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From Down-trading to Upgrading: Reducing Poverty in Latin America Using a Value Chain Approach

9 December 2009 09:00-13:30 - Seminar, Washington, DC

Recent trade agreements in Latin America overlook the realities faced by many women (Source: kool_skatkat, Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/kool_skatkat/)

  • In recent years, Latin America has moved rapidly towards liberalising trade, both in the region and internationally. This has stimulated active debate on the merits of a more open trading regime. Getting lost in this polarised debate is an understanding of the impact of these changes on marginalised groups, particularly the rural poor. This event explored how value chain analysis (VCA) can, in a practical way, help the rural poor participate gainfully in local, regional and global trade.

    The seminar was comprised of several keynote addresses, panel discussions and small group working sessions.

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    Chair:
    Randall Kemper - Director, The Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE)
     
    Speakers:
    Jeanne Downing - USAID Microenterprise Development
    Jonathan Mitchell - Director of Programmes, Rural Policy and Governance Group, ODI
    Christopher Coles - Research Officer, ODI
    Francisco Perez - Senior Researcher, Nitlapan
    Roberto Telleria - Programme Leader, Trade and Development, GNTP
    Others, TBC

     

  • An ODI, Aspen Institute - Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) and Root Change seminar.

8:30 am – 9: 00 am

Registration / Coffee

9:00 am – 9:20 am

Welcome, Roundtable Objectives and Agenda with Randall Kempner (ANDE), Jeff Knezovich (ODI) and Evan Bloom (Root Change)

9:20 am – 9:45 am

Tapping Our Collective Intelligence: Value Chain Opinionaire

9:45 am – 10:30 am

Trading Up: How a Value Chain Approach Can Benefit the Rural Poor

Presentations by Jeanne Downing (USAID Microenterprise Development), Jonathan Mitchell and Christopher Coles (Oversees Development Institute)

Moderated by Guillermo Rivero of Root Change

BREAK

10:45 am – 11:20 am

Upgrading along Value Chains: Cases from Latin America

Presentations from Francisco Perez and Roberto Telleria

Moderated by Evan Bloom of Root Change

11:20 am – 12:15pm

Tapping Our Collective Intelligence: Value Chain Upgrading Strategies

Facilitated small group discussion

12:15pm – 12:30 pm

Service Delivery Value Chains

Presented by Evan Bloom of Root Change

12:30 pm – 12:45 pm

Network Analysis and Value Chains

12:45 pm – 1:00 pm

Concluding Remarks

1:00 pm

Lunch