ABOUT

The Trade and Investment Advocacy Fund (TAF2+) offers support to the poorest developing countries to help them engage in vital trade negotiations.

From 2011-2016, the previous fund (TAF) provided on-demand technical assistance to developing countries. TAF2+, a six-year programme, will build on the previous fund’s successful provision of assistance and increase the technical skills and coordination of trade and investment ministries in developing countries.

TAF2+ aims

• Establish and maintain a demand-led call down facility
• Help more developing countries effectively participate – to their advantage- in trade and investment negotiations
• Increase the technical skills and coordination of trade and investment ministries in developing countries
• Create a clear focus on using trade and investment negotiations to address poverty and social exclusion
• Take a strategic ‘portfolio’ approach to deliver targeted, high impact interventions
• Use collaborative approaches to maximise the Fund’s relevance and buy-in from partners
• Build sustainability through institutional capacity development
• Focus on results and evidence-based knowledge and learning
• Build value for money into all that we do.

TAF2+ will run over six years with a total programme budget of £14 million. The Fund will have three windows of support:

1. Negotiation Window , which will provide short-term technical support to any developing countries during a negotiation;
2. Strategic Window , that provides medium to long-term technical support to FCDO priority countries prior to, and initially after, a negotiation (such as country level trade analysis and strategy planning);
3. FCDO Country Office window  that provides highly technical trade advice