As part of the U.S.-Central America Free Trade Agreement negotiations, National Action Plans have been designed for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua to identify each country's trade capacity building needs. The action plans serve as a tool for mobilizing and managing trade capacity building assistance – both from public and private sources – to support participation in the negotiations, implementation of the negotiated agreements, and help make the transition and changes necessary to realize the linkage between trade and development.