WORKSHOP PROPOSALS: 

Africa Group:

Trade Liberalization and food security

(Non prioritized list)

• Gender must be put on the WTO
• Poverty eradication
• Fair Trade: Consumers boycotts and need for consumers organizations and networks
• Inter Africa economic exchange circles and regionalism
• Equal rights
• Demand on the WTO to be gender sensitive
• Revise the role of the WTO in Development (IFI’s)
• South Governments need a strengthened position in WTO and FfD negotiations
• South governments must be educated and supported
• South NGOs must be supported

• African voices must be heard
• Africa must be pro-active
• Strengthen “New-Africa” initiative
• Demands for gender budgets
• Demands for gender desks in Trade and Finance Ministries
• Demand that FfD and WTO processes include commitments from Beijing + 5
  

Asia Group: 

Export promotion as a strategy for development

At the International level:

• Minimum standard tax on global currency transactions - TOBIN tax 
• Code of conduct for multinational companies 
• Coordination of gender disaggregated data from all countries 

• Specific recommendations in form of enhancing transparency in trade policies
• Developing and implementing gender training as capacity building in financial institutions 
• Gender analysis of trade policies 
• Participation and enhancing roles of women in multilateral agreements 
• Gender disaggregated data 

At the National Level: 

• Developing a comprehensive regulatory frameworks, including all forms of legislative law making and policy making – that will link social goals directly into economic policies that will produce social justice 
• Provide assistance in monitoring health and environmental effects of traded goods and services 
• National trade policy should promote a local content in export of national products – i.e. encourage and promote those sectors that have a high value added on local content, and bring in issues of gender awareness and make sure that the local content does not build on gender inequality 

At the local level: 

• Concentrating and expanding advocacy work, particularly in raising awareness of gender and gender equality in terms of having a rights based approach in raising gender awareness - not only in civil society and NGOs but among women in general 
• Focus on social, health and education policy in connection with economic policy at the national level 
• Clear recommendations and specific mechanisms in developing alternative strategies that will address the specific needs of the vulnerable and poor. That include: Gender aware micro-credit programs and gender sensitive technology transfers that will enhance the capacity of the most vulnerable groups, including women and the poor

Latin-America Group:

Preferential treatment – 
unequal treatment for unequal partners 


Policy: 

• Fully staffed gender trained, gender sensitized, gender aware unit at WTO – to address different needs of developing countries in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Expand financial and technical assistance for small producers (women and men) to promote Fair Trade
• Quotas and other measures to achieve minimum 40% (or more) gender aware women at all decision-making levels and civil society monitoring
• All trade policy makers gender aware men and women. 
• Gender budgeting and other tools implemented, further research 
• Invest in education and economic literacy for men and women as a priority to eradicate illiteracy
• Gender awareness in campaigns against FTAA
• Increase income earning opportunities for women

Desired Results:

• Informal workers protected by national and international labour rights law 
• Trafficking in women eradicated Eradication of analphabetism of girl-children 
• Fully staffed unit to address needs of small island states at the WTO. 
• Fair Trade mainstreamed 
• Sweatshops/Maquillas are history FTAA never became reality. 
• Ensure 40% (or more) gender aware women participation at leadership level, policy making level in parliaments, governments, jurisdictions 
• EU – EBA (Everything But Arms) implemented – include sugar, rice, coffee 
• Sustainable Development takes place, including women at all decision making levels 
• Gender Budgeting mainstreamed at all levels (local, national, international)
• Implementation of gender sensitive policies

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Compiled and edited by Ingeborg P. Eliasen