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Thursday, 31 May 2001 18:47
The APRN Board of Convenors held its first meeting since last year's election of officers that put them in-charge of the general direction of the network. The meeting was convened to finalize the plans for 2001, which include the program for the Sydney conference. The one-day meeting was held in Yogyakarta in Indonesia on February 25.

At the conference in Jakarta in August last year, APRN had received proposals from members and non-members for coordinated activities including research and training. The long list of proposals had been circulated to the members for comments and this resulted to rationalized plans for implementation.

The BOC approved the following activities for the year 2001, including tentative venue and date.
  • Workshop on the WTO, Indonesia, February
  • Conference on Japanese ODA and Aid Conditionalities, Bangkok or Manila, May
  • Workshop on the Impact of WTO on Rural Women with advocacy component, India, June
  • WTO-AoA Strategy workshop, Bangkok, July
  • Training on Communication for Advocacy for South Asians, Bangladesh, August
  • 3rd Annual APRN Conference, Sydney, September 26-29
Under the APRN's small research grant program, the BOC approved research proposals of four APRN members. ‚ These researches include The Neo-liberal Agenda and the Pacific (with focus on TNCs) proposed by Gatt-Watchdog (New Zealand); ‚ Research on Foreign Investments in Laos: Human, Social and Environmental Impact, proposed by Documentation for Action Groups in Asia, Hongkong; Impact of Trade Liberalization on Small Farmers and Rural Communities (With case studies of four cash crops-- rice, maize, longan and onion), proposed by Thai NGO Coordinating Committee (NGO-COD), Thailand; and Human Resource Management Practices in Export Zone TNCs Hiring Policies, proposed by Ecumenical Institute for Labor Research and Education (EILER), Philippines.

The BOC officers who attended the meeting were Tony Tujan on IBON, Mika Iba of NESSFE, Kavaljit Singh of PIRG, T. Rajamoorthy of TWN and Gilbert Sape of IBON. The BOC also invited James Goodman of Aidwatch and heads the preparatory committee of the Sydney conference in September.
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