About JITAP

The new Multilateral Trading System that emerged from the Uruguay Round of trade agreements poses significant challenges, but can open up new vistas for trade of African countries. JITAP – the Joint Integrated Technical Assistance Programme – mobilizes the expertise and support of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the International Trade Centre (ITC) to help African country partners benefit from the new Multilateral Trading System. JITAP is the first program that the three organizations have established to deliver jointly a broad range of selected technical assistance inputs to a number of countries simultaneously, focusing mainly on capacity building.

In a first stage, eight countries participate in JITAP: Benin, Burkina-Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Tunisia, Uganda, and the United Republic of Tanzania. Four are LDCs. A group of eight new countries was added: Botswana, Cameroon, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Senegal and Zambia Thirteen donors are contributing to the funding of the programme, currently amounting to US$10 million.