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Globalization needs better negotiating skills in Africa 05 June 2006 Addis Ababa, 5 June - Issues such as globalization mean that African trade and environment policymakers need to boost their knowledge and negotiating capacities, according to the director of ECA’s Sustainable Development Division. Welcoming experts from English-speaking African countries to a four-day training workshop in Addis Ababa, Josue Dione listed other emerging issues affecting policy-making, such as multilateral environments agreements (MEAs) and environmental standards imposed on African countries by the industrialized world. The dynamics
of today’s globalized world, he said, called for “policy-makers
who are capable of formulating coherent trade and environment policies
in a manner that would increase market access for their products
in industrialized markets, while enhancing environmental sustainability
and promoting sustainable development”. Organizers say the workshop will equip decision makers with the tools necessary to build the policy coherence needed to maximize positive economic benefits and minimize pressures arising from trade expansion and liberalization. Participants would also learn to manage the pressures on environmental sustainability arising from trade and promote sustainable development and poverty reduction. They will receive specialized training in Trade and environmental requirements; International negotiations and simulation; Multilateral Environmental Agreements and Trade Policies; and Trade liberalization of environmental goods and services. Another workshop will be organized by ECA and its collaborators later this month in Dakar for French-speaking African countries. Click here for Josue Dione’s full statement. |
