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Short Summary |
This publication is aimed at CIDA officers, partners,
and development practitioners internationally. It provides a tool
to ensure that the differential impact of trade on women and men is
understood, and that men and women are able to benefit equally from
the new opportunities created by trade liberalisation. Trade-related
capacity building, or TRCB, is defined as 'activities that create
the necessary skills and capacities among government, private sector
and civil society actors to enable them to work together [on trade
issues]'. These capacities include: analysing, formulating and implementing
trade policy; building trade-related institutions; engaging in trade
and supplying international markets; negotiating and implementing
trade agreements; and addressing the need for transitional adjustment
measures for sectors and groups of people affected by trade reform.
The tool highlights gender equality issues, barriers and needs in
relation to various aspects of trade liberalisation and trade-related
capacity building. It also suggests that gender may be addressed through
a variety of mechanisms in these programmes, including in policy-development
processes, improvements in analytical and technical capacities within
and between partner organisations and through the development of standards.
The involvement of women and an ongoing awareness in these processes
of the ways in which gender inequality persists is crucial. |
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