Canadian Trade and Investment Facility for Development

The Canadian Trade and Investment Facility (CTIF) provides technical assistance to support more inclusive sustainable and poverty-reducing trade and investment in official development assistance (ODA) eligible Asia-Pacific countries. CTIF technical assistance providers work with national and regional authorities to improve policy-making practices among regional and national institutions and with public private and non-governmental stakeholders to increase access to markets and finance by Asia-Pacific-based SMEs particularly those led by women. CTIF provides technical assistance by external contractors following the approval of technical assistance requests from eligible beneficiaries. These include regional institutions governments civil society organisations and individual firms in ODA-eligible countries in the region.

The expected results for this project include: (1) improved regional organizations’ capabilities to support competitiveness economic integration climate-smart and gender and socially inclusive growth in the Asia-Pacific region; (2) increased the ability of national and local governments to plan develop implement and measure policies legislation and regulations supporting climate-smart and gender/socially inclusive trade and investment; and (3) increased the capacity of civil society organizations and private sector organizations to support their constituencies in business growth women’s economic empowerment market access access to finance and responsible business conduct.