Day IV

I. Monitoring progress (continued)

Participants completed their gender analysis activity, with working groups on each of the topics. Discussion points highlighted the need for information, the way things are nuanced and intertwined, not black and white, the need to help negotiators, particularly with critical thinking.

Learning outcome

Use gender analysis framework

II. Tourism and Barbados

John Hollingsworth of the Barbados team presented the case study of gender and tourism in Barbados, outlining tourism developments there, identifying the gender dimensions (employment, social relations, educational opportunities, attractions and social services, community tourism, satisfaction in the industry, opportunities and constraints). He set it in the context of tourism and trade liberalisation, regional perspectives and negotiations.

Learning outcomes

Have access to a good case study.
Consider example in light of liberalisation issues.

III. Services liberalisation

Mariama Williams delivered this session, identifying as key issues about gender and services:

• Competitive immiserisation
• Access, affordability and availability of public services
• Impact on women’s time burden

Learning outcome

Get overview of issues

IV. Gender and ICTs: Policy and practice case studies

St Lucia

Maura Felix outlined the policy framework and regional trade concerns with St Lucia’s autonomous liberalisation of ICT. Damian Biscette presented the case study of Windward Ltd, a data processing company in St Lucia, owned and largely staffed by women, providing flexible and supportive working conditions.

Jamaica

Faith Webster outlined the national policy context, with the ICT vision for Jamaica of making it a knowledge-based society and ICT hub of the Caribbean, though the ICT policy is not engendered. Deirdre Salmon described the ICT framework, including the e-learning project, and the issues affecting women, highlighting the lack of data about women’s employment in ICT, access issues for women and the fact that ICT research is not engendered.

In summing up, Mariama Williams stressed that gender policy should be linked with both development and ICT policy.

Dorienne Rowan Campbell presented the ICT and gender Makusi case study from Guyana. Describing how IT and IT training made helped develop and document Amerindian women’s knowledge, skills and roles in sustainable environmental management and built their capacity for transferring both traditional and modern technological knowledge.

Learning outcomes

• Apply information and frameworks to examples
• Compare experiences of different countries
• Identify areas for collaboration and networking

V. Gender and NAMA

Mariama Williams presented this session on non-agricultural market access. She identified entry points for the gender dimension, the underlying gender realities and the development effects of NAMA.

VI. Gender and export strategy design

To conclude the day’s work Sabine Meitzel of the International Trade Centre in Geneva delivered a session on gender and export strategy design. She outlined the work of the centre, which is concerned with the business aspects of trade development and getting the business voice heard in trade negotiations (eg competitiveness, sectoral interests). She identified priority areas for gender-related activities: export-led poverty reduction; business management for exports; e-facilitated trade; export of services; national export strategy design; service exports by women entrepreneurs. She introduced the centre’s ITC compendium of tools for business, including the four gears model:
• Border in (supply side)
• Border issues (trade facilities, documentation etc)
• Border out (market access, etc, demand side)
• Development issues (poverty reduction etc).

Learning outcomes

Get overview of information.
Identify gender issues for four ‘gears’.

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