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BizClim and Tradecom to fund IPRTA activities in Uganda |
Following Uganda's request to the WTO TRIPS Council for funding of its national Trade & Intellectual Property technical assistance project (UTIP), Tradecom and the ACP Business Climate Facility (BizClim) have agreed to fund some activities in cluster 1 of the project relating to IP policy and legislative development.
BizClim is an EU funded initiative under the Cotonou Agreement. The Facility is essentially about ‘improving legislation, institutional set up and financial measures (the rules of the game) relating to the enabling environment of the private sector in ACP countries or regions and to the reform of SOEs - and to do so by focusing on possible support to ACP governments or regional institutions.
Even though this is a promising start, Uganda is still far from reaching the full level of required funding for the UTIP project which will assist the country in implementing the TRIPS agreement. Uganda is continuing discussions with a number of other potential donors, including the Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF) .
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