Representations

  • Pradeep S Mehta, Bipul Chatterjee and Fredrick Njehu attended the Global Poverty Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa on January 17-18, 2011. The meeting discussed both the Doha Development Round and Millennium Development Goals.
  • Clement Onyango attended a regional stakeholder meeting on Trade Related Aspects pf Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) and Pharmaceutical Industry in EAC organised by GTZ in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme in Arusha, Tanzania on December 06-09, 2010.
  • Samson Awino and Fredrick Njehu attended the 3rd Annual Trade Policy Training Center in Africa (TRAPCA) conference on ‘China on Africa: Dragon Forays?’ in Arusha, Tanzania on November 25-26, 2010.
  • Victor Ogalo attended a regional workshop on ‘Regional Cooperation in East Africa: Implications for Agricultural Development and Food Security’ organised by Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) in Nairobi Kenya on October 25-26, 2010.
  • Samson Awino attended a workshop on ‘Aligning Agricultural Policies to the Current Constitutional Regimes’ organised by the Centre for Governance and Development (CGD) in Nakuru, Kenya on September 23-25, 2010.
  • Clement Onyango attended a strategic meeting for East African Civil Society Forum with support from Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), East African Community, in Nairobi Kenya held on September 13, 2010.
  • Victor Ogalo attended a workshop on ‘Politics of Food Security’ organised by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, in Nairobi, Kenya on September 06, 2010.
  • Daniel Asher made a presentation during the second annual African consumer dialogue conference in Arusha, on July 12-14, 2010.
  • Victor Ogalo and Fredrick Njehu attended a regional workshop for Members of Parliament on ‘Sustaining the East Africa Community II Integration process: A reality or an illusion’ organised by Southern and Eastern African Trade Information and Negotiations Institute (SEATINI) Kenya in Nairobi, on June 17-18, 2010. Victor made a presentation on ‘A Comparative Study of RTAs with Other Regional Blocks in ACP, COMESA, SADC and CARRIFORUM: Lessons for EAC’.
  • Samson Awino participated in the Tripartite Regional Integration Forum organised by the Trade Policy Training Centre in Africa (TRAPCA) in Arusha on June 17-18, 2010.
  • Daniel Asher participated in the Advocacy Training Workshop organised by Kenya Water and Sanitation CSO Network (KEWASNET) in partnership with African CSOs’ Network on Water and Sanitation (ANEW) in Thika, Kenya during 14-19 March, 2010.Report
  • Clement Onyango participated and made a presentation on CUTS work on Competition during the First African Competition Forum organised by the Ministry of Finance, Monopolies and Price commission with support from Department for International Development (DFID), UK, in Nairobi in March 2010.
  • Samson Awino and Fredrick Njehu participated in the fourth TRAPCA conference on theme ‘Looking Ahead: Implications of the Global Economic Crisis on the Trade Activity Path for Developing Countries’ in Arusha, November 26-27, 2009.
  • Clement Onyango made two presentations entitled ‘Strengthening Regional Consumer Movements to Face the Challenges of the Future: Funding, Training, and Government Commitment’ and ‘Overview of African Consumer Protection Legal Frameworks and Common Consumer Protection Challenges’ during the First African Dialogue Consumer Protection Conference entitled ‘African Consumer Protection in the Midst of the International Financial Crises’, in Johannesburg, on August 17-19, 2009. The dialogue was organised by the South African Department of Trade and Industry and the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
  • Victor Ogalo participated in the eighth African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Forum with the theme ‘Realising the Full Potential of AGOA through Expansion of Trade and Investment’ in Nairobi, on August 04-06, 2009.
  • Victor Ogalo attended a validation workshop on the ‘Study of Impact of Climate Change in the East African Community’ organised by GTZ East Africa office in Arusha, on July 29-31, 2009.
  • Fredrick Njehu participated in the 2nd East African Investment Conference with the theme: ‘Invest in EAC, where challenges are opportunities’ jointly organised by the Government of Kenya, East African community (EAC) and the East Africa Business Council (EABC) in Nairobi on July 29-31, 2009.
  • Victor Ogalo and Fredrick Njehu attended training on ‘Rules of origin and Common External tariff” organised by the East African Business Council (EABC), Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KNCCI) supported by the Commonwealth Secretariat, in Nairobi, on July 23-24, 2009.
  • Victor Ogalo and Fredrick Njehu attended a research conceptualisation and stakeholders consultative workshop on the theme ‘Regional integration and equity’ organised by Society for International Development (SID) in Nairobi, on July 02-03, 2009.
  • Daniel Asher attended consultative meeting on ‘Consumer Voice in the National Budget Making Process’ organised by Kenya Producers Coalition in Partnership with Centre for Governance and Development (CGD) in Kenya, on March 23, 2009.
  • Daniel Asher attended research conference on ‘WHO Global Strategy and Plan of Action on Public Health Innovation and Intellectual Property’ organised by the Geneva-based research group IQsensato in Nairobi on March 13, 2009.
  • Victor Ogalo attended a CSO EPA Audit workshop organised through the Kenya Post Lome Trade Programme (KEPLOTRADE) Fund in Naivasha, on February 25-27, 2009. The purpose was to bring together CSOs and EPA negotiators for updates on the developments since the initialing of EPAs in November 2007; share perspectives on some of the contentious issues whose negotiations have been underway since 2008; and propose way forward for agreeing an inclusive EAC EPA.
  • Victor Ogalo of CUTS, Nairobi participated in a ‘CSO EPA Audit’ organised by Kenya Civil society Alliance and Kenya-European Union Post Lome Trade Negotiations (KEPLOTRADE) in Naivasha, on February 25-27, 2009.
  • Victor Ogalo of CUTS Africa Resource Centre, Nairobi attended an ‘Aid for Trade’ workshop in the UK, on June 05, 2008.
  • Victor Ogalo and Daniel Okendo of CUTS, Nairobi attended an ‘ISO National Workshop on Consumer Involvement in Standardisation’, organised by the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS), in collaboration with Consumer Information Network (CIN), on September 22-23, 2008.