Global Goals and National Challenges: MDGs, PRSPs and Decent Work. Where are we? What next?
25 - 27 October 2004, an ILO Staff Seminar in Turin
 
Global goals and National Challenges: MDGs, PRSPs and Decent Work. Where are we? What next?
 

 
Information note
Participants
Resources
 
Programme
Monday 25
Tuesday 26
Wednesday 27
 

 


updated 02.11.04

Monday 25 October 2004

08:00

Departure by bus from ILO Geneva to Turin Centre

12:00

Arrival and accommodation of participants

12:30

Lunch

14:00

Welcome Remarks
Frans Lenglet

Session I - Introduction
Azita Berar Awad

15:00
Session II – Regional and Country Perspectives
Chair:

•  Africa: the African Union Summit on Employment and Poverty and its follow-up
Panelist: Mpenga Kabundi
•  Asia: selected ILO/PRSP country experiences
Panelists: Yukiko Arai and Peter Rademaker
• Arab States
Panelist: Taleb Rifai

Discussion

16:30
Coffee break
16:45

17:45

Session III – Rights-based Approach to Poverty: Recent Developments
Chair : Ibrahim Awad
Panelist: Lee Swepton, Graeme Buckley

Discussion

20:00
Dinner at Restaurant outside ITC
Tuesday 26 October 2004 [top]
08:30

Session IV– Global Reviews and Assessments
Chair : Rashid Amjad

•  The Chronic Poverty Report
Panelist: Andrew Shepherd
•  World Bank Assessment of PRSPs
Panelist: Linda Van Gelder

Discussion

10:00
Coffee Break  
10:15

•  Scaling up Poverty reduction: World Bank Conference
Panelist: Azita Berar Awad
•  PRSP Assessments (IMF, ILO)
Panelist: Graeme Buckley

Discussion
11:15

Session V– Fiscal Space, Macro-policy Frameworks and Public Budgeting for Poverty Reduction
Chair : George Ruigu
Panelists: Duncan Campbell, Moazam Mahmood, Krzysztof Hagemejer

Discussion

12:45

Lunch

14:00
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16:00

Session VI – Tools and Methodologies for Policy Dialogue on Decent Work and Poverty Reduction
Chair : Claudia Coenjaerts

•  The new PRS Manual and Negotiation Training Package
Panelist: Alana Albee, Kimberly Ludwig, Nieves Thomet

Discussion

•  Gender, Poverty, Employment
Panelist: Amelita King Desjardin
•  MDG Fact sheets
Panelist: Heidi Johansen

Discussion
15:15
Coffee break
15:30
Discussion
16:00
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17:30

Working groups: planning for capacity-building

•  Constituents
•  ILO

Reporting back
Chair: Dayina Mayenga

19:30
Dinner at ITC
Wednesday 27 October 2004 [top]
08:30

Session VII – Decent Work in National Frameworks: Coherence and Coordination Issues (UNDAF, CCA, PRSP, MDG...)
Chair :Donglin Li
Panelist: Christine Cornwell, Rose-Marie Greve, Theresa Smout

10:00
Coffee Break
10:15

Session VIII – Decent Work and Local Development Strategies
Chair person:
Panelists: Jurgen Schwettmann, Amelita King Desjardin

Discussion

12:00
Lunch
14:00 -
15:30

Session IX - Conclusions and the Way Forward

14:00 - 15:00 Working Groups: Next Steps

15:00 - 15:30 Reporting Back
Chair: Gerry Rodgers

Jean François Trémaud

17:00
Departure by bus to Geneva

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