Southern Agenda Phase II: Regional Consultation on Trade and Environment in Southern and Eastern Africa
9th – 10th June 2004 • Co-organised with IISD; ACTS; TRALAC
The first phase of the Southern Agenda project sought to gather and present Southern perspectives on the trade and environment link, building on consultations with developing country trade policy representatives in Geneva (click here for further details).
Phase II, which builds upon the results of Phase I, aims to respond to the opportunity offered by the Doha mandate, to strengthen the capacity of trade negotiators, key national policymakers and regional actors in developing countries to determine priorities for promoting and negotiating proactive positions which reflect their own ‘Southern Agenda’ on environment and trade in the multilateral trading system
The project is based on six regional meetings — of which the Stellenbosch consultation is the fourth — that aim to bring forward regional priorities in trade and environment. The consultations, which are designed for approximately 20 expert participants, will feed into a Geneva-based process involving WTO negotiators, in order to ensure equitable and sustainable trade policies and agreements that truly reflect regional priorities for environment.
Through providing a space for focused discussions, this consultation aimed to establish:
(a) The most important concerns and priorities for the South in general, and the region in particular, in terms of the current trade and environment agenda in the WTO;
(b) Innovative options that would meet the South’s, and the region’s, trade and environment concerns in the immediate and ongoing trade and environment negotiations; and
(c) The form and contents of a longer-term trade and environment agenda that the South can own and advance as its own.
Programme
9 June
19:30 Welcome Dinner
10 June
Trade and Environment in the WTO agenda: context, challenges and prospects from Marrakech to
Mark Halle
Results of the first phase of the Southern Agenda
Adil Najam
#1. What are the most important concerns and most pressing priorities for the South in general, and the region in particular, in terms of the current trade and environment agenda in the WTO and especially with regard to the Doha Mandate (i.e., the entire
#2. What innovative options can be envisaged that would meet the South’s, and the region’s, trade and environment concerns in the immediate and ongoing trade and environment negotiations (i.e., in the current round)?
#3. Thinking about the longer term trade and environment debate (i.e., future rounds), what would be the form and contents of a trade and environment agenda that the South can own and advance as its own?
15:15 - 17:00 Discussion in working groups
19:30 Dinner
11 June
Riundja ALI KAAKUNGA
Deputy Director - International Trade
Ministry for Trade and Industry
Namibia
William BABIGUMIRA
Senior Trade Promotion Officer
Uganda Export Promotion Board
Uganda
John D. CHIDZOMBA
Private Consultant
Zimbabwe
Rob DAVIES
Member of Parliament
South Africa
Saliem FAKIR
IUCN - World Conservation Union
Country Office South Africa
Jan GLAZEWSKI
Environmental Lawyer
University of Cape Town
South Africa
Dirk HANSOHM
Director
Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit
Namibia
Jurgen HOFFMANN
Senior Trade Advisor
Agriculture Trade Forum of Namibia
Namibia
Nicholas Dlamini KITIKITI
Economica International Consultants
Zimbabwe
Ernest Alexander MUWAMBA
ACapacity Building Manager
Zambia Chamber of Small & Medium Business
Zambia
Deborah NYARUNDA
Uganda Fish Processing & Export Association
Uganda
Michelle PRESSEND
Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism
South Africa
Lucas Ndewonaona SARONGA
Minister Plenipotentiary
Permanent Mission of Tanzania to the WTO
Sudhir SOOKLAL
Department of Trade & Industry
South Africa
Anthea STEVENS
IUCN - World Conservation Union
Country Office South Africa
Lala STEYN
IUCN - World Conservation Union
Country Office South Africa
RIAZ TAYOB
Seatini
South Africa
Jessica WILSON
Environmental Monitoring Group
South Africa
Organisers
Ricardo MELENDEZ ORTIZ
Executive Director
ICTSD
Switzerland
Mark HALLE
Director for Trade and Investment
IISD
Switzerland
Adil NAJAM
Associate Professor
Tufts University
United States
Heike BAUMULLER
Program Manager
Natural Resources
ICTSD
Switzerland
Hugo CAMERON
Senior Associate
ICTSD
Switzerland
Evans KITUYI
ACTS
Kenya
George Sikoyo
ACTS
Kenya
Tessa MANUELLO
TRALAC
South Africa
Lee PADAYACHEE
TRALAC
South Africa