Under the mandate of the Doha Development Agenda (DDA), it is recognized that trade-related technical assistance (TRTA) and capacity-building (CB) are core elements in the multilateral trading system (MTS). Trade capacity-building is a key delivery component of the Aid-for-Trade work programme, and provides direct support to beneficiary countries in enhancing their human and institutional capacities to deal with the challenges emerging from the MTS.

In order to fulfil the mandate, strengthening coherence in the delivery of TRTA and CB is a central objective of donors and beneficiaries, which requires full coordination between the stakeholders, to ensure transparency in all trade capacity-building efforts.
The "Global Trade-Related Technical Assistance Database (GTAD)" was developed with the objective of being the portal for an exchange and sharing of information between partner agencies on the future execution of TRTA and CB activities. This could also contribute to building and enhancing synergies as well as the efficiency in the global delivery of TRTA and CB.

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