EPAs- Economic Partnership Agreements
2008
EPA Stocktaking meeting (17 April 2008)
This seminar is organised by APRODEV - ECDPM - ODI and aims at critically assessing the development content of the interim and full EPAs.
Presentation by ODI on Comparative analysis of liberalisation schedules and other commitments in the African interim EPAs
Presentation by ECDPM on Dynamics of EPA negotiations and possible ways forward.
Aprodev Article in Trade Negotiation Insight: EPA Stocktaking: Urgency for a development contest - May 2008 (Volume 7 Number 4)
2007
EPA roundtable discussion (13 September 2007)
Summary report of a roundtable discussion
Crossing development red lines?: Toward a technical analysis of implications of EC proposals for EPA provisions
(French version)
Equity in Trade negotiations : A gender review of the EPAs - in Trade Negotiation Insights March - April 2007 (Volume 6 Number 2)
2006
EPA Gender Review
Process report of a seminar organised by APRODEV, CSGR Warwick University, ONE WORLD ACTION, WIDE and hosted by the DG Trade of the European Commission in the framework of the Civil Society Dialogue Meetings
A pro-development benchmarking approach to monitoring of EPA negotiations : Entry points for gender equity objectives (April 2006)
The paper tries to identify advocacy strategies around
the EPA review 2006 and proposes some explicit gender advocacy actions. It illustrates as to how a benchmarking approach in the poultry sector could be used to articulate and push for gender sensitive and sustainable development objectives.
2005
EPAs and Sustainable Development : Benchmarks for Pro-Development Monitoring of the Negotiations (May 2005)
This report, prepared jointly by Aprodev and the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development in Geneva, tries to go beyond the rhetoric that trade should promote development and to make proposals for the practical integration of development perspectives in the EPA negotiations.
2003
Background
Document on Engendering Economic Partnership Agreements (August 2003)
Content: Links between gender and trade. The
ACP-EU negotiation process. Agricultural
issues. Alternative
trade arrangements. Relations
between different trade negotiation processes. Analytical
approach. Sustainability Impact Assessments (SIA) . Sources
of data
Briefing
paper on Economic Partnership Agreements (May 2003)
Presents briefly key challenges of ongoing negotiations
and proposes ways for involvement of development organisation and civil society
2002
A country case study that differentiate between effects on different social and economic groups in society. Commonly, trade studies focus on products traded on national or international markets (macro), they tend to neglect economic and social developments in markets and production areas important to poor women and men (micro). The study looks at past and perceived benefits and costs of free trade, overview of women in Zimbabwe, problem of the CAP and preferential access to the EU market.
Preface to the French translation
Despite the very different economic structures which
characterise the economy of Zimbabwe and those of francophone African countries,
there are a number of issues identified which are relevant
to the situations women face in francophone African countries.
This study tries to encourage undertaking of further impact assessments in francophone African countries that identify
areas of greatest concern to women and formulate positions that ensure women’s concerns are addressed
and their interests protected
Further reading
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
|
