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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

   
 
Feedback

Training Workshop on Trade and Environment for EAC and SADC Member States

 
:: Programme of work

:: Report of the Training Workshop

Presentations

Session I: Opening Session

Opening Statement by Mr.Dhliwayo Manurwei, SRO-SA, UNECA

Trade and Environment by Amal Nagah Elbeshbishi, African Trade Policy Centre (ATPC), UNECA

 

Session II: Trade And Environment Issues And Green Economy

Overview of Trade and Environment by Kwadwo Tutu, Food Security and Sustainable Development Division (FSSD), UNECA

Biofuels, Trade and Sustainable Development: Issues, Challenges and Strategy Components by Hamdou Raby Wane, Food Security and Sustainable Development Division (FSSD), UNECA

Framework and Guidelines for Coherent Trade and Environment Policies in Africa by Kwadwo Tutu, Food Security and Sustainable Development Division (FSSD), UNECA

 

Session III: Organic Agriculture And Market Access

Green Economy Initiative Agriculture for Africa 's Shift to a Green Economy by Asad Naqvi, UNEP

Scaling up Organic Agriculture, Enhancing its Foreign Market Access and the Implications on the Environment in the Eastern African Region by Naftali Ndugire, National Env. Mgt. Authority (NEMA), Kenya

Carbon Markets and Africa's Access by Kwadwo Tutu, Food Security and Sustainable Development Division (FSSD), UNECA

 

Session IV: Natural Resources Exploitation And Sustainable Development

Mineral Exploitation and Sustainable Development (Part 2) by Daniel K. Twerefou, University of Ghana

Timber Exploitation, Environmental Insecurity and Conflicts in Africa by Kwadwo Tutu, Food Security and Sustainable Development Division (FSSD), UNECA