1: Providing Fully Integrated Trade Capacity Building for RECs
2: Providing Comprehensive Capacity Building for Trade Constituencies
3: Mainstreaming Cross-Cutting Items
:: Set up Trade Policy Units in RECs
:: Mainstream HIV/ AIDS, Gender and Environment into ATPC Activities
Reference Documents
On average, 95% of the members of a regional economic community in Africa belong to another community. Source: Aria II, ECA.
The Economic and Welfare Impacts of the EU-Africa Economic Partnership Agreements
Trade Facilitation -Single Window Workshop, 15-16 October 2009, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
EPAs Workshop Documents
Documents
Concept Note [French]
Programme of work [French]
North-South FTAs After all? A Comprehensive and Critical Analysis of the Interim Economic Partnership Agreements and recommendations on how they could be made to really address Africa’s developmental objectives
Towards the African Template for EPAs
Explanation and Recommendations, Towards the African Template for Economic Partnership Agreements
Presentations
Objectives and expectations of the African Workshop on EPAs by Stephen Karingi, Trade and International Negotiations Section, UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)
Recalling Some Issues With Interim EPAs by Stephen Karingi, Trade and International Negotiations Section, UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)
Regional Integration in Africa, the Rationalization of RECs and Economic Partnership Agreements by Joseph Atta-Mensah, NEPAD and Regional Integration Division, UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)
Trade Related Issues: Trade and Environment by Veniana Qalo, Commonwealth Secretariat
Trade Related Issues: Trade and Labor by Veniana Qalo, Commonwealth Secretariat
Some Issues for Consideration for Africa – Investment & Services by Taisuke ITO DITC/UNCTAD
Towards an African Common Market for Agricultural Products Implications of EPAs by Dr. Victor Mosoti& Dr. Suffyan Koroma, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
EPA Provisions on Institutional Setting and Monitoring by San Bilal, European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)
Questions Juridiques Choisies sur les APE Intérimaires par Par Dr El Hadji A. DIOUF ICTSD
African Workshop on Economic Partnership Agreements Mode 4: Offensive Interests by Offah Obale, South Centre
Comparing EPA and WTO Safeguards: Some Recommendations by Aileen Kwa Coordinator, South Centre
Trade related business advocacy in the context of the EPA by Jean-Sébastien Roure, International Trade Centre (ITC)
Towards The African Template For EPAs by Stephen Karingi, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Trade and International Negotiations Section, (UNECA)
Way Forward in Consolidating the Draft EPA Template by Stephen Karingi, Trade and International Negotiations Section, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)
