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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:	Economic and Social: Trade and Development Financing for Development: International Trade as an engine for development Sustainable Development: Capacity-building International law
Geographic scope:	International
Country of activity:	Cambodia Nepal Benin Lesotho Viet Nam Serbia Tajikistan Switzerland Tunisia Myanmar Rwanda Comoros Chad Mozambique Kyrgyzstan Lebanon Thailand Peru Vanuatu Brunei Darussalam Mali Singapore Burkina Faso Haiti Montenegro Indonesia Burundi Malaysia Philippines Lao People's Democratic Republic Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Millennium Development Goals:	Develop global partnership for development
Mission statement:	IDEAS Centre is an independent, non-profit organisation dedicated to helping low-income countries to integrate into the world trading system in a way that supports their national poverty reduction and economic development efforts. The Centre offers practical, results-oriented advisory services and executes projects aimed at strengthening the capacities of developing/transition country governments to shape both their domestic economic policies as well as the international policies that affect them. The overall goal of the Centre’s projects is to empower low-income countries by: - Using their WTO membership (or accession process) in a way that promotes their country’s sustainable human development, deepening their understanding of development challenges and linkages with trade and WTO rules, and improving policy coherence; - Participating more effectively in international trade forums and negotiations and by harnessing the free market forces and rules of a liberal world trade system to achieve poverty alleviation and economic growth. Through its projects supporting developing country participation in the WTO and facilitating the integration of development-related concerns into industrial country positions, the Centre wants to contribute to international discussions on WTO institutional reforms and to encourage global cooperation for “win-win” solutions on the trade and development interface. The acronym IDEAS stands for International trade, Development, Economic governance and Advisory Services.
Year established:	2002
Year of registration:	2002
Organizational structure:	The organisation is composed of: a General Assembly, an Executive Committee and Statutory Auditors
Affiliation with NGO networks:	The Geneva Trade and Development Forum
Funding structure other:	Projects are funded by governmental entities

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