PIF – 24 March 2021
AID-FOR-TRADE STOCKTAKING EVENT
LEVERAGING PACIFIC REGIONALISM TO SUPPORT ECONOMIC RECOVERY AND RESILIENCE
24 March 2021
8:00-9:30am Central European Time (7:00-8:30pm Fiji Time)
Virtual Event
Register for the Webinar HERE
This session will explore regional Aid for Trade approaches in supporting pathways for longer term inclusive economic recovery and resilience in the Pacific, with a particular focus on private sector resilience, open markets and supply chains, revitalising export markets, accessing finance for trade and investment, skills development and job creation, including for women.
Themes to be explored in the discussion will include:
- resource mobilisation and implementation of the Pacific Aid for Trade Strategy 2020-2025;
- entry into force of the regional trade and development agreement PACER Plus
- uptake of digitisation of trade processes and trade facilitation innovations;
- targeted e-commerce capacity building;
- labour mobility initiatives; and
- effective partnerships and donor coordination
Join the panelists for a discussion and Q&A:
- Mr Bill Costello, Labour Mobility and Economic Growth Branch, Office of the Pacific, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Ms Erja Askola, Deputy Head of Delegation, Permanent Delegation of the EU to the Pacific
- Mr Stanley Trief, Manager, Vanuatu Electronic Single Window System
- Ms Mary Elizabeth Ramosaea, Team Lead, KBC-Elevate Ltd, Solomon Islands
- Ms Jenna Diallo, Deputy Director, Office of Economic Development and Governance, USAID Philippines
- Mr Desmond Tupangaia, Unit Manager – People Trade and Culture, Pacific Regional Division, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
The event will be moderated by Mr Zarak Khan, Director of Programs and Initiatives, Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat
For more Information please contact:
Dr Andrea Giacomelli (Mr), Aid-for-Trade and Trade Policy Advisor, Permanent Delegation of the Pacific Islands Forum to the United Nations, World Trade Organization, and Other International Organizations in Geneva; email: andrea.giacomelli@pifs-geneva.ch
or
Ms Sabrina Varma, Aid for Trade Adviser, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Australia; email Sabrina.Varma@dfat.gov.au
Background documents/links
- Pacific Aid for Trade Strategy 2020-2025
- Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER) Plus
- Vanuatu Single Window Portal
- Senator the Hon Marise Payne, Responding to the COVID-19 challenge in the Pacific
- Australian Government’s Pacific Step-up – Australia stepping-up to address COVID-19 in the Pacific
- Australian Government’s Pacific Step-up – Development assistance in the Pacific, Pacific Regional – COVID-19 Response Packages
