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Experts discuss the practical implications of the implementation of the Nagoya Protocol and its impact over certain aspects of BioTrade, at a peer review meeting in Geneva on 24 November 2015.

​At the end of September 2015, 42 port operators from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean gathered for a week in Indonesia to jointly defined scorecard of indicators to help ports achieve greater competitiveness.

Twenty-four participants, including six women, took part in a TrainForTrade/UNCTAD Port Training Programme in Côte d'Ivoire and were awarded the UNCTAD Certificate in Modern Port Management in Abidjan on 3 September 2015.

Market potential for BioTrade goods is estimated at 141 billion USD, but complex standards and other non-tariff barriers prevent many small producers from taking advantage of market opportunities.

​As reconstruction of the port at Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, presses on after a devastating earthquake in 2010, UNCTAD's TrainForTrade programme is offering training to Haitian instructors so that they can in turn train up port officials.

UNCTAD is to organize a training and capacity building Workshop in Moroni, Comoros, from 28 to 30 July 2015. The workshop is part of UNCTAD's project titled: Building the capacities of selected Least Developed Countries to upgrade and diversify their fish exports.

Le programme TrainForTrade de la CNUCED a organisé, en collaboration avec le Ministère de la Poste et des TIC, un séminaire sur la Pratique du Commerce Électronique à Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, du 27 au 29 avril 2015.

Sixty-six participants from forty countries successfully completed the first edition of UNCTAD's online course on trade and gender, held from 19 January to 8 March 2015. All participants agreed the course had met or exceeded their expectations and enhanced their knowledge of the trade-gender links.

The Secretary General of UNCTAD, Dr. Mukhisa Kituyi, awarded 18 participants of the TrainForTrade/UNCTAD Port Training Programme with the UNCTAD Certificate in Modern Port Management in Djibouti on 17 February 2015.   The participants from Djibouti's port community had previously successfully defended their final dissertations focusing on challenges within their area of work. The juries on the dissertation panels comprised representatives from partner ports of the French-speaking network of the Programme.

Perdana University of Malaysia, in collaboration with UNCTAD, has launched the Master of International Trade - a pioneering programme that will shape the study of International Trade in the region.