The present study addresses the trade capacity-building needs of the Forum Island Countries (FICs) and Timor Leste with a view to mobilizing Aid-for-Trade (AfT) resources supporting their trade policy and regulations, trade development, trade-related infrastructure, productive capacity building, and trade-related adjustments. It responds to the Pacific ACP (PACP) Trade Ministers’ request in their 27-28 March 2008 meeting in Nadi, Fiji that the Forum Secretariat examines a possible way forward to address, through regional activities and arrangements, the trade-related capacity building needs of the FICs and Timor Leste. The Forum Secretariat has since then responded by undertaking a number of initiatives to address the trade-related capacity building needs of the FICs and Timor Leste. These include conducting national consultations in all 14 FICs, organizing the first RTM on AfT and the PTDF in the Pacific held last October and commissioning the present study on Aft and Project Proposal and Formulation.

Micronesia sub-regional cooperation support in designing strategy and action plan for regional cooperation based on the Asian growth area model for Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federal State of Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and Tuvalu, based on action agenda in prioritized areas within the context of the development program

Sub-regional cooperation support in designing strategy and action plan for regional cooperation based on the Asian growth area model for Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federal State of Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and Tuvalu, based on action agenda in prioritized areas within the context of the development program