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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- Over 20 business support organisations (BSOs) across the region will be afforded an opportunity to build their institutional capacities for delivering enhanced trade information services to their respective private sectors.

This will be achieved through delivery of a first regional trade information training programme and data processing and collection mechanisms training on September 24 to October 3 in Trinidad, conducted by Caribbean Export Development Agency with technical support from the International Trade Centre, Geneva, under the EU funded 10th EDF Regional Private Sector Development Program.

The overall objective of the program is to build capacity within the BSOs for providing enhanced trade information services, including business intelligence analysis and for data collection and processing. The initiative is part of a wider program of building the competitiveness of the regional private sector that involves development of a regional market intelligence portal and formation of management structures at the national and regional levels that would allow for more effective engagement of the private by BSOs based on identified trade information needs for SMEs.

According to David Gomez, manager - trade and export development at Caribbean Export, “The programme assumes an integrated approach that aims to provide technical competence for utilizing readily available tools for providing trade information services and build on that through the combined provision of specialized training to build capacity for managing data sources and organization of BSOs at the national level into trade information networks.”

Gomez added that it was “… important for the initiative to be understood within the broader context of the program of private sector development being undertaken by Caribbean Export and that it is only one in a number of programs and initiatives that have been refined and that will be made available over the next few years.”

The regional trade information training program will cover topics that help to improve trade information services through better management performance and knowledge of information sources; improve information research services through better knowledge of information research tools and techniques; and deal with issues relevant to establishing a regional trade information network within CARIFORUM and including mechanisms for information exchange.

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