Brussels Development Briefings

On 5 December, CTA and other partners organised the third ‘Brussels Development Briefing’ - part of a series of discussion meetings on ACP-EU development issues. This briefing focused on Aid for Trade.

Objectives and Programme of the Briefing
- Isolina Boto, CTA [presentation]

Welcome remarks
- Ferdinand Nyabenda, ACP Secretariat [speech]
- Lluis Riera, DG Development, European Commission

Panel 1: Setting the scene: Where are we in the Aid for Trade agenda?
This session reviewed Aid for Trade (AfT) multilateral and EU initiatives and assessed the challenges to make AfT an effective tool for helping ACP countries to better integrate in the multilateral trading system.

Introductory remarks by Glenys Kinnock, European Parliament, co-President of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly

- Michael Roberts, WTO [executive summary]
- Liselotte Isaksson, DG Development, [presentation]
- H.E.M. Patrick I. Gomes, Ambassador of Guyana [executive summary]
- Karin Ulmer, Concord [executive summary; background note]

Discussant: Cornelius Mwalwanda, UNECA [presentation]

Panel 2: Trade-related assistance: institutional architecture and financial mobilisation for Aid for Trade
This session reviewed the financial resources mobilized for the AfT agenda, along with their scope and impacts; it also examined the ACP stakeholders (regional organizations, farmers organizations, private sector) involvement in the design, monitoring and evaluation of AfT initiatives.

- Sheila Page, ODI [executive summary]
- Uri Dadush, World Bank [executive summary]
- James Musonda, COMESA [executive summary; presentation]
- Philip Kiriro, EAFF

Discussant: Hon. Nita K.R. Deerpalsing, Member of Parliament and JPA, Mauritius

Conclusions
Hansjörg Neun, CTA
Cornelius Mwalwanda, UNECA
Kathleen Van Hove, ECDPM

More:

Video material

Video interviews

Background note

Reader (pdf)

Key documents and organisations

Profiles of panelists and discussants

List of participants

Report of the meeting (pdf)

For more information please contact Romano Purro (rp@euforic.org)