Southern Agenda Phase II: Consultation régional sur le commerce et l’environnement en Afrique de l’ouest / Regional Consultation on Trade and Environment in West Africa Hotel Ngor Diarama, Dakar, Senegal: 22-23 July 2003 organised by ICTSD, IISD and ENDA

Description | Participants | Programme | Main Southern Agenda page

• Document de Référence, Rédigé par El Hadji Abdourahmane Diouf et Cheikh Tidiane Dieye, July 2003.
• Think Piece (forthcoming)
• Rapport de la consultation FR / Meeting Report EN
  
  

• Conclusions des trois sessions:

  • Groupe 1: Bio-sécurité et gestion de risque (Food security, biosafety and risk assessment)
  • Groupe 2: La gestion des ressources naturels (Natural resource management)
  • Groupe 3: L’harmonisation des politiques sur le commerce et l’environnement (Trade and Environment policy coherence)
  
  

Description

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 Dakar consultation is the first -- 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.

Photos

M. Mbodj, M. Samb, M. Dieye

 

Youba Sokona, Amb. Yolande Biké, ICTSD Executive Director Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz

 

Mme. Da Costa, Bakary Fofana, Adil Najam

{BaseDePage}