CUTS Africa Resource Centre (CUTS ARC), Lusaka, in collaboration with Service Centre for Development Cooperation (Kepa), Zambia, Civil Society Trade Network of Zambia (CSTNZ), Participatory Ecological Land Use Management (PELUM) and Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) organised a training seminar on EPAs, in Lusaka, on May 14-16, 2007.
The seminar was attended by various stakeholders, including civil society organisations (CSOs), government officials, and media persons, Kepa policy officers from the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) region and Finland, and CSO representatives from South Africa and Tanzania, and a representative from the EC delegation in Zambia.
The objective of the seminar was to exchange information and ideas on the ongoing EPA negotiations with the view to help stakeholders to feed into the negotiations.