What can I do in my country?
By regularly participating in the project’s activities, members of our National Reference Groups (NRGs) benefit from many opportunities:
Strengthen your network
Twice a year, starting in April 2016, you will be able to participate in a national event to share experiences with your fellow NRG members from the government, civil society, business, media, farming, academia etc. Members’ expertise cover agriculture, climate, trade, and agro-processing. An e-forum will also be launched for regular online discussions. A few members will also be invited for occasional visits to Geneva and participate in regional workshops.
Liaise with trade and climate negotiators
You will regularly interact with them both directly at events and indirectly by contributing to update notes provided to them through our negotiators’ forums. This will enable you not only to learn from them about ongoing negotiations, but also to inform and influence their negotiating positions.
Get trained and certified by trapca
Trainings will be tailored to the needs of specific key players towards developing long-lasting policy solutions for climate-aware, trade-driven, food security-enhancing agro-processing. The Trade Policy Training Centre in Africa (trapca) will award certificates to successful trainees.
Influence policies and practice
You will be part of advocacy campaigns geared towards improving government policies around coherent agro-processing development.
Improve your knowledge
You will contribute and have access to regular papers and studies that will shed light on the status, challenges and opportunities of holistic agro-processing development in East Africa.
