CUTS Africa Resource Centre

CUTS-AFRICA RESOURCE CENTRE

Helping African CSOs Influence the EPA Negotiations
Lusaka, Zambia, on February 08-09, 2007

CUTS ARC, Lusaka, in collaboration with Overseas Development Institute (ODI), Civil Society Trade Network
of Zambia (CSTNZ), Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR), Participatory Ecological Land Use Management
(PELUM) Association, and the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJDP), will host a workshop to launch
the project entitled, ‘Helping African CSOs Influence the EPA Negotiations’, at Lusaka, Zambia,
on February 08-09, 2007.

The workshop will focus on the highly contested element that cannot be ‘negotiated out’ of the EPA:
‘reciprocity’ or the need for African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) members to remove trade barriers on ‘
substantially all’ their imports from the EU over a transition period.

Media workshop on EPAs
Lusaka, Zambia, January 06, 2007.

CUTS ARC, Lusaka, with support from Oxfam (Novib, The Netherlands) will host a media workshop on EPAs, at Lusaka, Zambia, on January 06, 2007.
The objective of the workshop is to engage media in Zambia on EPA negotiations, enhance communications on EPA between policy makers, CSOs, and the media and to launch the two-year project entitled: ‘Capacity Building on Media Coverage on Trade and Development Reporting in Zambia’.
The project will be implemented in partnership with OneWorld Africa (OWA), Zambia.

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Lusaka Resource Centre
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Ph: +260.1.224992
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