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| About
the Centre The Eastern and
Southern African Non-state Actors Forum (ESANAF) |
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CUTS-Africa Resource Centre (CUTS-ARC), Lusaka, Zambia is the first set up of CUTS outside India. The Centre was inaugurated on 20th February 2001 by Honourable Mr. William Harrington, Acting Minister, Commerce, Trade and Industry, Zambia. Noted persons such as Mr. Ashok K Attri, Indian High Commissioner, Dr. Nicholas Kwendakwema, Chairman, Zambia Competition Commission and Mr. George Lipimile, Executive Director, Zambia Competition Commission attended the ceremony. The objective of the Centre is to promote South-South civil society cooperation on trade and development and create long-term capacity of civil society representatives to address the issues of equity and accountability. The Centre has been entrusted with the responsibility to consolidate and expand activities of the organisation on south-south civil society co-operation in the areas of trade, economics and environment. CUTS-ARC, in addition to other activities would, work as a resource, co-ordination and networking Centre for the ‘Comparative Study of Competition Regimes of Seven Select Developing Countries of the Commonwealth,’ project, popularly know as the 7-Up project. CUTS-ARC is a dream come true for CUTS, as it is a big step towards development of closer and intense relationship between two developing regions, viz. Africa and South Asia. CUTS has always advocated for a well-organised and well-developed regional co-ordination system consisting of all organisations working on similar social and economic issues. CUTS-ARC will endeavour to workout such a system for the two developing regions. Resource: The primary responsibility of the CUTS-ARC is to function as a resource centre to Africa-based NGOs, consumer organisations as well as for the studies, research and advocacy programmes conducted by CUTS. The Centre will focus on capacity building activities on international trade, investment and competition policy issues, including other areas such as environment, consumer protection and regulatory reforms. The Centre would also provide a cost-effective way of providing assistance to a range of governments in the region in order to promote consistency of laws and policies, which would in turn facilitate trade and economic integration among the countries of the region. It would also endeavour for minimisation of the risk of duplication and wastage of technical assistance efforts by donor countries. Coordination: Currently CUTS-ARC is co-ordinating the activities of the African partners of the 7-Up project, viz. Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania and South Africa. The Centre’s role will be TO MANAGE THE PROCESS OF IMPLEMENTING THE PROJECT by initiating and sustaining liaison with the project partners in all the four countries. Networking: CUTS-ARC will take up the responsibility of creating, developing and maintaining a vibrant network with all consumer organisations including NGOs, donor agencies, embassies and other statutory bodies in Africa. The Centre will work in close cooperation with regional as well as international bodies like COMESA, SADC, ECOWAS, Consumer International Regional Office for Africa etc.
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Nairobi Resource Centre Yaya Court- 2nd Floor, No.5 Ring Road Kilimani off Argwings Kodhek Rd P.O.BOX 8188, 00200 Nairobi, Kenya. Ph: +254 20 3862149, 3862150, 20 2329112 Fax: +254-20- 3862149 Mobile: +254 721 612 664/ 733 990 202 E-mail: nairobi@cuts.org Website : www.cuts-international.org |
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