Trade4SDGs enables, facilitates and supports interaction among policymakers and influencers to craft and implement policy frameworks on trade and investment that deliver for the Sustainable Development. Goals. To ensure that the SDGs are factored into all aspects of the international trade system, trade4SDGs aims to facilitate the emergence of a critical mass of well-informed stakeholders who can identify and effectively advance their own sustainable development priorities in trade policy and related policy processes.

Trade4SDGs works to build well-informed communities, support dialogues around policy, and empower policymakers and influencers to act effectively on issues in the trade policy arena that impact national and global sustainable development. A particular emphasis is placed on communities that are often excluded from the policymaking processes.

 

Trade4SDGs advances its mission through three types of activities:

 

Information and communication

 

Trade4SDGs provides a consistent flow of reliable, non-partisan reporting and analysis on policy developments in the trade and the SDGs.

 

Dialogues and workshops

 

Trade4SDGs creates opportunities for dialogue that bring new voices and perspectives into policy debates. This serves to mobilise a wide range of stakeholders and facilitates constructive interaction among policymakers and influencers in non-negotiating settings.

 

Research and consulting services

 

Interaction among those in the policymaking space focuses on problem solving. Trade4SDGs thus generates research and offers consulting services that take a solutions-focused approach to trade, investment, and the SDGs.