Sustainability Impact Assessment
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Proposed WTO Multilateral Trade Negotiations
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Development Policy and Management
The University of Manchester
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Links to other IDPM websites on impact assessment:
http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/idpm/research/iarc
The
aim of the Impact Assessment Research Centre (IARC) is to promote better
understanding of the likely or actual economic, social and environmental
impacts of policy and project interventions, and thereby contribute to
more effective evidence-based decision making. The work of the Centre
is multidisciplinary, and recognises that sustainable development can
only be achieved on the basis of a balanced assessment of the economic,
social and environmental impacts of policies and projects. The IARC focuses
primarily on the needs and experiences of developing countries and countries
in transition.
www.enterprise-impact.org.uk
The web site of the Enterprise Development Impact Assessment Information
Service (EDIAIS) contains case studies, methodological tools and other
materials aimed at assisting those involved in enterprise development
to measure the effects of their interventions.
Institutional Websites for Trade and SIA information:
Government and Inter-Governmental
http://europa.eu.int/comm/trade/index_en.htm
The European Commission website contains
information on EU trade policy, world trade, the WTO, and statements on
the Doha New Round.
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/menu-e.asp
The Department of Foreign Affairs and
International Trade (DFAIT), Government of Canada website contains information
relating to the environmental and social dimensions of trade, and introduces
a conceptual framework for analysing sustainability effects of trade.
http://www.dfid.gov.uk
The Department for International Development
(DFID) website contains publications and information looking at sustainable
livelihoods and trade related topics.
http://www.cec.org
The
North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) website
contains publications and papers related to trade and environment issues
and links to other relevant websites.
http://www.sice.oas.org
The SICE
(Foreign Trade Information System) website provides information relating
to trade issues, such as Intellectual Property Rights, Competition Policy
and Services, as well as providing links to other trade related sites.
International Organisations
http://www.oecd.org
The OECD website contains information
on sustainable development, indicators of sustainable development, and
trade and development.
http://www.unctad.org
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) website provides access to
publications and documents concerned with trade and development, as well
as documents from major conferences. The site also provides website links
to other agencies concerned with trade and development.
http://www.unep.ch/etu/etp/index.htm
The Economics
and Trade Unit of the United Nations Environment Programme is conducting
a programme of capacity building for trade impact assessment. The website
provides details of UNEP's Reference Manual for the Integrated Assessment
of Trade-Related Policies, and a policy paper on Integrated Assessment
for Achieving Sustainable Trade Policies.
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/
The UNSD website contains information
on indicators for sustainable development and information on trade and
sustainable development, including links to related web-sites.
http://www.worldbank.org
The World Bank website contains World
Bank working papers and other publications relating to sustainable development,
sustainable livelihoods and trade.
http://www.worldbank.org/trade/
This is the trade page from the World
Bank website and contains information on trade policy and the World Bank's
ongoing research into the economic modelling of trade.
http://www.wto.org
The WTO website contains information
relating to trade and development and explains the WTO's response to the
linkages between trade and sustainable development. The documents section includes the full text of all dispute body rulings and WTO legal texts.
NGOs
http://www.balancedtrade.panda.org
This is the area of the WWF website that
focuses on Sustainability Assessment (SA) of trade and investment policies.
The site provides information on assessment activities world-wide and
is particularly useful for organisations and individuals working on trade,
environment and development. It includes information on SA approaches,
case studies, WWF projects and links to other useful sites.
http://www.developmentgateway.org
The Development Gateway website contains
information on trade and development.
http://www.igtn.org
The International Gender and Trade Network website contains information
analysing the impact of trade on women and a women's agenda relative to
trade and investment.
http://www.ictsd.org
The International Centre
for Trade and Sustainable Development website contains information related
to trade, the environment and sustainable development. The site also provides
a weekly trade news digest (Bridges), providing weekly updates on news
and events.
http://www.iisd.org/trade/
The Trade section of the International Institute for Sustainable Development's web site is currently promoting Lessons Learned on Trade and Sustainable Development: Distilling Six Years of Research from the Trade Knowledge Network (TKN).
http://www.maketradefair.com
The make trade fair website set up by Oxfam International contains
Oxfam's new report (March 2002) "Rigged Rules and double standards:
trade globalisation and the threat against poverty" and contains
information on Fairtrade, labour standards, trade dumping and subsidies.
http://www.oxfam.org.uk
The Oxfam website provides publications on development and trade related
subjects as well as campaign information highlighting the dangers of WTO
Trade rules and policies.
http://www.twnside.org.sg
The Third
World Network is an independent non-profit international network of organisations
and individuals involved in issues relating to development, the Third
World and North- South issues. Their website contains reports, publications
and news pertaining to development, trade, economics, and the World Trade
Organisation.
http://www.wdm.org.uk
The
World Development Movement lobbies decision-makers to change the policies
that keep people poor, whilst researching and promoting positive alternatives.
Their website contains information relating to the WTO and the General
Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and provides an interesting alternative
viewpoint to that of the WTO and their supporters.
http://www.womensedge.org/trade/trade.htm
The Women's EDGE
Trade Program seeks to promote equitable international trade policies by
pressing for trade provisions that redress gender inequalities and create
opportunities for women and ensuring that women's interests are represented
at trade negotiating tables.
www.panda.org/resources/programmes/trade
The
World Wildlife Fund web site contains details of WWF's work relating to
SIA and trade and also includes links to other trade-related sites.
Academic and Other Research Institutes
http://www.gtap.agecon.purdue.edu/
The website for the Centre for Global
Trade Analysis, Purdue University contains information on GTAP model,
data bases, and modelling studies.
http://www.cgiar.org/index.html
The Consultative Group on International
Agricultural Research (CGIAR) website contains information on the impact
of trade on agriculture, development, and the environment.
http://www.field.org.uk/
The Website of the Foundation for International Environmental
Law and Development contains information on biodiverity, trade, environment,
investment and social development.
The Global Development And Environment Institute (G-DAE) website
provides information to Economic and community development and environmental
and social sustainability.
The Global Environment and Trade Study website provides information
and an online journal relating to trade, environment and development.
The Global
Trade Negotiations home page is ran by the Center for International Development
at Harvard University. The site provides information and resources relating
to the WTO and WTO policies and rules, as well as links to other relevant
sites.
http://www.iatp.org/
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy website contains
information relating to Trade, agriculture, global governance and the
environment.
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/pages/home.cfm
The Institute
for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) Trade Observatory site contains
information on Trade, Sustainable Development and the WTO. The Site also
carries up to the minute news pertaining to the WTO and other trade related
issues and provides links to other relevant sites.
http://www.iaia.org/
The International Association for Impact Assessment provides information
for the advancement of innovation, development and communication of best
practice in impact assessment, including information of Environmental
Impact Assessment (EIA).
http://www.ifpri.cgiar.org/
The International Food Policy Research
Institute (IFPRI) website contains information on trade, agriculture and
the WTO, and links to related web-sites.
http://www.iied.org/
The International Institute for Environment
and Development (IIED) website, contains information and research into
trade policies and the environment.
http://www.iisd.org/
The International Institute for Sustainable
Development (IISD) website contains information on sustainable development,
trade and the environment.
http://www.odi.org.uk
The website of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) contains information
on Trade, the environment and economics. The work of the ODI aims to analyse
the linkages between trade, and trade policy, and poverty and the interests
of developing countries in current negotiations in the WTO and between
the EU and developing countries.
http://www.sei.se/
The Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
website contains information on sustainable development and environment
and a bibliography of SEI publications on sustainable development.
http://www.envireform.utoronto.ca/
This is the website for the University of Toronto Envireform programme,
it contains information related to international trade and financial systems
and the natural environment. This work focuses on the social and environmental
impacts on Canadians of existing trade liberalisation through the World
Trade Organisation (WTO) and North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA),
and explores new strategies for regulation and risk assessment and sustainability
assessments of trade.
