• Gender and Trade: How to engender India’s National
  Foreign Trade Policy?
  Lucknow, November 30, 2007

• National Consultation
  Services Trade and Domestic Regulation in India
  New Delhi, Thursday, November 29, 2007

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Gender and Trade: How to engender India’s National
Foreign Trade Policy?
Lucknow, November 30, 2007

A workshop on "Gender and Trade: How to Engender the National Foreign Trade Policy of India" was held in Lucknow on November 30, 2007, in collaboration with Network for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (NEED). While this Policy is an improvement over the earlier Export-Import Policy of India, there is a need to look at from a gender perspective in order to better understand the human development aspects of international trade. This series of workshops attempted to do that by:

• Providing a space to develop ideas on how to mainstream gender concerns into the National Foreign Trade Policy of India so that there are more benefits from trade for the marginalised sections of our society;

• Gaining a better understanding of the ways in which liberalised trade has influenced gender inequalities and relations in specific sectors, and women's experiences in particular;

• Providing feedback on the launching of a forthcoming CUTS initiative on Gender and Trade, which will further delve into issues raised at the series of workshops.

Presenters included Anil Singh, Chief Executive Officer, NEED; R S Ratna, Director, Regional & Multilateral Trade Relations, Department of Commerce; R M Nair, General Manager, Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI); Dr Pam Rajput, Executive Director, Women's Resource and Advocacy Centre; and Rebecca Band, CUTS CITEE. Paticipants included national and state government officials, academics, and members of various non-governmental organisations (NGOs). This was the last in a series of three workshops to be held on this subject.
 

National Consultation
Services Trade and Domestic Regulation in India
New Delhi, Thursday, November 29, 2007

The National Consultation on Services Trade and Domestic Regulation in India, to be held on Thursday, November 29, 2007 at WILLOW Hall, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, is to invite comments and inputs on the country background paper and two sectoral case studies prepared by CUTS CITEE. The following is the list of issues / subjects which will be discussed at this consultation. It includes:

• Country background paper on ‘Evolution of Services in India’

• Country paper on ‘Domestic Preparedness on Services in India’

• Two sectoral case studies:

  • Wholesale Trade

  • Education

This consultation is organised by engaging the policy-makers (including regulators), civil society representatives, inter-governmental and multilateral agencies, academics and media. Country background paper and two sectoral case studies will be presented at this meeting. After receiving comments from various stakeholders, a synthesis paper will be prepared, outlining the policy implications and impact of services liberalisation and domestic regulation on these countries’ economies. This synthesis paper will be finalised after conducting the dissemination meeting so that deliberations at these meetings are taken on board. It will act as a policy advocacy document for future. 

The objectives of this consultation is:

• To deliberate and invite comments from various stakeholders on country background paper and two sectoral case studies which will be presented at this consultation.
• To take on board the deliberations while preparing the synthesis paper which will act as a policy advocacy document for future.
• To facilitate interaction between policy-makers (including regulators), civil society representatives, inter-governmental and multilateral agencies, academics and media.