Gender and Trade - Issues and Concerns - Strengthening Gender Advocacy in Trade

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aixa ansorena Oct 11 2007 3:04AM	I am an anthropologist from Costa Rica. I would like to ask if there is anyone with experience working in customs Valuation and Origen Rules and its link with gender issues. The reason I am asking this is because in the context of the FTA signed by Costa Rica with Canada in 2001, the Canada Border Services Agency will assist the Customs administration and other key stakehlders in Costa Rica build capacity and reslove developmental challenges related to the valuation and origin of goods. The purpose is to enhance and build the capacity of Costa Rican Customs to deliver efficient and transparent Customs valuation and Origin Programs that facilitate trade, support private sector competitiveness, and pormote export led growth. The issues involved in this trainning is very technical and the transfer of knowledge will be achieved through the classroom lectures, presentations, work groups, ect. to the administrative staff of the Customs origin and valuation departments. Is there any study or guide of how gender component and/or analysis can be included in the custom valuation and custom origen issues? Thanks for your advise, Aixa Ansorena. aansoren@yahoo.es
Kevin Nellies Jul 27 2007 5:39PM	The goal of gender equality is now globally well recognized by international agencies and national governments alike. Interalia, it has been articulated through a number of international instruments and initiatives such as the World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna, the International Conference on Population and Development, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, CEDAW, Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing and the World Summit on Social Development, Beijing+5 conference of UN, Millennium Development Goals, MDGs adopted by 191 UN member countries and most recently Panel for UN Committee on Status of Women, CSW, New York. Efforts to mainstream gender within the work of WTO at all levels need to be viewed not merely as a moral issue but a legal obligation as well. A number of credible researches have brought out the linkages between the major agreements of WTO relating and adverse gender outcomes. Multilevel initiatives and institutional arrangements are necessary to reorient processes and policies of WTO in support of gender equality framework and objectives. Over the past couple of decades, a number of cross-country networks and coalitions of gender groups have emerged seeking to research and advocate gender concerns through multiple forums at various platforms. However, it is felt that a lot remains to be done in order to achieve the mainstreaming of gender in trade policies and practices at the national, regional and multilateral levels. We invite you all to share your views on the agenda of mainstreaming gender in trade and also provide us with specific suggestions in terms of what are the ways in which gender advocacy groups need to work and take the agenda forward. This post was updated at Oct 11 2007 3:04AM by Kevin Nellies

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aixa ansorena
Oct 11 2007 3:04AM

I am an anthropologist from Costa Rica. I would like to ask if there is anyone with experience working in customs Valuation and Origen Rules and its link with gender issues.

The reason I am asking this is because in the context of the FTA signed by Costa Rica with Canada in 2001, the Canada Border Services Agency will assist the Customs administration and other key stakehlders in Costa Rica build capacity and reslove developmental challenges related to the valuation and origin of goods. The purpose is to enhance and build the capacity of Costa Rican Customs to deliver efficient and transparent Customs valuation and Origin Programs that facilitate trade, support private sector competitiveness, and pormote export led growth.

The issues involved in this trainning is very technical and the transfer of knowledge will be achieved through the classroom lectures, presentations, work groups, ect. to the administrative staff of the Customs origin and valuation departments.

Is there any study or guide of how gender component and/or analysis can be included in the custom valuation and custom origen issues?

Thanks for your advise,

Aixa Ansorena.
aansoren@yahoo.es

Kevin Nellies
Jul 27 2007 5:39PM

The goal of gender equality is now globally well recognized by international agencies and national governments alike. Interalia, it has been articulated through a number of international instruments and initiatives such as the World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna, the International Conference on Population and Development, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, CEDAW, Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing and the World Summit on Social Development, Beijing+5 conference of UN, Millennium Development Goals, MDGs adopted by 191 UN member countries and most recently Panel for UN Committee on Status of Women, CSW, New York.

Efforts to mainstream gender within the work of WTO at all levels need to be viewed not merely as a moral issue but a legal obligation as well.
A number of credible researches have brought out the linkages between the major agreements of WTO relating and adverse gender outcomes.

Multilevel initiatives and institutional arrangements are necessary to reorient processes and policies of WTO in support of gender equality framework and objectives. Over the past couple of decades, a number of cross-country networks and coalitions of gender groups have emerged seeking to research and advocate gender concerns through multiple forums at various platforms. However, it is felt that a lot remains to be done in order to achieve the mainstreaming of gender in trade policies and practices at the national, regional and multilateral levels.

We invite you all to share your views on the agenda of mainstreaming gender in trade and also provide us with specific suggestions in terms of what are the ways in which gender advocacy groups need to work and take the agenda forward.

This post was updated at Oct 11 2007 3:04AM by Kevin Nellies