and development cooperation. In a world of multiple crises, trade, which has been an unparalleled catalyst for poverty reduction, is under pressure from multiple perspectives. Development cooperation is also challenged by an increasingly diverse range of calls for its use and pressure on public budgets post-pandemic.

Against this background the Global Review will discuss the role of Aid for Trade in supporting food security, digital connectivity and trade mainstreaming.

Successive Global Reviews have been instrumental in helping to galvanize support to address supply-side and trade-related infrastructure obstacles so that developing countries can derive maximum benefit from international trade.

Thematic Session Request Form

A call for proposals to organise sessions as the Global Review was circulated on 29 January 2024 (WT/COMTD/AFT/W/99).

Requests to organize thematic sessions should be made using this online form: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GR24SideEventsEN.

The deadline for the submission of thematic session requests is 31 March 2024.