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Trade Policy and Negotiations

The document outlines an 8-week trade policy course for African countries. It will cover (1) identifying national trade interests and objectives, (2) understanding regional integration programs and trade negotiations, and (3) developing inclusive trade policies. The course will be taught in Cape Town and Stellenbosch, starting in October 2016. It will equip participants to articulate trade ideas, enhance consultations, and improve capacity in trade negotiations. Ideal candidates will have degrees and work experience in areas related to trade such as policy, negotiations, and trade promotion.

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Trade Policy and Negotiations

The document outlines an 8-week trade policy course for African countries. It will cover (1) identifying national trade interests and objectives, (2) understanding regional integration programs and trade negotiations, and (3) developing inclusive trade policies. The course will be taught in Cape Town and Stellenbosch, starting in October 2016. It will equip participants to articulate trade ideas, enhance consultations, and improve capacity in trade negotiations. Ideal candidates will have degrees and work experience in areas related to trade such as policy, negotiations, and trade promotion.

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Trade policy and negotiations

Program outline
During 2016 African countries will be involved in the start of the Continental Free Trade negotiations under the
auspices of the African Union. It is anticipated that these negotiations will continue until at least 2018. The 26 Eastern
and Southern African countries will also be involved in the negotiations relating to phase two of the Tripartite Free
Trade Agreement which is also anticipated to be concluded by 2018. In addition, during 2016 African countries are
expected to: begin the implementation of the Economic Partnership Agreements that the various African regions have
concluded with the European Union; continue benefitting from the preferential market access granted to African
countries under the USs African Growth Act (AGOA); continue deepening their regional integration activities under
the direction of COMESA, EAC, ECOWAS, SADC, SACU; and deepen their involvement with the on-going Doha
Round of the World Trade Organisation. This will require all African countries to further develop their internal capacity
to refine their national trade policies and to ensure that they are able to benefit from these various trade opportunities.
In order to do this they will need to strengthen their internal negotiations with key stakeholders to ensure that national
policies and trade negotiation strategies reflect their interests. This will require national trade policies that are
inclusive, gender sensitive and well-articulated by their national trade negotiators.
The eight week course will be taught partly on the campus of the University of Cape Towns Business School and
partly on the campus of the University of Stellenbosch. The course will start on 17 October 2016 and finish on 9
December 2016.

Course objectives
By the end of the course, Awardees will:

be equipped with the tools they need to clearly identify and articulate their countrys national interests and
objectives in current and future trade negotiations;

be equipped with the theoretical underpinnings of international trade negotiations as articulated by the World
Trade Organisation and other international bodies concerned with the various aspects of international trade
policy;

gain a detailed understanding of the current status of the regional integration programmes of the region(s)
their country is involved with, and how this compares with other African regions;

be equipped with the tools they need to enhance their national consultation processes and develop inclusive
trade policies and national negotiating strategies that will contribute to national growth and poverty
alleviation; and

receive assistance to improve their capacity to confidently and professionally articulate their ideas to their
superiors, colleagues and wider national stakeholders.

Characteristics of ideal candidates


Candidates should have a first degree in a subject of relevance to their current job; have worked for their current
employer for at least three years; and be professionally involved in trade policy development, trade policy
implementation, trade negotiations, aid for trade, trade related advocacy for specific stakeholders (private sector,
women entrepreneurs, non-Government Organisations, etc.), trade promotion, or trade facilitation.

Course content including pre and post engagement requirements


A pre-course e-learning assignment will ensure that all participants are familiar with the basic tools and terms of
international trade prior to starting the course this will include the required reference materials.
The eight week course consists of four major components: weeks 1 and 2 Introduction and Trade Fundamentals;
weeks 3 and 4 Professional Certificate of International Trade modules delivered through e-learning and video
conferences with the IIT staff who teach this course to our post-graduate students in Adelaide; weeks 5 and 6
International Trade and Development and Trade in Goods; and weeks 7 and 8 Trade in Services.

The course will include applied and extension activities (including relevant site visits), practical skills development,
case studies from various African countries, regional trade negotiations simulations, policy-making and participatory
exercises, video link-ups with specialists at the Institute for International Trade and the University of Adelaide, elearning, engagement with relevant regional institutions, and contributions to work-place change (including through
the post-course Work Programme on Return assignment).

Course details on a weekly basis


MODULE
Introduction and
Trade Fundamentals

DESCRIPTION
Course overview and introduction to South Africa,
review of the pre-course e-learning assignment and key
international trade issues, participant country priorities
and policies, economic and trade modeling, major
African regional economic communities and trade
agreements;

LOCATION
University of
Cape Town
Business
School, Cape
Town, South
Africa

WEEK 3 & 4

Professional
Certificate of
International Trade

This is a University of Adelaide accredited professional


post-graduate certificate which addresses the
fundamental issues of international trade and the
requirements of the World Trade Organisation

WEEK 5 & 6

International Trade
and Development
and Trade in Goods

International trade and poverty reduction, international


trade and gender, aid for trade, rules of origin,
negotiating a trade in goods agreement, special and
differential treatment

University of
Cape Town
Business
School, Cape
Town, South
Africa
University of
Stellenbosch,
Stellenbosch,
South Africa

WEEK 7 & 8

Trade in Services

The international trade in services revolution, the


challenges of trade in services for African negotiators,
investment promotion in the services sector, case
studies on various African services sectors, developing
a national trade in services negotiations strategy,
services regulation and dispute settlement.

WEEK 1 & 2

University of
Stellenbosch,
Stellenbosch,
South Africa

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