Client: World Trade Organisation
Country: Global
Year:2005
The Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) was established with financing from the World Bank’s Development Grant Facility and has become a multidonor fund supported by the World Health Organisation (WHO), World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and the FAO.
The facility aims to assist developing countries in enhancing their expertise and capacity to analyse and implement international sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) standards; thereby improving their human, animal and plant health situation, and market access. The SDTF is open to public sector entities with responsibility for SPS; private sector entities or partnerships; non-profit, non-governmental organisations with expertise in SPS.
Services provided
Triple Line Consulting was contracted to undertake a review of the STDF from its inception in 2002 until September 2005, to review the administration of the STDF and to make recommendations on such actions as may be necessary to ensure the smooth functioning of the facility in the future.
Achievements
- The Triple Line report and review commended the success of the STDF in getting the facility up and running and that it was at a key turning point and could become asphyxiated by its own success.
- Triple Line provided recommendations to enable the STDF to move from an embryonic facility and set out some management structures and procedures to enable the STDF to run as more of a project management unit.
- The STDF has grown considerably since the Triple Line strategic review and has been extended in its operations to become more of a knowledge hub and information sharing facility on international sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) standards