Integration into regional and global services value chains is crucial for development outcomes as value chains dominate international trade. A major challenge is therein to understand how such value chains operate, to measure them and design policies to support a higher degree of integration and penetration. This project makes a contribution towards this gap through strengthening capacities of national and regional services trade policymakers to measure value chains and design services policy aimed at increasing integration and penetration into regional and global value chains. The focus is on three services sectors that are critical for enabling trade and fostering inclusiveness, namely, infrastructure services, financial services and tourism services. The strategy of the project is designed to involve all relevant stakeholders at the national and regional level to build capacities to measure services value chains, share and discuss experiences and outcomes of analysis, and then design and elaborate on evidence-based services policies.The project will benefit from the acquired knowledge of two UN entities, namely UNCTAD and ECA, who both have worked extensively on services and value chains with African member States.