The workshop recognised the focus on economic diplomacy evident under the Zuma's Administration, and that there was growing involvement of non-state actors in the conduct of foreign policy. It was however cautioned that the country's involvement under the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) arrangement was overstretched by a large number of sector specific committees created. It was suggested that in order for the country to have impact in the forum, it could perhaps focus on specific sectors like child labour, trafficking, disarmament.