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Regional Workshop on Trade Capacity Building in Mombasa, Kenya (26-27/08/2002)
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Organisers
This workshop was organised by the Development Co-operation Directorate and the OECD Development Centre in collaboration with UNECA and UNDP.
Participants
Participants included representatives from the public and private sectors and civil society from the East Africa region as well as from a wide range of international organisations including ITC and UNCTAD.
Objectives
This was an opportunity for local and regional stakeholders together with donor representatives to share experiences and good practices in trade capacity building.
The main objectives of the workshop were to:
- Discuss current approaches to trade capacity building in African countries;
- Pinpoint and explore mechanisms through which a participatory trade policy process can be fostered and mainstreamed into the national development and poverty reduction strategies;
- Explore the role of donors in facilitating and supporting the trade policy process;
- Consider tools and methods for strengthening the trade policy process and trade capacity.
Workshop documents
Speakers presentations and papers
- The Outcome of the Doha WTO Ministerial Conference: Implications for Africa. The Challenges of Trade Capacity Building in Africa, UN Economic Commission for Africa
- Strengthening Trade Capacity - Fostering an Inclusive Trade Policy Process, Ebba Dohlman, OECD Development Co-operation Directorate
- Trading Competitively , Ki Fukasaku, OECD Development Centre
- Trade Capacity Building: the African Post-Doha Challenges, Dominique Njinkeu, African Economic Research Consortium
- Towards a Formal Consultative Mechanism for Trade Policy in Uganda (paper) and Consultative Mechanism for Trade Policy (presentation), Nimrod Waniala, Private Sector Foundation, Uganda
- Investment Policy Reviews , Khalil Hamdani, UNCTAD
- Integrated Approaches to Trade Capacity Building: Lessons from the JITAP , Abraham Pallangyo, JITAP co-ordinator Tanzania
- Rethinking the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) as an instrument for Mainstreaming Trade Capacity Development , David F. Luke, Debt and Globalisation Advisor, UNDP Southern Africa Sub-Regional Resource Facility (Draft)
- Integrated Framework: Mainstreaming Trade into Malawi's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper , Brian G. Mtonya, IF Co-ordinator, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Malawi
- The need for a Strategy - Changing the Mindset (paper) and Competitiveness through Strategy and Partnership - Changing the Mindset (presentation), Brian Barclay, ITC
- A Value Chain Approach to National Export Strategy Development (paper) and Competitiveness Development Strategy - a Value Chain Approach (presentation), Ian Sayers, ITC
- Fostering Competitiveness - Strategy and Partnership , Teshome Kebede, Genuine Leather Craft Pvt Ltd Co, Ethiopia
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