The International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) is an independent non-profit organisation based in Geneva, Switzerland whose goal is to advance sustainable development through trade-related policymaking.
ICTSD’s vision is a sustainable world, supported by national, regional, and international trade policy and frameworks that support inter-generational equity.
Themes
ICTSD works on the following thematic Areas:
- Agriculture
- Climate and Energy
- Development and LDCs
- Environment
- Global Economic Governance
- Innovation and IP
- Services
- Trade Law
Achievements
ICTSD has played a unique role in enabling, facilitating and supporting policymakers and influencers in identifying and pursuing sustainable development objectives in the context of trade and economic policy. This has been accomplished by:
- Serving as a reliable and open-access source of information
- Facilitating stakeholders’ engagement in substantive discussions within a non-negotiating context
- Enhancing participation, particularly among those without a sufficient voice or capacity to ensure their interests are reflected in trade negotiations
- Addressing complex policy needs with clear and timely analysis
- Increasingly exploring and generating new collaborative approaches involving non-state actors
- Bringing new perspectives to debates on issues from agriculture to public health to sustainable energy
- Advancing, understanding and generating new knowledge on some of the most difficult issues in trade-related negotiations and policymaking processes
- Effectively partnering with and extending the work on research and dialogue agendas of the WTO, UNCTAD, WIPO, WHO and other policy fora
