Work plans: The Inclusive Trade Action Group
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Background
Following the March 2018 endorsement of the Joint Declaration on Fostering Progressive and Inclusive Trade, the Inclusive Trade Action Group (ITAG) was officially launched in November 2018 in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea on the margins of the 2018 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders Meeting.
Since then, many ITAG activities have been successfully carried out under consensus-based work plans. A key outcome of ITAG was the establishment of the Global Trade and Gender Arrangement (GTAGA), which has grown to include Canada and ten other members, including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, New Zealand and Peru.
Work plans
Completed work to date
- 2019-01-30 - Inaugural ITAG WTO caucus meeting in Geneva.
- 2019-03-05 - ITAG officials presented at the Canada-sponsored APEC “Capacity Building Workshop on Women and Trade”.
- 2019-03-05 - Inaugural ITAG officials and APEC ITAG caucus meetings on the margins of the APEC SOM1 meetings in Santiago, Chile.
- 2019-03-18 - ITAG officials presented at the Canada-sponsored Workshop on Labour in Trade Agreements at the WTO in Geneva.
- 2019-03-28 - Second WTO ITAG caucus in Geneva.
- 2019-05-16 - Ministerial meeting of ITAG in the margins of the APEC Meeting of Ministers’ Responsible for Trade in Valparaiso, Chile.
- 2019-06-27 - ITAG seminar at the WTO on the linkages between agricultural trade and the sustainable development goals, sponsored by New Zealand.
- 2019-09-10 - ITAG Workshop on Trade Policy Engagement in Santiago.
- 2019-10-07 - Second CPTPP Commission meeting in Auckland, New Zealand; Meeting of ITAG officials and promotion of Trade and Gender Arrangement to CPTPP members.
- 2019-10-08 - World Indigenous Business Forum (WIBF), Vancouver, Canada; Meeting of ITAG officials and discussion on inclusive trade and Indigenous Peoples.
- 2020-08-04 - Signing of the Global Trade and Gender Arrangement.
- 2020-09-30 - ITAG seminar during the Geneva Trade week: “How can e-commerce trade policy contribute to Inclusive Development for Underrepresented Communities”.
- 2020-12-10 - Canada hosted the first activity under the Global Trade and Gender Arrangement. Canada, Chile and New Zealand provided presentations on their current domestic programming and policies that support women’s economic empowerment and gender.
- 2021-06-09 - OECD webinar with the objective of raising awareness of trade/gender nexus; promote GTAGA; expand membership of GTAGA by encouraging others to join; inform of OECD work on trade and gender.
- 2021-06-23 - Chile hosted the second activity organized under the Global Trade and Gender Arrangement entitled “Unlocking opportunities for women entrepreneurs in Canada, Chile and New Zealand”.
- 2021-09-21 - Webinar “Women and Trade: Empowerment through inclusion” to promote the GTAGA in Germany in the context of the Sustainability week.
- 2021-10-06 - Welcoming ceremony for Mexico’s participation in ITAG and GTAGA.
- 2022-05-22 - Ministerial Meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, to discuss the work done and agreed to move forward on specific actions according to the Work Plan.
- 2022-06-13 - Welcoming ceremony for the participation of Colombia and Peru in GTAGA and Ministerial Declaration addressing inclusive trade.
- 2022-09-13 - Ambassadors from GTAGA countries met in Geneva to discuss how to jointly promote inclusive trade.
- 2022-09-28 - Session "Supporting underrepresented exporters in global recovery: from theory to practice" at the WTO Public Forum in Geneva.
- 2022-11-09 - Webinar "Women in STEM: Fixing the ‘leaky pipeline’"; where pioneering women and GTAGA representatives shared their visions, experiences, and challenges.
- 2023-05-15 - Welcoming ceremony for the participation of Costa Rica and Ecuador in ITAG and GTAGA.
- 2024-09-25 - Webinar "Best practices on the use of gender disaggregated data in Chile"
- 2024-11-26 - Inclusive Trade Symposium on the margins of the CPTPP Commission in Vancouver, Canada.
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