Trade Facilitation and Custom Support Programme (Tasdeer)
Palestine | 2020 - 2023
Client: FCDO, CoWater International
Service: MSD
Tasdeer, a 4.5-year, £15-million development program funded by the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO), aimed to facilitate reaching an inclusive and sustainable export-led growth from the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs). The program, implemented by Cowater International, worked to support trade-related institutions and private sector businesses to better move goods and services across borders and to increase the revenues from trade-related taxes the Palestinian Authority received.
MSA supported intervention design, including the creation of intervention results frameworks and assisted the KML unit and implementation team in developing results chains and monitoring plans for interventions related to the enabling environment, export compliance, and public-private sector linkages. MSA also designed the project's MEL system and provided ongoing advisory support and conducted baseline and midline studies, including a market systems health check focusing on the impacts of COVID-19.
