With initial financing from the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), the A-CIP Programme currently supports 17 beneficiary countries under a bilateral component. More WCO members have shown interest in being part of the Programme, and A-CIP is open to inclusion of support from other donors which could enable more WCO Members to benefit from the Programme’s targeted technical assistance and capacity building.
The A-CIP Programme complements other WCO initiatives. One of them is the WCO Mercator Programme, which offers a results-based approach. Many of the articles World Trade Organization’s Trade Facilitation Agreement (WTO TFA) call for transparency and predictability, promoting integrity and closing opportunities for corruption.
For more details, please contact capacity.building@wcoomd.org