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Latin America Gender and Trade Network (LAGTN) Economic Literacy

The LAGTN economic literacy focal point is Norma Sanchís (Argentina).

Additional regional resources are available on the Spanish-language web site for LAGTN, Red Internacional de Género y Comercio: www.generoycomercio.org.

Current LAGTN economic literacy resources include:

“Comercio Internacional, Agricultura y Alimentación”, March 2007, LAGTN.

A capacity-building tool, which presents ideas, data, reflections and exercises on the theme of trade, agriculture and food and its gender impacts in Latin America. This material has only been produced in Spanish and Portuguese. Download at: www.generoycomercio.org/capacitacion.html

Virtual Seminar: Creación de capacidades para la incidencia en las relaciones comerciales. Relaciones Comerciales Unión Europea - América Latina. 25^th September – 8^th December 2006

This Virtual Seminar was oriented to strengthen social and women’s movements capacity to advocate in trade negotiations, particularly those related to Latin America and the European Union. Women and men from the women’s movement, social and grass-roots organizations, unions and the Academia participated actively in the Seminar.

The methodology included 4 modules that covered the following topics: International Trade and Gender Equity; the Relation between Latin America and the European Union and the trade agreements in negotiation; and Civil Society advocacy in those agreements. Each module included the reading of documents elaborated by specialists and other recommended articles, the participation in interactive forums and the exchange of information and experiences among participants.

Economy Literacy Centro América Seminar on “Gender, Economy and Trade", 8^th to 10^th March, 2007. Organized by LAGTN Training Coordination in Antigua, Guatemala.

25 women from Central America and Mexico participated in the Seminar, held in beautiful Antigua Guatemala. Its objectives were to analyze and share perspectives on free trade agreements in the Region, and to exchange experiences of women and social organizations from Central America, Mexico and South America. The training team was integrated by LAGTN members from Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico, Brazil and Guatemala.

Methodological Notes for the Training of Trainers in Gender, Economics, and Free Trade, June 2004, LAGTN and WIDE.

Women frequently see information on gender, economics, and trade as the preserve of specialists; they do not feel as part of the debates and are not always able to formulate alternatives. For this reason the objective of the training area of LAGTN is to develop a nucleus of committed women, trained in these topics in order to gradually extend the circles of debate and proposals that can involve other sectors of the women movement. To this end we have initiated a process of training in economics and free trade that allows activists to add new concepts and information on the impacts of regional governments’ decisions in their demands.

OMC - a Arquitetura do Fundamentalismo de Mercado, Graciela Rodriguez, IGTN Brazil, Equit Institute coordinator, Currently the IGTN Global Coordinator, March 2003

El Comercio Internacional: ¿Una Oportunidad para la Equidad Social y de Género?, Alma Espino y Paola Azar. IGTN Uruguay.

El material trata de los procesos de integración y las políticas comerciales más importantes para América Latina y el Caribe revisados y analizados incorporando criterios de género. 116 pages.

Fascículo 1: La Economía Global: una visión desde las mujeres, November 2003.

Presentación: - Género y Economía - Desarrollo y Globalización - El Comercio Internacional: ¿Cuáles son las ventajas del comercio? ¿Cuál es la importancia de las políticas comerciales? - Efectos de la liberalización comercial sobre la situación de las mujeres y las relaciones de género. - América Latina: El contexto de las iniciativas de integración

Fascículo 2: Quién gana y quien pierde en los acuerdos de integración económica, November 2003

Fascículo 3: La Integración Americana hacia el Siglo XXI: ¿Asociación de Libre Comercio?, November 2003

Presentación: - Los procesos de integración económica regional y países Latinoamericanos - Acuerdo de Libre Comercio de las Américas - Los ejes del debate en el continente - Oposición de fuerzas: ALCA vs. MERCOSUR - La posición de la sociedad civil frente al ALCA - Balance y perspectives.

Workshop on Gender, Economy and Trade as part of the Programme Training of Trainers - TOT, Guatemala, 8th to the 10th of March, 2007.