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International Conference on Linkages Between Trade, Development and Poverty Reduction (TDP)
March 15-16, 2007, Nairobi, Kenya

CUTS Centre for International Trade, Economics & Environment (CUTS CITEE), Jaipur organised the International Conference under the TDP project at Nairobi, Kenya.

Representatives of project partners from fifteen countries across South and South-East Asia, Eastern and Southern Africa, Europe viz.- Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Kenya, Nepal, Netherlands, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, UK, Vietnam, Zambia attended the conference apart from representatives from inter-governmental agencies, governments, civil society, and research organisations.

The theme of the conference was “Civil Society Organisations and Aid for Trade- Roles and Realities.” The objective of the conference was to provide a discussion forum to deliberate on various aspects of the involvement of civil society organisations in implementing aid for trade programmes.

• Backgrounder
• Agenda
• List of Participants
• Report

• Feedback Report

• Rapporteur Report:

A4T Progress and Challenges
– M.A. Razzaque, Economic Adviser, Commonwealth Secretariat, London

Rapporteur’s note: Day 1
– Selim Raihan, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Rapporteur’s note: Day 2
– Gichinga Ndirangu, Trade Advisor, Oxfam International, South Africa Office, Pretoria

• Presentations:

• A donor’s perspective in Aid for Trade-Roles, Realities & Shared Responsibilities
  – Elena Immambocus, Trade Policy Strategist, International Trade Department, DFID, UK

• What is Aid for Trade in WTO Context?
  – Christine Manca, Programme Officer, CUTS International, India

• Aid for Trade: Interrogating CSO silences in Southern Africa
  – Brendan Vickers, Senior Researcher, Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa

• Capacity constraints of Civil Society Organisations in dealing with and addressing Aid for Trade
  – Nathalie Vialle, Programme Officer, International Centre for Trade & Sustainable Development, Geneva

• Cambodian CSOs Engagement in Trade Issues
  – Ros Khemara, Researcher, Economic Institute of Cambodia, Cambodia

• Reinventing CSOs-policymakers-private sector relations in economic integration in Vietnam
  – Ngo Huong, Vice Director, Centre for Development and Integration, Vietnam

• Effective Alliances between CSOs, Policymakers and Private Sector
  – Abid Qaiyum Suleri, Assistant Executive Director, Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan

• Orienting Aid for Trade toward poverty reduction
  – Hugo Cameron, International Trade Negotiations Expert, International lawyers and Economists Against Poverty

• Linking Aid for Trade with Trade, Development and Poverty Reduction
  – Fred A Miencha, Assistant Analyst, Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis

• A comment on South to South Trade Development
  – Xingmin Yin, Professor, Fudan University, China

• AfT Progress and Challenges
  – Margaret K. Chemengich, Consultant for Kenya Trade and Poverty Programme, Kenya

Presentation Papers:

• Aid for Trade: Interrogating CSO silences in Southern Africa
  – Brendan Vickers, Senior Researcher, Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa

• Orienting Aid for Trade toward poverty reduction
  – Hugo Cameron, International Trade Negotiations Expert, International lawyers and Economists Against Poverty

• Capacity constraints of Civil Society Organisations in dealing with and addressing Aid for Trade
  – Nathalie Vialle, Programme Officer, International Centre for Trade & Sustainable Development, Geneva

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