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The first session of the multi-year expert meeting is being held further to the decision taken at the forty-fourth executive session of the Trade and Development Board on 10 July 2008.
The objective of the multi-year expert meeting is to assist developing countries, especially those in Africa, LDCs and countries with special needs in accordance with the Accra Accord, as well as countries with economies in transition, in establishing regulatory and institutional frameworks and cooperative mechanisms to support strengthening of their domestic services capacity and its efficiency, competitiveness and export capacity.
According to the decision of the Board, this session of the multi-year expert meeting is to address:
- Trends and salient features of regulatory and institutional frameworks for services, development and trade.
- The efficiency and effectiveness of regulatory and institutional frameworks and their interaction with supply capacities, non-trade-related objectives, including universal access policies and trade liberalization.
- Exchange of experiences and best practices for building human capital, and institutional and regulatory frameworks based on sectoral and modal (including Mode 4) case studies and policy reviews.
The purpose of this meeting is to bring together experts and practitioners from Governments, services policymakers and regulators, trade negotiators, research institutions, civil society and the private sector to address the development implications of regulatory and institutional frameworks, and identify and clarify the key issues to be further analyzed to enhance the capacity of developing countries to benefit from services development and trade.
The outcome of the expert meeting will be used as input for the final session of the multi-year expert meeting, with a view to formulating practical options and actionable outcomes in line with paragraph 207 of the Accra Accord, including through the last of the four sessions of this multi-year expert meeting, which is expected to assess the impact of regulatory and institutional frameworks for services, development and trade and identify practical solutions, options, capacity-building programmes and indicative guidelines/checklists of best practices for policymakers and regulators.
Input from experts Experts nominated by member States are encouraged to submit brief papers (approximately five pages) as contributions to the work of the meeting. The papers will be made available at the meeting in the form and language in which they are received. Submit papers by 1 March 2009 to: Ms. Mina Mashayekhi F.: +41 22 917 0044 |
