COPLA has awarded lessons learning a key role in the overall programme. Rather than waiting until the end of the research and influencing phases, COPLA has already begun a processes of lessons identification and sharing among the partners.

A key aim of COPLA is to address the effect of trade policies on those who are socially excluded.

This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to poverty, including five different perspectives from the disciplines of economics, sociology, anthropology, psychology and institutional economics.

This paper proposes a typology of civil society actors based on organizational attributes and worldviews.

This paper provides a literature review that explores the recent developments in the areas of trade and integration and trade and gender within the greater Caribbean. The paper provides detailed and analytical sections on three main themes; globalisation, regional integration related to trade liberalisation, and the gender issues of trade liberalisation.

Since liberalization, cut flowers have become a major export-orientated product in Colombia and are now of crucial importance in terms of revenue and employment, in particular female employment. This paper focuses on the impact of cut flower production and trade in Colombia with a specific focus on the effects of the industry on women workers. The aim of the paper is to identify and examine strategies that support women workers in their struggle for a better life and improved working conditions.

Both COPLA Nicaragua and Bolivia address the use of natural resources by the poor. While it is recognised that their participation in the value chain is important, it is also true that this does not guarantee success for those involved. It is also the case that a wide range of policies are necessary to develop the systems, competencies and skills that are conducive to the poor successfully participating of community based forestry and the trade of forest-related products. A recent paper from ODI Natural Resoruces Perspective by Benno Pokorny and James Johnson suggests the following:

The paper explores the arguments for considering gender when negotiating and implementing trade agreements.

The authors study the manufacturing sector in urban Mexico during the trade liberalization period (1987-1993) in order to establish if there was a change in the gender wage gap after opening up to com

International trade and sustainable tourism in Chile: Preliminary assessment of the sustainability of tourism in Chile in the context of current trade liberalization

This project is part of the Latin American Chapter of the International Gender and Trade Network (LA-IGNT).

The aim of the author is to analyse how shifts in macro economic policies impact the provisioning of care in households and communities.

This paper provides a literature review that explores the recent developments in the areas of trade and integration and trade and gender within the greater Caribbean.

The author reviews the literature on gender, trade and investment in the English-speaking regions of the Caribbean.

Uruguay since the 1970s has slowly undergone a number of changes in its employment structure and productive patterns as a consequence of an increase in trade.

Since liberalization, cut flowers have become a major export-orientated product in Colombia and are now of crucial importance in terms of revenue and employment, in particular female employment.

The fact sheet looks at the potential gender impacts of the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) on women in Central America.

The past 22nd October, the first round of negotiations for the Association Agreement between EU and Central America began in Costa Rica.

San José, COSTA RICA - The first round of negotiations between the European Union and Central American countries begins.

[From Abstrat] On June 19, 2006, policy experts met at a conference on “Trade and Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean”, convened by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and supported b

'This publication reports the results of a project on trade policy-making in eight Western Hemisphere nations jointly conducted by the IDB's INTAL and ITD, the University of Toronto's Munk Centre for

The Civil Society Influence Program tries to strengthen the influence capacity of both CIPPEC and other CSOs in Argentina and throughout Latin America by using methodological tools for planning and im