This is the latest Briefing Paper from ODI for COPLA. It argues that: Changes in employment, prices and social expenditures are three pathways linking trade and gender; Trade liberalisation may have positive or negative impacts, but there are risks for women; Trade reforms must be complemented by social and labour policies to ensure that women can take full advantage of the new economic environment

Each country team is employing a mixed methods approach involving a structured questionnaire, key informant interviews and focus group discussions with civil society actors and policy makers.

One of the key aims of COPLA is to foster policy dialogues and debates among
civil society groups and policy decision-makers around issues of trade, poverty

Access to and use of natural resources is a subject that has been the cause of considerable conflict and which until now, has remained unresolved by conventional democratic approaches and dialogue.

The research pillar of COPLA Peru is focused on the small agricultural sector, which is the main livelihood source for the rural poor.

8 page summary of the types and themes of the evidence, which will be generated in the programmes framework.