Establishing Well Functioning National Trade Facilitation Bodies (NTFBs)
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27. If this is the case:
i) What major items are covered by it?
ii) What are the sources of funding? (donors, government, private, an international
organization, or a combination of any of these)
28. Are there any measures to expand the sources of funding?
Objectives / Focus
29. What are the objectives of the TF body?
30. Does the TF body have a working plan?
31. How do you monitor progress in implementing the working plan?
32. How often, and in which form and to whom is the TF body reporting?
33. Has the NTFB a defined mandate?
34. If there is a working plan, has it ever been modified or updated?
Participation
35. Does the TF body meet regularly?
36. What is the level of participation in each of the meetings?
37. Do you use different meetings formats (such as focus groups, brainstorming, citizen jury's, etc.)?
38. How many meetings the NTFBs have conducted since its constitution?
39. How often does the NTFBs gets together?
40. What is the approximatively share of attendance
41. Which type of stakeholders are most active at the meetings
42. From 0-10, please grade the commitment of public agencies towards the NFTB
43. From 0-10, please grade the commitment of the private sector towards the NFTB
Promotion / Communication
44. How do you keep all stakeholders informed of the TF body's meetings and new documents,
upcoming events, etc.?
45. How does the TF body interface with other working groups/committees working on similar
issues?
46. Do you undertake special information session for the general public or particular stakeholders?
47. Which is the tool that is used for stakeholders to get together? (e.g. group/personalized email,
telephone, fax, etc.)
48. What are the communication mechanisms between stakeholders, how often is there
communication
49. How do the communication and cooperation mechanisms between international organizations
and the NTFB work?
50. From 0-10, please grade how an electronic tool will help to improve the outputs of the NTFB
51. Is there a website that shows the work of the NTFB?
52. Is there a specific person on charge of providing the information for this update?
Benefits
53. What was the impact of the work of the group?
54. How does it benefit your country's responsiveness to the WTO TFA implementation process?
55. Have there been concrete operational outcomes?
Lessons learned