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Oct 31

2025
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Geneva

Switzerland

ATELIER CIR/BANQUE MONDIALE

EIF/World Bank Workshop

 

Strengthening the relevance and use of the Diagnostic Trade Integration Study (DTIS)

 

19 April, Room E, WTO

2:30-5:30 p.m.

 

 

Programme

 

2:30 – 2:40 p.m.

 

Opening Remarks

 
  • Executive Secretariat for the EIF, Ratnakar Adhikari, Executive Director
  • World Bank (Washington, D.C., via VC), José Guilherme Reis, Practice
       Manager, Trade

 

 

2:40 – 3:10 p.m.

 

Theme I: Role and Relevance

Panel discussion

 
  • Moderator: Executive Secretariat for the EIF, Christiane Kraus,
       Chief Coordinator

 

  • Introductory remarks:
    • Executive Secretariat for the EIF, Simon Hess, Coordinator
    • World Bank, Marcus Bartley Johns, Trade Specialist

 

  • Discussants:
    • Samoa, Justin Lima, Principal Foreign  Service Officer, Trade Division,
         Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Acting EIF Focal Point
    • Germany, Jan Hendrik Schmitz-Guinote, Counsellor, Permanent Mission
         of Germany
    • UNDP, Luisa Bernal, Policy Specialist, Trade and Sustainable
         Development

 

3:10 – 3:30 p.m.

Floor discussion

 

3:30 – 4:00 p.m.

 

Theme II: Quality, Effectiveness, Accessibility and Implementation

Panel discussion

 
  • Moderator: World Bank, Marcus Bartley Johns, Trade Specialist

 

 

 

  • Introductory remarks:
    • Executive Secretariat for the EIF, Hang TT Tran, Coordinator
    • World Bank, Mombert Hoppe, Senior Trade Economist

 

  • Discussants:
    • Burkina Faso, Nazaire Paré, Director General of Ministry of Trade,
         Industry and Handicraft, EIF Focal Point and EIF Board Member
    • United Kingdom, Sacha Silva, Senior Trade for Development Policy
         Adviser, Permanent Mission of the United Kingdom
    • UNCTAD, Patrick Osakwe, Head, Trade and Poverty Branch, Division
         for Africa, LDCs and Special Programmes

 

4:00 – 4:20 p.m.

Floor discussion

4:20 – 4:30 p.m.

Coffee Break

 

4:30 – 5:00 p.m.

 

Theme III:  Ownership and Sustainability

Panel discussion

 
  • Moderator:Executive Secretariat for the EIF, Jonathan Werner, Coordinator

 

  • Introductory remarks:
    • Executive Secretariat for the EIF, Mbaye Ndiaye, Coordinator

 

  • Discussants:
    • World Bank, Mombert Hoppe, Senior Trade Economist
    • Cambodia, Chhieng Pich, Director of the Department of International
         Cooperation, Ministry of Commerce, and NIU Coordinator
    • Finland, Antti Piispanen, Commercial Counsellor, Department of External
         Economic Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and EIF Board Member

 

5:00 – 5:20 p.m.

Floor discussion

5:20 – 5:30 p.m.

 

 

Summary

 
  • Executive Secretariat for the EIF, Christiane Kraus, Chief Coordinator
    • World Bank, Marcus Bartley Johns, Trade Specialist