• Gender and Trade: How to Engender the National Foreign Trade
  Policy of India
  Bangalore, October 29, 2007

• Roundtable on Trade and Poverty:
  Making the Integrated Framework a Tool for Poverty Reduction?!
  Geneva, October 18, 2007

• Gender and Trade: How to Engender the National Foreign Trade
  Policy of India
  Kolkata, October 03, 2007

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Gender and Trade: How to Engender the National Foreign Trade
Policy of India
Bangalore, October 29, 2007

A workshop on "Gender and Trade: How to Engender the National Foreign Trade Policy of India" was held on October 29, 2007 in Bangalore. 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; and

• 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.

Shahid Ahmed, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) India, Sarojini Thakur, Acting Head of Gender Section, Commonwealth Secretariat, and R.S. Ratna, Director, Regional & Multilateral Trade Relations, Department of Commerce were among the distinguished speakers. Paticipants included national and state government officials, academics, and members of various non-governmental organisations (NGOs). This was the second in a series of three workshops to be held on this subject.

Roundtable on Trade and Poverty:
Making the Integrated Framework a Tool for Poverty Reduction?!
Geneva, October 18, 2007

CUTS Centre for International Trade, Economics & Environment (CUTS CITEE) will organise the Roundtable on Trade and Poverty: 'Making the Integrated Framework a Tool for Poverty Reduction?' in Geneva, on October 18, 2007.

This workshop aims to provide a space in which representatives from the Integrated Framework countries (focal points, ministry representatives, LDC missions and CSOs) can engage with the main IF agencies, the donor community and NGOs to discuss the ongoing challenges facing the IF and address critical questions about ownership and how the IF responds to the challenge of tackling poverty.

Gender and Trade: How to Engender the National Foreign Trade
Policy of India
Kolkata, October 03, 2007

A workshop on "Gender and Trade: How to Engender the National Foreign Trade Policy of India" was held on October 03, 2007 in Kolkata. 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.

S Nandwani, Joint Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), Kolkata, Swapna Mukhopadhyay, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, and Nirmala Bannerjee, Gender Consultant were among the distinguished speakers. Paticipants included national and state government officials, academics, social entrepreneurs, and members of various non-governmental organisations (NGOs). This was the first in a series of three workshops to be held on this subject.