Institute Collaboration with International Organizations

The Institute collaborates with international intergovernmental organizations in the development and delivery of training to build trade-related capacity in developing country governments. Some examples of IIBE&L collaborative work include:

• World Trade Organization (WTO)
  The Institute and the WTO have completed an 18-month research project entitled "Managing the Challenges of WTO Participation". The project produced 45 case studies of how governments, the business community and NGOs have worked together in a wide range of situations in attempts to meet the challenges of their participation in the modern global economy, with a focus on how WTO membership has helped or hindered their efforts. The book scheduled for publication in November 2005, was funded jointly by AusAID and the Doha Development Agenda Global Trust Fund.
  
  
• Agency for International Trade Information and Cooperation
  Working with the Geveva-based Agency for International Trade Information and Cooperation, the Institute provided training to trade officials from small Pacific Island states at a three day session in Brisbane (9-11 December 2003). Institute-delivered training covered up-to-date information on the WTO negotiations on agricultural trade reform, non agricultural market access and possibilities for reform within the WTO system.
  
  
• United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia-Pacific (UNESCAP) and World Trade Organization (WTO)
  IIBE&L provided the training on WTO trade in services negotiations to the officials trained in the February 2003 course held in Bangkok, Thailand.
  
  
• International Development Law Organisation (IDLO)
  IIBE&L Executive Director Stoler developed and delivered the training module addressed to the rules governing contingent trade remedies (antidumping, subsidies/countervail and safeguards) as part of the IDLO-WTO trade related capacity building program for South and East Asian government officials and NGO trainers in Sydney, 28 May 2003.
  
  
• IDLO Public International Trade Law Course
  Members of the Institute developed and delivered two two-day training modules for the October 2003 public international trade law course sponsored by the International Development Law Organization.
  Institute Executive Director Stoler delivered two days of interactive training on contingent trade remedies on 13-14 October.
  Institute Associate Expert Peter Gallagher delivered two days of training on market access issues on 8-9 October.