The Centre for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD) is a not-for-profit, membership-based think-tank, working on economic policy issues. The organization was established in 1999, as the Zambia Trade Network (this was an idea developed by the Zambia Association for Research and Development-ZARD) primarily to respond to emerging issues of gender and trade. The organization was registered in December 2004 as the Civil Society Trade Network of Zambia (CSTNZ) but later rebranded in 2009 from a trade advocacy network to an economic think tank on trade and development called the Centre for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD). Further, the change implied that the organization needed to develop its internal analytical and policy research capacities on trade and taxation to remain relevant to effective trade and tax policy formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. CTPD presently has a membership of 16 local Non-Governmental Organization’s (NGOs) and individual members.