The STDF’s 2025–2030 Strategy charts a path to enhance SPS capacity and facilitate safe trade in support of the WTO SPS Agreement. It advances collective action to build global public goods for food safety, animal and plant health in developing countries, driving catalytic SPS improvements and facilitating safe trade that contributes to sustainable economic growth, poverty reduction, food security and resilience to climate change.
The Strategy builds on STDF’s track record, plus learning identified from the 2024 external programme evaluation. Developed in collaboration with STDF’s global partnership, it ensures the Facility remains responsive to current and emerging challenges shaping trade and SPS systems worldwide. These include new and more complex SPS risks and the evolving regulatory environment, regional integration, informal trade, digitalization, climate change, agrifood system transformation and One Health.
The Strategy strengthens the STDF’s four key pillars: convene, innovate, learn and catalyse, placing a strong emphasis on innovation and scaling. It aims to identify SPS innovations and connect developing economies with new funding and investment opportunities to improve their SPS capacities. This involves deepening public-public and public-private cooperation, strengthening linkages with regional SPS institutions and the private sector, as well as capitalizing on the role of STDF developing country experts.
Find out more about the STDF’s results and impact in our Annual Reports and 20th anniversary publication.