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Trade Knowledge Network: Fostering Sustainable Development

The Trade Knowledge Network aims to foster long-term capacity in partner-country research institutions, governments, and the wider policy community to address the complex issues of trade and sustainable development. Through knowledge networks and partnerships, it facilitates the exchange of information and best practices on trade and sustainable development globally.

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Trade Knowledge Network: Fostering Sustainable Development

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  1. www.tradeknowledgenetwork.net

  2. The Goal of the Trade Knowledge Network • To foster long-term capacity to address the complex issues of trade and sustainable development in partner-country research institutions, governments and the wider policy community, including business, academia and environment and development NGOs.

  3. Knowledge Networks • Consist of groups of expert institutions working together on a common concern, strengthening each others’ research and communications capacity, sharing knowledge bases and developing solutions that are made available for use by others outside the network.

  4. TKN Partner Institutions • Argentina: Centro de Investigationes para la Transformación (CENIT) • Bangladesh: North-South University (NSU), The World Conservation Union (IUCN) • Chile: Recursos e Investigacisn para el Desarrollo Sustentable(RIDES) • China: Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation (CAITEC) • Costa Rica: International Centre of Economic Policy for Sustainable Development (CINPE) • Pakistan: Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) • South Africa: Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS) • Vietnam: Ministry of Fisheries (MOFI)/ Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (MOSTE)/ The World Conservation Union (IUCN)

  5. Trade Knowledge Network utilizes three inter-related objectives to achieve its goal • High quality objective, in-country and thematic research to increase awareness, knowledge and understanding of the sustainable development dimensions of trade; • policy workshops, and other fora, to inform and promote dialogue among policy-makers and stakeholders in TKN countries as a means incorporate sustainable development into trade policy • To facilitate through the Trade Knowledge Network, its partners, and among broader audiences globally, exchange of information, best policy and practice on trade and sustainable development.

  6. Services Liberalization in Electricity and Tourism in South Africa Research Topics Have Included:

  7. Shrimp aquaculture practice in Vietnam and Phyto-sanitary standards for shrimp in Bangladesh

  8. Opportunities for sustainable agriculture and market access issues

  9. Trade Knowledge Networkwww.tradeknowledgenetwork.net • Is managed collaboratively by the International Institute for Sustainable Development and the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development. • TKN is supported by the Rockefeller Foundation; The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs; International Development Research Centre (IDRC); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). The Trade Knowledge Network is

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