Support for the Implementation of Trade Facilitation Projects in Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe

Provision of technical experts for the implementation of trade facilitation projects: technical and administrative services for the development and implementation of specific trade facilitation measures in partner countries. This includes stakeholder engagement, workshop and training facilitation, and process management. Experts provide expertise in technical fields for change management and capacity building of border agencies. Services include analyses and gap assessments for IT solutions and processes, business process engineering of customs and logistics procedures, technical oversight of IT solution implementation, support for developing and implementing change management plans, development and facilitation of public-private dialogue formats, development of training materials and conduct of trainings (specifically train-the-trainer approaches), and potentially support for scoping Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation projects through fact-finding missions and concept/proposal development. Potential countries for new projects include Brazil, Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya, India, Indonesia, South Africa. The technical areas covered are: 1. Customs modernisation and digitisation (stabilizing and upgrading ASYCUDA and other customs management systems, reviewing customs management processes and drafting Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), supporting customs in piloting and rolling out newly developed IT solutions or re-engineered processes, including specifically for airfreight and express clearance procedures). 2. Support for specific Customs procedures (improving customs workflows for tariff valuation and classification, fall-back and continuity procedures, development and roll-out of advance ruling systems). 3. Risk management, including Authorised Economic Operator Schemes (review of existing risk management approaches, revision of selectivity rules, gap analysis of the policy and regulatory framework and on-the-ground implementation, development and proposal of improved risk management systems, approaches, or specific rules, adaptation or extension of existing approaches and systems to cover additional specialised cases such as perishable goods, express shipments, or low value shipments, development and implementation of preferential schemes for trusted economic operators (Authorised Economic Operator Schemes), pre-arrival processing of manifest information to trigger risk analysis, Post Clearance Audits). 4. Import and export permits/certificates (implementation of the IPPC ePhyto certification solution, development and implementation of processes/digital solutions for issuing electronic certificates for fish exports (eFish) as well as for animal products (eVet), digitisation of line Ministry agencies' import/export permit or certification processes, process re-engineering, improvement of phytosanitary risk management systems, integration of approvals/permits into respective customs management systems and any other relevant platform, revision of workflows and processes). The contractor implements rigorous processes for selecting, preparing, training, and steering the assigned short-term experts.

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