8h30 - 9h00 Registering of participants

9h00 - 9h30 Welcome Remarks by Organisers

Round Table 1. Setting the stage

Chair: H.E. Amina Chawahir MOHAMED, Ambassador, Permanent Mission of Kenya to the UN at Geneva (Kenya)

9h30 - 10h45 Dr. Adronico Oduogo ADEDE: "The Political Economy of the TRIPS Agreement. Origins and History of Negotiations".

Dr. John MUGABE, African Centre for Technology Study (ACTS), (Kenya): "The Relation between the TRIPS Agreement and Transfer of Biotechnology"

Mr. Robert J.L. LETTINGTON, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (UK/Burundi) "The FAO International Undertaking Negotiations and Related Parallel Tracks.

H.E. Boniface Guwa CHIDYAUSIKU, Permanent Mission of Zimbabwe to the WTO (Zimbabwe). "The review of TRIPS: The Geneva Negotiations on Patents on Life Forms, Micro-organisms, Plant Varieties, Traditional Knowledge and Medicines"

10h30 - 13h00 Open Dialogue

13h00 - 14h30 Lunch

Round Table 2. Regional and National Considerations

14h30 - 15h30 Dr. Francis Mangeni (Uganda), ACTS: "The implementation of TRIPS in Africa"

Prof. Johnson A. EKPERE, University of Ibadan (Nigeria): "The OAU model law on community rights and access to genetic resources"

Ms. Rosemary WOLSON, University of Cape Town (South Africa) "South Africa's Position in the TRIPS Review and Associated Domestic Legislative Reforms"

Dr. James OTIENO-ODEK, University of Nairobi (Kenya) "Towards TRIPs Compliance: Kenya's Legislative Reforms"

Mr. Cristián ESPINOSA, Permanent Mission of Ecuador to the WTO and the UN: ¨The implementation of TRIPS in small economies¨

15h30 - 18h00 Open Dialogue

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Chair: Mr. Ricardo MELENDEZ, Executive Director, ICTSD

Round Table 3. Trade, Biological Resources and Traditional Knowledge

9h00 - 10h30 Dr. Sophia KERWEGI APIO, Natural Chemotherapeutics Research Laboratory (MOH) (Uganda): "Implications of the TRIPS Agreement for the Commercialisation of Africa's Genetic Resources."

Mr. Gus LE BRETON, Southern Alliance for Indigenous Resources (SAFIRE), (Zimbabwe): "Trade in Biological Resources in Southern Africa"

Mr. Mwananyanda Mbikusita LEWANIKA, National Institute for Scientific and Industrial Research (Zambia): "What Protection for Traditional Knowledge?"

10h30 - 11h00 Coffee/Tea

11h00 - 13h00 Open Dialogue

Mr. Edward CHISANGA, Permanent Mission of Zambia to the UN (Zambia): "TRIPS and the future of WTO negotiations, an LDC perspective on Doha"

13h00 - 15h00 Lunch

Round Table 4. Trade, IPRs and Public Health in Southern Africa

15h00 - 15h45 Mr. Chris OUMA, Action Aid (Kenya): "Essential Drugs and Public Health Safeguards under TRIPs"

Ms. Michaela FIGUERA, Ministry of Environment and Tourism (Namibia): "Essential Drugs and IPRs - the Namibian Experience"

Donna KABATESI, Traditional and Modern Health Practitioners Together Against AIDS (THETA): "TRIPS, Essential Drugs and Traditional Medicine"

15h45 - 17h15 Open Dialogue

17h15 - 17h30 Coffee/Tea

17h30 - 18h00 Emerging Issues and Next Steps

18h00 - 18h30 Closing Remarks by organisers