• Introduction
• Who should attend?
• Objectives
• Methodology
• Medium of instructions
• Contents
• Resource person
• Deadline for registration
• Registration fee
• Discount
• Withdrawal requests
• Cancellation/postponement
• Award of certificates
• Time
• Further information
• Registration form

Introduction
Economic globalisation has become a powerful force that impacts ordinary women and men’s livelihood. International statements and grassroots level evidence underscore the differential impact of economic globalisation upon men and women’s lives However, accounts of such differential effects are rarely found for the Pakistani context, and statistics do not tell women and men’s differing stories even though some figures indicate the disparities, e.g., 16% of Pakistani women have access to paid employment as compared to 71% of men. These women’s average income is only a third of those of their male counterparts. How are the differences in men and women’s access to livelihood resources in Pakistan influenced by the opening up of global markets for goods, services, and investment?

Given the importance of understanding the differential impacts and their implications for ordinary Pakistanis, SDPI is offering a two-day training workshop on the women, men and economic globalisation. This workshop focuses on the impact of the various agreements for the liberalisation of trade in goods and services under the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on gender equality and women’s empowerment.

What are the current challenges for the interface between gender and globalisation in Pakistan? The training workshop will specifically examine the agreements on textiles and clothing, and on agriculture. In manufacturing, the phasing-out of the import quota system under the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC) from January 2005 will further liberalise international trade in textiles and clothing. This change will have a disproportionate impact on women who are strongly represented in the Pakistani garment production.

Liberalisation of agricultural trade under the WTO’s Agreement on Agriculture is also to be fully implemented in Pakistan. It involves the reduction in subsidies for seeds and fertilisers. Given the strong representation of women farmers in growing food crops for local markets, their sources of income and food security more generally are at stake.

Who should attend?
Representatives of community-based organisations, government bodies, and business community.

Objectives

• to sensitise about the impact of economic globalisation on gender (in-) equality in general and in Pakistan in particular;
• to provide tools for gender analysis of economic globalisation;
• to elicit policy contributions ensuring that globalisation does not widen gender inequality but rather supports women’s empowerment.

Methodology
The workshop will combine:

• Formal presentations by the trainer, with
• Interactive exercises (case studies, policy planning) with a view to developing practical steps for gender equality and women’s empowerment under economic globalisation.

Medium of instructions
English will be the medium of instruction for this workshop.

Contents

• Prelude (warming up, introduction of topic, objectives, schedule, participants)
• Gender matters in globalisation! (examples of gender-differentiated impact of economic globalisation)
• Our toolbox (introduction and exemplary application of an analytical tool for the analysis of gender dimensions in economic globalisation)
• Gender structures adjustment I (examples of and conclusions from gendered experience of structural adjustment programmes (SAPs), group work on case studies)
• Gender structures adjustment II (presentation of group work)
• The gendered face of the World Trade Organisation (potential impact of the multilateral trading system on gender equality)
• Women garment workers in the post quota era (case study on the impact of the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC) on gendered employment in Pakistan from SDPI research)
• If I were the Minister of Commerce… (group work on policy analysis and planning)

Resource person
Dr. Karin Astrid Siegmann earned her Ph.D. in agricultural economics from the University of Bonn, Germany. A Master in Economics from the University of Cologne, Germany, her specialisations are the effects of globalisation on the various dimensions of gender equality. Research interests include feminist, development, and labour economics as well as innovative economics methodology. She has implemented empirical research in countries as diverse as Bangladesh, Niger and Indonesia. Before joining SDPI, she worked as a junior fellow at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn, Germany, and at the Südwind Institute for Economics and Ecumenism in Siegburg, Germany. There, her focus was the sustainability of multinational corporations’ activities as well as the effects of international financial flows on development.

Deadline for registration
Completed Registration forms should reach the Program Support Officer via fax or mail latest by 08 September 2006. The institute will confirm registration upon receipt of fee by a return fax. Please use a separate registration form for each nominee. Please note that seats are limited and applicants will be registered on a first come, first served basis. Registration will close if all the seats are taken up before the last date.

Registration fee
The training workshop is free of cost.

Discount
Nominees of the PEP partner organizations are exempt from registration fee.

25% discount is available to the following:

• SDPI members
• HRDN members on each nomination (HRDN members should send their nominations through HRDN secretariat)
• PEP partners on each nomination
• Students registering through their institutions
• Other organizations registering 2 or more persons

Withdrawal requests will be processed as under:

10 or more days before workshop	Full refund
Nine to four days before workshop	75 percent refund
Three days before workshop	50 percent refund
Two or less days before workshop	No refund

Cancellation/postponement
SDPI reserves the right to cancel or postpone the workshop if circumstances require. In such an event, SDPI will ensure that registered participants are informed as soon as possible. SDPI will also refund registration fees according to our refund procedures.

Award of certificates

• Trainees successfully completing 85 percent of the instructional sessions will be awarded completion certificates.
• Trainees who for genuine reasons are unable of complete 85 percent attendance but attend 60 to 84 percent instructional sessions will be given partial attendance certificates.
• Trainees attending less than 60 percent of instructional sessions will be given letters specifying the sessions that they attended.

Time
9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (daily)

Further information
For further details, please contact Program Support Officer, SDPI at Tel. 92-51-2278134 or fax: 92-51-2278135.

Registration form
View Registration Form.