Fifth meeting of the Advisory Group on the strengthening of UNCTAD training capacities and human resources development

Fifth meeting of the Advisory Group on the strengthening of UNCTAD training capacities and human resources development

26/11/2007

The event is organized by the New Technologies, Training and Capacity Building Branch through its three cross-divisional training and capacity-building programmes:
- TrainForTrade
- Virtual Institute on Trade and Development
- Course on Key International Economic Issues


UNCTAD opened the meeting with a presentation about “Report of the result of the 2006 meeting”.

The Advisory Group on the Strengthening of UNCTAD Training Capacities and Human Resources Development was set up in 2001 to advise the Secretary General of UNCTAD on the evolution of UNCTAD´s training and capacity building activities and to put forth proposals to enhance the work being carried out in this area.

- The Advisory Group on the Strengthening of UNCTAD Training Capacities and Human Resources Development was set up in 2001 to advise the Secretary General of UNCTAD on the evolution of UNCTAD´s training and capacity building activities and to put forth proposals to enhance the work being carried out in this area.
- This year, the Group members will focus on the role of international organizations in building and sharing knowledge for trade and development. They will examine some of the innovative approaches being developed by, or in cooperation with, international organizations and will discuss how successful they are or have been in addressing the knowledge needs of developing countries and for trade and development.

Moreover, different delegations or people who wants to learn about trade and development (teachers for example) , could access about many information the web, thanks to The UNCTAD Virtual Institute on Trade and Development:

http://vi.unctad.org:8080/unctadvi/secure/unHome.jsf

ITC (International Training Centre) of the ILO made a presentation about his activities. We could see that the participation on the training during the last years.
In the one hand, The Americas is the most people participant on the training session.

In the other hand, the purpose of ILO is to strengthening the capacity and knowledge for all different persons (members, employers, workers, judge, lawyers, teacher, government…).

After a few presentation about the “policy development program of the academy of the WIPO” by Gao Hang, Deputy dean and head of policy development program of the WIPO Worldwide Academy, Phil Rourke (CTPL) speak us about “The Ideas Business: Building sustainable think tanks.



Damien AFONSO