Information exchange and networking on trade issues:

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Information exchange and networking on trade
issues www.acp-eu-trade.org Davina Makhan
ECDPM Euforic AGM - 29 June 2006
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• Background
• Multitude of activities on EPA negotiations at
  national and regional levels (meetings,
  conferences, studies, etc.)
• Yet, information remains scattered
• www.acp-eu-trade.org a free platform to access
  publicly available information, from a variety of
  sources, in English and in French, on ACP-EU
  trade related matters

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• Opportunity input into EPA negotiations by
  facilitating access to key (policy-)relevant
  documents, news, web links and expertise
• Challenges
• Identify (sources of) information and analysis
• Foster partnership and ownership of the website,
  engage stakeholders to share information
• Highlight the contents of the website, make it
  more widely known

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• Approach/methodology
• Building on ECDPMs network of partners and
  contacts
• Browsing the web

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• Approach/Methodology (continued)
• The networking principle

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• Tools
• Promotional flyer

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• Tools (continued)
• Highlighting information
• Immediate rss feeds (to come)
• Digested
• Dossiers (to come)
• acp-eu-trade.org newsletter

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• Outstanding question
• how to generate a more systematic flow of
  information, synergies and ownership by other
  institutions?

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