Development partners are providing assistance to implement the TFA. But more needs to be done to ensure the full implementation of the TFA by all WTO Members. The 2025 report by TFAF on the mobilisation of assistance for the TFA confirms that more than half of category C needs are still unmatched. By 2030 most developing and LDC Members are required to have made sufficient capacity to implement the TFA. 

On Wednesday 3 December, TFAF hosted a round table with development partners on improving coordination to address geographical and thematic gaps in assistance. Further, reduction in development aid call for more efforts to deliver more effectively through collaboration. 

The TFAF was set up to assist developing and LDC Members accessing assistance and capacity building for the TFA from development partners. It monitors progress in the mobilisation of TACB for the TFA based on a member survey.  

The findings from the 54 Members included in the survey, confirm progress in the mobilisation of TACB for the TFA. Currently more than 20% of category C measures are covered by TACB arrangements with DPs. Nevertheless, more TACB is needed to match the scale and complexity of Members' TFA capacity building needs. Developing and LDC Members are still looking for TACB for more than half of their category C needs. Most of these needs have definitive implementation dates by 2030. 

The 2025 data confirm that TACB mobilisation progress has been uneven across developing and LDC Members. Whilst some Members have several active DPs, other Members have few or none. Furthermore, Members face challenges to mobilise TACB interventions that respond to their specific capacity development needs. 

Addressing these challenges to TACB mobilisation for the TFA requires that i) a sufficient volume of development aid is allocated through the most suitable instruments, that ii) holes in the geographic distribution are plugged, iii) that the impact and sustainability of existing TACB support is deepened, iv) support is expanded to areas that are not yet well covered, v) domestic resources and political support for TF changes are mobilised, vi) information on the above is available regularly and in an up-to-date manner to allow for monitoring and calibration as required.