Specialised Short Courses

Overview

As a means of providing an awareness and understanding in a particular topic on trade policy,trapca offers a number of specialized short courses. The design of the specialized short courses has taken into account both the recommendations on course topics emanating from a training needs assessments that was carried out in a number of African countries and the experiences from the short courses so far given by trapca. The specialized courses cover issues such as trade policy, gender and poverty alleviation; international negotiations, cooperation and management for trade; and the Singapore issues.

Target Group

The target audiences of the proposed short courses consist of those who are, or in the future will be, involved in trade-related activities in their capacity as officials, executives or members of relevant ministries and government agencies, parliamentary institutions, universities, business and civil society organisations in LDCs or other low income Sub-Saharan African countries.

Objectives

The relevance of the specialised short courses lies in their ability to promote the kinds of knowledge and understanding as well as key competencies and capacities that make it possible for participants to help their countries to:

Make full use of existing opportunities in foreign markets

Choose import, industrial investment and trade facilitation policies conducive to development and poverty reduction, given existing trade agreements

influence future agreements in an advantageous manner by negotiating improvements in access to foreign markets while maintaining abilities to pursue trade and trade influencing policies conducive to development and poverty reduction While a specialised short course alone cannot possibly be sufficient to allow the participants to directly help their countries pursue such high-level objectives, it may provide an awareness and understanding in a particular topic on trade policy.