OPERATIONAL ACTIVITIES SEGMENT OF ECOSOC
14 July - 18 JULY 2011
Geneva
STATEMENTS
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Thursday, 14 July
Opening
- H.E. Gonzalo Gutiérrez Reinel, Vice-President, ECOSOC “Maintaining the momentum in furthering system-wide coherence of the United Nations development system”
- Thomas Stelzer, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-agency Affairs, UNDESA “The need for fresh thinking on operational activities for development of the United Nations system”
Panel discussion
2012 Quadrennial Comprehensive Policy Review of the General Assembly “What are the expectations: issues, process and outcome?” (Informal summary)Chair: H.E. Gonzalo Gutiérrez Reinel, Vice-President, ECOSOC
Moderator: Jane Stewart, ILO Special Representative to the UN and Director, ILO Office for the UN, New York
Panellists:
- Edward Sambili, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of State for Planning, National Development and Vision 2030, Kenya
- H.E. Thomas Gass, Ambassador of Switzerland to Nepal, facilitator of 2007 triennial comprehensive policy review of the GA
- Susan McDade, UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative, Uruguay
Friday, 15 July
Dialogue with Executive Heads of UN Funds and Programmes:
“Looking to the future of operational activities for development of Funds
and Programmes: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats” (Informal summary)Moderator: H.E. Gonzalo Gutiérrez Reinel, Vice-President, ECOSOC
Panellists:
- Helen Clark, Administrator, UNDP
- Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director, UN Women
- Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director, UNFPA
- Martin Mogwanja, Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF
- Ramiro Lopez da Silva, Deputy Executive Director, WFP
Special update
“Progress of independent evaluation of delivering-as-one” (Informal summary)Chair: H.E. Gonzalo Gutiérrez Reinel, Vice-President, ECOSOC
Presenter: Lucien Back, Chief of the Secretariat to the Independent
Evaluation of Delivering-as-One, UNDESAPanel discussion (Informal Summary)
“Strengthening the leadership of the UN Resident Coordinator: role of
accountability frameworks, resources and results reporting”Chair: H.E. Gonzalo Gutiérrez Reinel, Vice-President, ECOSOC
Moderator: Helen Clark, Administrator, UNDP
Branislav Lysak, Alternate Head of delegation of Slovakia
Panellists:
- Jan Beagle, Deputy Executive Director, UNAIDS; Co-chair, UNDG
Working Group on Resident Coordinator System Issues- James Rawley, UN Resident Coordinator, Egypt
- Robert Piper, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, Nepal
Monday, 18 July
Special dialogue
“How to define the concept of “critical mass” of core resources?”Chair: H.E. Gonzalo Gutiérrez Reinel, Vice-President, ECOSOC
Moderator: Douglas Lindores, International expert on development cooperation, former Senior-Vice President, Canadian International Development Agency
Panellists:
- Christian Panneels, Head of Division, Multilateral and EU Programmes, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Belgium
- Sigrid Kaag, UN Assistant Secretary-General and Assistant Administrator of the Partnerships Bureau, UNDP
- Afshan Khan, Director, Public Sector Alliances and Resource Mobilization Office, UNICEF
General debate:
- G77
- EU
- Nepal
- CANZ
- Russian Federation
- Switzerland
- Mexico
- Norway
- Belarus (In Russian Not available)
- US
- India
- Cuba
- Colombia
- Ukraine
- Namibia
- Pakistan
- Brazil
- China
- Peru
- FAO
Summary of key messages from the Operational Activities Segment and concluding remarks
H.E. Gonzalo Gutiérrez Reinel, Vice-President, ECOSOC
Substantive session 2011