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EVENT –
OCTOBER 2007
Upcoming
Events...
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:
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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;
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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