(The "policy coherence" agenda of international financial and trade institutions)

Since 2002 RBW has been researching and monitoring the intersection between trade and financial policies at global, regional and local levels. It seeks to promote alternative trade and financial policies on the basis of a paradigm that links such policies in the interest of development, human rights, gender equality and environmental goals.

In the context of such efforts, RBW coordinates a working group that brings together over 350 organizations from both trade and financial background, North and South. Its main goals are:

1. increase the effectiveness of trade and financial NGOs in achieving their respective advocacy agendas,
2. find points of synergy and
3. build a common, proactive advocacy platform to link trade and financial policies in ways supportive of enlarged national and local policy space for implementation of alternatives that promote development, gender, human rights and the environment.

It also has provided extensive capacity-building to civil society organizations and grassroots, as well as fostered dialogue and reflection on these issues by governments and intergovernmental bodies, as well as international organizations.

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