Projects
The Conference Board is currently acting as the Executing Agency for the following projects: Evidence-Based Economic Development Planning in Ukraine (EBED) Funding: Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
Budget: C$9.7 million
Duration: February 2009 – March 2015
Project Director: Paul Darby
Project Manager: Dan Lemaire The Conference Board of Canada (CBoC) is undertaking a 5 year project to build capacity in evidence-based economic development (EBED) planning in Ukrainian oblasts and municipalities. This is an important project that will enable the oblast and cities to have increased capacity to use benchmarking and forecasting tools for more robust economic planning. EBED will focus on training regional officials from targeted oblasts and municipalities in the use of sophisticated tools to meet many requirements of economic development planning. The tools include benchmarking, and demographic, economic and fiscal forecasting models. They will provide a forward looking element to the economic development plans, which is a critical component to the planning process. The EBED partners in Ukraine include the following: - Ministry of Economy – Beneficiary
- Ministry of Housing and Municipal Economy – Beneficiary
- Ministry of Regional Development and Construction - Beneficiary
- City of Lviv – Recipient
- City of Dnipropetrovsk – Recipient
- City of Drohobych – Recipient
- City of Chervonohrad – Recipient
- City of Kryvyi Rih – Recipient
- City of Nikopol – Recipient
- Dnipropetrovsk Oblast – Recipient
- Lviv Oblast – Recipient
- National Academy of Public Administration – Recipient
Canada-Americas Trade Related Technical Assistance Program (CATRTA) Funding: Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
Budget: C$17 million
Duration: October 2009 – March 2015
Project Director: Joanne Warren
Project Manager: Dan Lemaire Canada Americas Trade Related Technical Assistance (CATRTA) is designed to meet the priority needs of Canada and Canadian FTA partner countries and sub-regions in the Americas that are focus countries of CIDA. The focus countries include Peru, Colombia, the CARICOM region and Honduras. The technical assistance will be delivered to government entities, the private sector and civil society on a regional, hemispheric or bilateral basis by Canadian and international experts from public and private organizations. The goal of the CATRTA program is to assist CIDA country partners in Latin America and the Caribbean to maximize the opportunities and benefits of increased trade and investment through their bilateral FTAs with Canada and thus contributing to the reduction of poverty and the promotion of sustainable development. The program includes the following activity groups: - a focus on specific sub-project themes to enhance the capacity of the region to maximize the effectiveness of the environment and labour side agreements to the FTAs with Canada, as well as address specific capacity weaknesses regarding sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures, trade facilitation, technical barriers to trade, trade promotion, labour and environmental side agreements;
- support to technical cooperation mechanisms in order to strengthen the Technical Cooperation Mechanisms created under the FTAs;
- monitoring, evaluation and knowledge management to promote learning and dissemination of lessons learned through the program.
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