7 Trade and Investment opportunities

The purpose of this project is to hiring expert services is to identify opportunities for increasing bilateral trade in services by delivering an objective economic - analytical report. This report will seek tangible opportunities for British and Peruvian exporters of services; look into specific sectors and sub-sectors; provide in-depth sectoral analysis; and recommend a direction of focus for trade promotion and trade policy work going forwards.

The overall objective of the project is to provide an ex-ante analysis of the potential economic, social and environmental impacts as well as human rights impacts of a trade negotiation in India. It will facilitate a better policy mix and coherence between the objectives of trade liberalisation and the EU policy objective of sustainable development and respect for human rights. The SIA will assist trade negotiators to fine tuning their position, in order to achieve the objectives set and maximise the contribution of trade policy to all pillars of sustainable development and human rights.

The study will assess and compare the situation in at least 5 countries (necessarily including Argentina and the UK), as well as the impact of policies adopted by the European Union itself. The additional countries to be covered are to be selected from those where the Eat4Change project partners are located, namely: Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Portugal and Sweden. Ideally, the assessment will cover countries with contrasted situations in terms of rates of inflation or types of measures adopted. The final list of countries will be agreed between the contractee and WWF at the start of the project.   The analysis will focus primarily on short-term actions (e.g.interventions to lower the cost of farm inputs to address the immediate consequences of the war in Ukraine, direct support to vulnerable groups) but should also consider long-term structural policies and actions by governments (e.g., subsidies and investment support to specific sectors,...

The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the EU and six countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has been applied since October 2016. It is necessary to launch an ex-post evaluation in order to assess the functioning and impact of the agreement five years after implementation to comply with the obligation under Article 116 of the EPA to review the agreement no later than five years after its entry into force.   The review was launched in November 2021 and the parties need to have at their disposal solid evidence based on research assessing the effects of the EPA in order to carry out the review. The ex-post evaluation will analyse the extent of implementation and compliance on both sides, preliminary outcomes in terms of trade and investment flows, and estimate impacts of the agreement in light of sustainable development objectives. The ex-post evaluation will feed into the review process.

Since 1975, Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) have been helping businesses innovate for growth. KTPs connect forward thinking businesses with the UK’s world class knowledge bases to deliver a business led innovation projects. The academic partner (known as the knowledge base) will work with a business to: develop the project provide academic input recruit a suitable graduate, known as an associate. They will act as the employer of the associate, who then works at the business for the majority of the project. There are two types of KTP: classic KTPs focus on developing new or better products and services management KTPs focus on developing better businesses by enhancing processes and building management capability. A KTP project can last between 12 and 36 months, depending on the challenge and the needs of the business.

The objective of establishing the list of vendors is to facilitate procurement of studies and analytical work in the area of trade, the potential development of analytical tools for trade policy, carrying out trade policy related surveys and peer reviews.