Lisez aussi le compte-rendu fait par Alain Lipietz de cette 5ème rencontre annuelle du Réseau interparlementaire de la Banque Mondiale.
The Conference will take place at the :
SENATE
Palais du Luxembourg
15 ter, rue de Vaugirard
75006 Paris
France
NOTE : DRAFT PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Saturday, February 14
6:00-7:30 pm
Regional Working Sessions (Hotel Lutetia)
Parliamentarians will meet separately in six breakout groups according to region for informal discussions on regional cooperation among MPs, interaction with the World Bank and other multilateral organizations, and development policies. The objectives are to present PNoWB’s mission and activities, and to identify key topics for discussion at the sessions on the following day with the World Bank president and the IMF deputy managing director. The discussion will be facilitated by a parliamentarian from the region.
AFRICA (Room Babylone)
Discussion led by Musikari Kombo,MP, Minister of Planning, Kenya
MIDDLE EAST and NORTH AFRICA (Room Rive Gauche)
Discussion led by Basil Fuleihan, MP, Lebanon
EASTERN EUROPE and CENTRAL ASIA (Room Rive Droite)
Discussion led by Evgeni Kirilov, MP, Bulgaria
SOUTH and EAST ASIA (Room Boucicaut)
Discussion led by Suresh Keswani, India, PNoWB Associate Board member
LATIN AMERICA and CARIBBEAN (Room Foyer)
Discussion led by Alfredo Atanasof, MP, Argentina
DONOR COUNTRIES (DAC MEMBERS) (Room Boucicaut 2)
Discussion led by Kimmo Kiljunen, MP, Finland
8:00 pm WELCOMING DINNER (Hotel Lutetia)
SPEECHES :
One Year in the Life of Parliaments :
How Parliaments Influence Global Policy
Welcome address :
Bert Koenders,MP, the Netherlands, and Chair, PNoWB
Speakers :
Suresh Prabhu, MP, India
Norbert Mao,MP, Uganda, and chair PNoWB East Africa chapter
Wakako Hironaka, MP, Japan
Sunday, February 15
8:15 am Buses leave Hotel Lutetia for the Senate
8:30 am-9:30 am Private visit of the BotticelliExhibit at the Musée du Luxembourg (Senate Building)
9:45 am-11:00 am SERIES OF PARALLEL WORKSHOPS
Room Clemenceau (Plenary)
Eastern Europe and Central Asia : How Wide is ‘Wider Europe’ ?
Chair : George Tsereteli, MP, Georgia
Speakers :
Erik Berglöf, Director, Stockholm School of Economics
Ksenia Yudaeva, Director for Policy Studies, Center for Economic
and Financial Research, Moscow
xxx, European Union
Room 216
Building Alliances for Change : Parliamentarians, Multilateral
Organizations and Civil Society Organizations as Advocates for
Development
Chair : Tony Worthington, MP, United Kingdom
Speakers :
Peter Eigen, Chairman, Transparency International
Jonathan Murphy, Global Task Manager, Parliamentarians’
Implementation Watch , PNoWB
Algresia Akwi-Ogojo*, Regional Director, ActionAid Africa
Room 213
Strengthening the Investment Climate : The Role of Parliamentarians
Chair : Tioulong Saumura, MP, Cambodia
Speakers :
Michael Klein, Vice President and Chief Economist, International
Finance Corporation, World Bank Group
xxx, private sector
xxx, civil society
11:15 am-12:30 pm SERIES OF PARALLEL WorkSHOPS
Room Clemenceau (Plenary)
Getting 121 Million Children in School : How Parliamentarians Can
Contribute to Achieving Education For All
Chair : Raquel Teixeira,MP, Brazil
Speakers : Ruth Kagia, Director for Education, World Bank
Anne Jellema, Campaign Manager, Global Campaign for Education
Gene Sperling, Director, Center on Universal Education, Council on
Foreign Relations
Room 216
Working with the World Bank on Operations : a Dialogue with Country
Directors on the Politics of Reform and the Role of Parliamentarians
Chair : Belinda Bidwell, MP, Gambia
Speakers :
Makhtar Diop, Country Director for Kenya, World Bank
Mahmood A. Ayub, Country Director for Egypt, Yemen and Djibouti,
World Bank
Paul D. Mitchell, Manager, Development Communications, World
Bank
Orsalia Kalantzopoulos, Country Director for South Eastern Europe,
World Bank
Room 213
Plugging the Global Accountability Gap : How to Further Democratize
Multilateral Organizations
Chair : Alain Destexhe, MP, Belgium
Speakers :
Thomas A. Bernes,Executive Secretary, Development Committee
Tom C. Dawson, Director, External Relations, IMF
Alex Wilks, Coordinator, Bretton Woods Project
Room Boffrand
12:45 pm-2:15 pm LUNCH
Guest Speaker :
Christophe Benn, Director of External Relations, The Global Fund to
Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Room Clemenceau (Plenary)
2:30 pm-2:45pm OPENING SESSION
Welcoming Addresses :
Jacques Pelletier, Senator, France
Bert Koenders, MP, the Netherlands, and Chair, PNoWB
Pierre Duquesne, Executive Director for France, World Bank & IMF
2:45 pm-4:15 pm FIRST SESSION
90 minutes with the President of the World Bank
James D. Wolfensohn,President, World Bank Group
Chaired by : Bert Koenders, MP, the Netherlands, and Chair, PNoWB
Followed by discussion
4:15 pm-4:45 pm COFFEE BREAK
4:45 pm-5:45 pm SECOND SESSION
Question Time with the IMF
KEYNOTE SPEAKER :
Agustín Carstens, Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
Chaired by : Norbert Mao, MP, Uganda
Followed by discussion
5:45 pm-7:00 pm THIRD SESSION
International Trade : Restarting the Doha Round. The Role of Parliamentarians
Chair : xxx, MP
Speaker :
Franz Fischler, Commissioner for Agriculture, European Union
Hugh Bayley, MP, United Kingdom
7:00-7:30 pm Guided Tour of the Palais du Luxembourg (Senate) Monday, February 16
Hotel Lutetia
7:45 am-8:45 am Breakfast Meetings
PNOWB HIV/AIDS WORKING GROUP : MOBILIZING PARLIAMENTARY ACTION(Room Rive Gauche)
Organized by Dorothy Hyuha MP, Uganda, Co-Chair PNoWB HIV/Aids Committee
Engaging in the PNoWB(Room Foyer)
Organized by PNoWB Board Members
MEETING WITH WORLD SOCIAL FORUM REPRESENTATIVES
(Room Rive Droite)
Organized by Patrice Barrat, Brigde Initiative
CONSULTATION ON IMF’S PROGRAM TO ENGAGE PARLIAMENTARIANS(Room Boucicaut)
Organized by Tom C. Dawson, Director, External Relations, IMF
STRENGTHENING PARLIAMENTARY CAPACITY : THE WORLD BANK INSTITUTE’S PROGRAM(Room Boucicaut 2)
Organized by Rick Stapenhurst, Specialist, WBI
The CGIAR Alliance : Mobilizing Science For Development(Room Babylone)
Organized by Salah Brahimi, CGIAR
9:00 am Buses leave Hotel Lutetia for the Senate
Room Clemenceau (Plenary)
FOURTH SESSION
9:15 am- 10:30 am Development Policies That Work : How Donor Countries
Can Deliver on Their Commitments. The Role of Parliamentarians
Chair : Paul Boateng, MP, Chief Secretary, Treasury Department, United Kingdom
Speakers :
US official*, on the Millennium Challenge Account
Berndt Ekholm, MP, Sweden, on Sweden’s new integrated development policy
Richard Manning, Chair, OECD’s Development Assistance Committee
Hideki Wakabayashi, MP, Japan
Room Clemenceau Plenary)
10:30 am-11:00 am
Guest Speaker :
Francis Mer,Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry, France
11:15 am -12:30 pm SERIES OF PARALLEL WORKSHOPS
Room Clemenceau (Plenary)
Sub-Saharan Africa : NEPAD and the Role of Parliamentarians
Chair : Joe Clark, MP, former Prime Minister, Canada
Speakers :
Baffour Agyeman Duah, Center for Democratic Development
(CDD), Ghana
Peter Ondeng, CEO, NEPAD Kenya Secretariat
Haoua Dia Thiam, MP, Senegal
Room 216
The Middle East and North Africa : the Challenge of Governance and
Development
Chair : Hossam Badrawi,MP, Egypt
Speakers :
Christiaan Poortman, Vice President, Middle East and North Africa,
World Bank
Elissar Sarrouh, Senior Policy Advisor, UNDP Regional Bureau for
Arab States
Room 213
Beyond Macroeconomic Stability : Launching Pro-Poor Sustainable Growth
Chair : Paul Helminger, MP, Luxembourg
Speakers :
Sonia Brunschwig, Senior Economist, European office, IMF
Hina Rabbani Khar, MP, Pakistan
Room Boffrand
12:45 pm-1:45 pm LUNCH
Hosted by the Senate of France
Welcome address by Philippe Marini, Senator, France
Room Clemenceau (Plenary)
2:00 pm-2:30 pm
Chair : Kimmo Kiljunen, MP, Finland
Guest Speaker :
François Bourguignon, Chief Economist, Senior Vice President,
World Bank
Room Clemenceau (Plenary)
Fifth Session
2:30 pm-3:45 pm Achieving the Millennium Development Goals : How to Scale Up Development on the Ground. The Role of Parliamentarians
Chair : Luis Solari, MP, former Prime Minister, Peru
Speakers :
Bambang Bintoro, Deputy Minister, Indonesia, on the KDP community-driven project
Dorothy Hyuha, MP, Uganda, on Uganda’s fight against HIV/AIDS
Eveline Herfkens, UN Secretary General’s Executive Coordinator for the Millennium Development Goals Campaign
Room Clemenceau (Plenary)
Sixth Session
3:45 pm-5:00 pm Activities and Organization of the PNoWB
Field Visit Program
Parliamentarians’ Implementation Watch
Activities for World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings
Policy Dialogues
Organizational Matters and Progress Report
Speakers :
Bert Koenders,MP, the Netherlands, and Chair, PNoWB
Jean-Christophe Bas,Development Policy Dialogue Manager,
World Bank
5:00 pm-5:30 pm Closing Session
Concluding remarks :
Bert Koenders,MP, the Netherlands,Chair, PNoWB
Ian Goldin, Vice President, External Affairs and Communications, World Bank
Keynote Speaker :
Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva, President, Brazil, by direct video link from Brasilia
END of CONFERENCE
*/ Speaker to be Confirmed
TRANSLATION
Simultaneous translation in English, French and Russian in sessions taking place in the plenary room
Room Clemenceau (Plenary)
Logistical Information
The Conference will take place at the :
SÉNATE : Palais du Luxembourg, 15 ter, rue de Vaugirard, 75006 Paris, France
The participation of most MPs coming from recipient countries is sponsored by the French Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry