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WEDNESDAY, 15 NOVEMBER 2006 [Conference
Room 2] |
| 10:00
- 11:15 |
OPENING
AND PLENARY SESSION
Chair:
Mr
José Antonio Ocampo,
Under-Secretary General for
Economic and Social Affairs, Department
of Economic and Social Affairs
GUEST SPEAKERS
H.E.
Ms. Tiina Intelmann, Ambassador and Permanent
Representative of Estonia to the United Nations, Chair
of the Second Committee
Prof. Peter Townsend,
Townsend Centre for International Poverty
Research
Ms Wahu Kaara, Ecumenical Coordinator for the Millennium
Development Goals, All Africa Conference of Churches & Feminist Task Force
of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP)
[Conference Room 2] |
| 11:15
- 12:45 |
SESSION
1: REDUCING HUNGER AND EXTREME POVERTY
Moderator: Mr.
Prabhu Pingali, Director,
Agricultural and Development Economics Division, FAO
Ms. Rajul Pandya-Lorch,
Head, 2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture, and the Environment
Initiative, and Chief of Staff, Director General's Office,
International Food Policy Research Institute
Mr. David Beckmann, President, Bread
for the World
Mr. Roberto
Bissio,
Executive Director, Third World Institute;
Coordinator, Social Watch
[Conference Room 2] |
SPECIAL
EVENTS
13:30 - 14:45
|
ON
OVERCOMING POVERTY TRAPS
Moderator: Mr. Johan
Scholvinck, Director,
Division for Social Policy and Development, DESA
Prof.
Stephen C. Smith, Professor of Economics
and International Affairs, Director, Research Program
in Poverty, Development and Globalization, George
Washington University
Ms. Rabeya Yasmin, Program
Co-ordinator, BRAC, Bangladesh
Ms.Chinwe Effiong, Regional
Director, East and Anglophone W. Africa, Africare
[Conference Room 2] |
| 13:30
- 14:45 |
ON
GOOD PRACTICES IN POVERTY ERADICATION INITIATIVES
Moderator: Mr. Roberto Bissio, Executive
Director, Third World Institute; Coordinator, Social Watch
Ms. Solveig Buhl, Social
Development Advisor, GTZ
Ms. Cecile Reinhart, ATD 4th World;
Co-founder, Croisement de Savoirs
Ms. Tracy Dolan,
Child Participation Adviser, Christian Children's Fund
[Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium] |
| 15:00
- 16:30 |
SESSION
2: ELIMINATING CHILD POVERTY AND BREAKING THE
INTERGENERATIONAL CYCLE OF DISADVANTAGE
Moderator: Ms
Elizabeth Gibbons, Chief, Global Policy, Division
of
Policy and Planning, UNICEF
Prof. Peter Townsend, Townsend Centre for
International Poverty
Research
Prof. David Gordon, University
of Bristol and Townsend Centre for International Poverty
Research
Ms. Jo Maher, HelpAge International
Prof. Michael Samson, Economic
Policy Research Institute, Cape Town
[Conference Room 2] |
| 16:30:18:00 |
SESSION
3: BUILDING PRODUCTIVE CAPACITIES
AND FACILITATING ACCESS TO FINANCIAL RESOURCES
Moderator: Mr.
Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Assistant-Secretary
General for Economic Development, DESA
Mr. Charles
Gore,
Chief for Research and Policy
Analysis, Division for Africa, Least Developed Countries
and Special Programs, UNCTAD
Mr. Augusto de la Torre,
Senior Regional Financial Sector Advisor
Latin America & the Caribbean, World Bank
Mr. Kadmiel Wekwete, Director,
United Nations Capital Development Fund, Local Governance
Unit
[Conference Room 2] |
THURSDAY, 16 NOVEMBER 2006 [Conference
Room 2]
|
| 10:00
- 11:20 |
SESSION
4: EMPOWERMENT
OF WOMEN: ACCESS TO ASSETS
Moderator: Ms.
Caren A. Grown, Senior
Scholar and Co-director of the Gender
Equality and the Economy program, The Levy Economics
Institute
Ms.
Haoua Dia MP,
President Senegalese Women's Council
Ms. Jan Peterson,
Chair, Huairou Commission and Member, High-Level
Commission on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor
Prof. Cheryl Doss,
Professor of Economics, Yale University
[Conference Room 2] |
| 11:20
- 12:45 |
SESSION
5: MAINSTREAMING DECENT WORK INTO POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES
Moderator: Mr.
Riswanul Islam, Director, Economic and
Labour Markets Analysis Department, ILO
Prof. Martha Chen, Harvard
University
Mr. Claude Akpokavie, ILO
Bureau for Workers' Activities
Dr. Ladislaus Columban Komba,
Permanent Secretary of Labour, Tanzania
[Conference Room 2] |
SPECIAL
EVENTS
13:30 - 14:45
|
ON
THE MILLENNIUM VILLAGES PROJECT
Moderator: Mr.
Johan Scholvinck,
Director, Division for Social Policy and Development, DESA
Prof. Pedro Sanchez,
Director, Millennium Villages Project, Director, Center for
Tropical Agriculture and the Rural Environment, The Earth Institute,
Columbia University
Dr. Patrick Mutuo,
Science Coordinator, Millennium Villages Project
[Conference Room 2]
|
| 13:30
- 14:45 |
ON
RIGHTS, PARTICIPATION AND POVERTY ERADICATION
Moderator: Ms.
Sharon Altendorf, PBVM, International Presentation
Association of the Sisters of the Presentation
Mr. Quentin Wodon, Lead Poverty Specialist for Africa, World Bank
Dr. Iulia-Antoanella Motoc, Member,
United Nations Sub-Commission on Promotion
and Protection of Human Rights
Mr. Jacques
Petidor, Informal education
technician, Ministry of Education, Haiti
[Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium] |
| 15:00
- 16:20 |
SESSION
6A: BREAKING THE CYCLE OF POVERTY: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
OF LDCS
Moderator: Mr. Anwarul K. Chowdhury, Under-Secretary-General
and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries,
Landlocked and Developing Countries and Small Island States
(UN-OHRLLS)
H.E. Mr. Joe Robert Pemagbi, Ambassador
and Permanent Representative of the Republic of Sierra Leone
to the United Nations
H.E. Mr. Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury,
Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to
the United Nations
Mr. Charles Gore, Chief for Research
and Policy Analysis, Division for Africa, Least Developed
Countries and Special Programs, UNCTAD
[Dag Hammarskjöld
Auditorium] |
| 15:00
- 16:20 |
SESSION
6B: WORKING TOGETHER, BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS
Moderator: Mr. Amir Dossal,
Executive Director, United Nations Fund for International
Partnerships (UNFIP)
Mr. Bharat Wakhlu, President,
Tata Inc., US
Ms Wahu Kaara,
Ecumenical Coordinator for the Millennium
Development Goals, All Africa Conference
of Churches & Feminist Task Force of
the Global Call to Action Against
Poverty (GCAP)
Ms. Stefania
Marcone,
Director, International Relations Office, Legacoop
[Conference Room
2] |
| 16:20
- 17:40
|
SESSION
7: THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX, INNOVATIVE APPROACHES
Moderator: Mr.
Jomo Kwame Sundaram,
Assistant-Secretary General for Economic Development,
DESA
Prof. Nicholas Negroponte,
Founder, One Laptop per Child
Prof. Iqbal Quadir, Founder Director,
Program in Developmental Entrepreneurship, MIT
Mr. Patrick Mulvany, Senior
Policy Adviser, Practical
Action
[Conference Room 2]
|
| 17:45
- 18:00 |
CLOSING
PLENARY SESSION
Chair: H.E. Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa,
President, General Assembly
Mr.
Jomo Kwame Sundaram,
Assistant-Secretary General for Economic Development,
DESA
[Conference Room 2] |
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