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The Expert Deployment Mechanism for Trade and Development (EDM) is a seven-year (2018-2026) investment of $16.5 million by Global Affairs Canada (GAC) to support Canada’s developing country trading partners to undertake exploratory discussions and negotiate, implement, benefit from, and adapt to trade and investment agreements with Canada. EDM is managed by Cowater International (Cowater) in partnership with the Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC).
The country programming focus for EDM is determined by Canada’s trade agreement priorities with developing countries. Since 2018, these priorities have been defined as Canada’s developing country fellow Members in the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP); Canada’s bilateral trade negotiation objectives with respect to the Canada-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement, the Canada-Indonesia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), and the Canada-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement; Canada’s bilateral trade agreements with Colombia and Peru; and, Canada’s negotiation objectives for a prospective free trade agreement with Ecuador and in support of Canada’s FTA with Panama.
Within these GAC-designated country parameters, EDM’s demand-driven programming is determined by the trade negotiation and implementation priorities of the governments negotiating with Canada, their stakeholders outside of the trade and trade-related ministries (private sector and civil society organizations) and the ASEAN secretariat as a regional institution.
Click to download the full study: Indigenous Peoples and Trade Agreements: A Trade and Economic Cooperation Analysis and Proposed Good Practices.
