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  Pillars of ATPC
 

1: Providing Fully Integrated Trade Capacity Building for RECs

 

2: Providing Comprehensive Capacity Building for Trade Constituencies

 

3: Mainstreaming Cross-Cutting Items

 
  ATPC Services
 

:: Set up Trade Policy Units in RECs

  :: Undertake Research
  :: Promote Training on Trade Issues
  :: Undertake Information Dissemination
  :: Provide Advisory Services and Technical Cooperation
  :: Facilitate Consensus Building
  :: Create Partnerships for Trade
 

:: Mainstream HIV/ AIDS, Gender and Environment into ATPC Activities

 

Reference Documents

Partners
Important Addresses
 
  Did you know that?
 

On average, 95% of the members of a regional economic community in Africa belong to another community.
Source: Aria II, ECA.
 
 
  Interim Economic Partnership Agreements Point to the Classic Regional Trade Agreements after all: Should African countries really be worried?

 

The Economic and Welfare Impacts of the EU-Africa Economic Partnership Agreements


 Upcoming Events
  ATPC Advisory Board Meeting, 24-25 September 2009, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
 

Trade Facilitation -Single Window Workshop, 15-16 October 2009, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
   
 
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Gender and Trade Training Workshop
 
Presentations

Day one
SESSION ONE: OPENING
Keynote Presentation on a Framework for assessing women and trade. “Interlocking Features of Gender Trade and Poverty” (Liepollo Pheko, Trade Collective)
SESSION TWO

Keynote Presentation on Impacts of WTO negotiations: What does this mean to African women? (Liepollo Pheko, Trade Collective)

Recommendations related to mitigating and improving these impacts (Amal Elbeshbishi, ATPC)
 

SESSION THREE

The special needs of the female cross-border traders (Masheti Masinjila, CCGD)

Value chains of production: can these work better for women? (Emma Hobson, UNECA)
 
 
Day two

SESSION FOUR: How gender responsive are current Regional Trade Agreements (RTA’s) and Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA’s) in Africa.

EPA’s- What are the impacts on African Women? (Liepollo Pheko, Trade Collective)

Best Practice in Integrating gender:  the case  of COMESA (Ahamada Andjouza, COMESA)
SADC Post FTA Trade Development Programme  Incorporating Gender Mainstreaming (Vonesai Hove, SADC)
Status of Regional Integration  in EAC and ECOWAS ( Getachew Tessema, NEPAD and Regional  Integration Division, UNECA)
Gender and Trade in the East African Community ( Perpetue Miganda, ECA)
Where do we go from here? Enhanced Gender “entry points” in EAC and SADC (Magdeline Madibela, SADC )

Women Participation In Cross Border Trade In East Africa:The Role of The E A C Customs Union Protocol (Masheti Masinjila, CCGD)
SESSION FIVE: Tools and Models of Application
TRCB, TIR, Gender Indicators & other global models of measurement  (Nancy Spence – GEARI)
The Impacts of Trade on Gender: What Have We Learned and What Tools Are Used? (Mohamed Chemingui, UNECA)
Why policy makers need CGE models? (Amal Elbeshbishi, ATPC)

The African Gender and  Development Index (AGDI) A framework to measure gender equality in Africa (Souleymane Abdallah, ACGSD)
Time Use Studies (Omar Ismael Abdourahman, ACGSD)
 
 
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