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Human Resource Development Section/TrainForTrade 2013 1

Sustainable Tourism for Development

Angola Dominique Verdugo

Naples, 10-11 July 2013 Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples

Summer School on Project Management


TRAINING & CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAMME FOR INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Human Resources Development Section (HRDS)/TrainForTrade programme (TFT)


UNCTAD SNAPSHOT• Established in 1964 in Geneva

• Only UN body to deal with all aspects of trade, investment and development

• UNCTAD XIII: Doha, Qatar - 2012

• 194 member States / 600 staffs / 350 projects

• Budgets (70 M regular + 40 M extra USD)

• Goal: Help developing countries to ensure development gains from trade, investment and finance and to participate fully in the world economy

3 Pillars:

1. Technical Assistance 2. Consensus Building 3. Research and Policy Analysis


UNCTAD SNAPSHOT


HRDS/TFT AT A GLANCE

Mission: Strengthening knowledge and skills through innovative approaches for sustainable economic development

Objectives:Build sustainable networks of knowledge to promote transparency and good practicesEncourage development-oriented trade policy to reduce povertyPromote ICT solutions and innovative thinking to enhance capacities of international trade players


TFT OUTPUTS IN 2012

• 62 courses • 526 trade operators,

including 24% women• 36 developing

countries, 11 LDCs• 5 train-the-trainers

courses for 94 trade operators

• 361 trainees were trained by local trainers


TFT CORE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE ACTIVITIES

• Create national committees and sub-committees • Conduct periodic needs assessments and identify priority actions• Team up international and national experts to develop and deliver capacity building activities (face-to-face and e-learning)• Develop networks and a supporting web platform• Identify national potential trainers and technical facilitators • Train the national trainers and technical facilitators • Support project stakeholders and national trainers in replicating capacity development activities (on-line & face-to-face) at the national and provincial level• Conduct studies in cooperation with national stakeholders to gather information and provide input for policy recommendations• Organise study tours for government representatives to identify best practices in other countries and exchange on lessons learned• Hold national events to build on findings from field studies and study tours• Advisory services


TFT COMPONENTS

Investment issues: 1. Negotiation of

International Investment Agreements

2. Dispute Prevention Policies

3. Investment Promotion4. FDI Statistics

Trade related issues:1. Sustainable tourism project planning2. Sustainable tourism for development3. Carbon market and climate change4. Formulation of competition law and policy5. Competition law and policy for practitioners6. Consumer protection7. Legal aspects of electronic commerce8. Electronic commerce for practitioners9. International trade statistics10. Productive capacities, economic growth and poverty reduction11. International procedures for trade financing


TFT ANGOLA PROJECT 2007-2011

• 6 components: Modern Port Management, Investment, Trade Policies, Consumer Protection, Climate Change, Sustainable Tourism – financed by EU

• 21 training activities - 2 publications• 700 managers and government officials trained• 25 international experts and 17 national specialists


Sustainable Tourism for DevelopmentTraining 2009 - 2011

• National and provincial MINHOTUR officials trained

• Participation of 16 Provincial Directors

• Private sector representatives

• E-learning course and Face-to-Face seminars

• Former students trained as trainers ToT


Technical Assistance2-week study tour in Mozambique for 2 Senior MINHOTUR officials



Technical AssistanceRestitution Workshop

• The 2 national officials presented in a plenary at MINHOTUR the results of their study tour in Mozambique

• Discussion of implications and lessons learned for Angola



Technical AssistancePublication of a regional sustainable tourism assessment

Sustainable Tourism in the Republic of Angola: Province of Benguela

Collaboration between an international expert and a national consultant



ANGOLA: TFT-GSB PROJECT 2013

• “Growing Sustainable Business” (GSB) Project in Angola – financed by UNDP Angola / Spanish Cooperation Agency AECID

Components: “Sustainable Tourism for Development”

“Productive Capacities and Poverty Reduction in LDCs: The Example of Angola” (Luanda)

"Managing Sustainable Tourism Projects“

Angola


A project is defined by change!

Project beneficiaries and local stakeholders are taking responsibilities for making tourism more sustainable

in Angola



• Civil society: economical benefits

• Public sector: environmental benefits

• Business sector: social benefits



Civil society: supply chain development


Increasing local economic benefits connecting inland rural local honey producers to coastal hotels


Public sector: decision making

From lessons learned in Mozambique during two-weekstudy tour


Decision taken for reducing negative impacts on the environment of a tourism project on the Island of Luanda


Business sector: local employment


Increasing recruitment among local island community members by hotel manager on Mussulo Island


Change is emerging from action-oriented learning



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