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Project Document NTF III Myanmar: INCLUSIVE tourism focusing on Kayah State (August 2014) A Netherlands Trust Fund III Project Programme Title: The Netherlands Trust Fund III (NTF III) Programme Period: September 2014 to June 2017 Project Title: NTF III Myanmar: Inclusive Tourism Focussing on Kayah State Site of the Project: Myanmar Partner Organizations: Centre for the Promotion of Imports from Developing Countries (CBI) Executive Agency: International Trade Centre (ITC) The International Trade Centre (ITC) and the Dutch Centre for the Promotion of Imports from Developing Countries (CBI) have been cooperating for decades. This cooperation has most recently been embodied in a series of programmes called Netherlands Trust Fund I (NTF I), which ended in 2009, and Netherlands Trust Fund II (NTF II), which started in 2009 and ended June 2013. Building on the NTFII programme and its lessons learned, the purpose of the Netherlands Trust Fund phase III programme is to increase the income of producers and exporters in selected sectors in selected priority developing countries, including in Myanamar and its tourism industry. The expected impact will be reflected in jobs created and maintained in selected sectors. Job creation reduces poverty and is strongly correlated with reductions in other measures fighting poverty such as access to basic human needs, health and education. The present project aims to create and maintain jobs in the Myanmar tourism sector. This will be achieved by increasing the income of enterprises and local communities, and by enhancing the competitiveness of Myanmar’s tourism industry and related supply chains, especially at the Kayah state level, ultimately contributing to sustainable economic development. To achieve this, the project will work along three axes in line with the NTF III programme approach, namely: a) enhancing the export capacity of tour operators as well as of SMEs (both, enterprises that supply goods and services to the K