Lusaka, Zambia, March 01, 2010

CUTS- International, Lusaka organised an EPA update meeting on 1st March, 2010 whose objective was to discuss the status of the EPA negotiations and strategise Civil Society Organisation engagement on the EPA negotiations. CUTS facilitated this meeting in order to provide continuity analysing EPA negotiation by CSOs and the meeting resolved around the following actions.

Analysing the contentious issues and providing new dimensions to the EPA negotiations.

Conduct a public symposium on the state of play of the EPA and inviting key stakeholders to deliberate

Lobby a meeting with the ESA chair so as to exchange ideas on the EPA negotiations

Lobby for a column a print media organisation and educate the masses about EPA and why the CSO’s position