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DRAFT AGENDA (3/10)
TUESDAY, MARCH
28
4:00 p.m. BUSES DEPART FROM THE BANK
(MC "North" 1818 H Street, NW)
5:00 p.m. ARRIVE AT WESTFIELDS AND CHECK-IN
(Conference
Lobby 1)
6:00 p.m. RECEPTION (Upper Rotunda)
7:00 p.m. DINNER AND WELCOME
(Grand Dominion Ballroom)
Welcome: Robert L Thompson, Director (RDV)
James Wolfensohn Video
Millennium Film
Speaker: Ian Johnson, Vice President (ESSD)
INFOFAIR MARCH
29-30 (Promenade)
INFOFAIR and the Video Room (Adams) will open Wednesday morning and run all day through Thursday
Coordinated by Galina Arkusinski and Jaime Yepez (RDV)
WEDNESDAY, March 29
7:00 - 8:30 a.m. BREAKFAST BUFFET (Fairfax Dining Room)
8:30 - 9:00 a.m. VILLAGE MUSIC CIRCLES (Washingtonian Ballroom)
Team Building Activity: Arthur Hull
9:00 - 9:45 a.m. PLENARY SESSION (Washingtonian Ballroom)
Vision to Action
Opening Address: Robert L Thompson (RDV)
9:45 - 10:30
a.m. INFOFAIR OPENING/COFFEE BREAK (Promenade)
10:30 - 12:30 p.m. PLENARY
SESSION (Washingtonian Ballroom)
Agricultural Growth, Rural Development, and Poverty Reduction
Chair:
Keynote Speaker: John Mellor
Panel: Julio Bedque
Christina Malmberg Calvo
12:30 - 2:00 p.m. LUNCH (Fairfax Dining Room)
2:00 - 4:00 p.m. PARALLEL SESSIONS
:
Integrated Approach to Risk Management (Lincoln Forum)
Chair:
Speakers: Paul Siegel(HDNSP)
Nawal Kamel (SRMPG)
Michel Debatisse (ECSSD)
Agricultural
Services and the Poor (Grand Dominion I-II)
This session will provide new insights on the poverty impacts of current changes in the ways that agricultural services are financed and organized.
Chair: Cornelis de Haan (RDV)
Speakers: Julio Berdegue (Chile)
Vinod Ahuja (India)
Peter Hazell (IFPRI)
Trade Globilization With Equity (Grand Dominion III-IV)
Chair: Csaba Csaki (ECSSD)
Speakers: Nacer Benjelloun-Touimi (Moroccan Ambassador to Office of the UN in Switzerland)
Tracey Simbi ( Special Adviser, Ministry of Agriculture, South Africa)
Rolf Moehler (EU and former Deputy Director-General of the European Commission)
Hans Binswanger (AFTRE)
Alberto
Valdez
Community-Driven Rural Infrastructure (Jeffersonian V-VI)
Chair: Philippe Dongier
Speaker: Elinor Ostrom (Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis,
Indiana University)
Land Policy Issues and Projects in Collaborating Institutions (Grand
Dominion V-VI)
In this session, specialists from partner organizations will present their institutions' strategy as well as specific projects they are involved in with the goal of promoting exchange of ideas and collaboration at the strategic and the operational level.
Chair:
Speakers: Bruce Moore (Popular Coalition for the
Eradication of Hunger & Poverty)
Jim Ridell (FAO)
Julian Quan (DFID)
Willi Zimmerman (GTZ)
Jolyne Sankaj (USAID)
Ken Lyons (AusAID)
Water, Food and Rural Development:
(Jeffersonian III-IV)
Chair: Fernando Gonzalez
Speakers: Jose Antonio Mendoza (Undersecretary for Rural Development, Mexico)
Bart Schultz (President, International Commission for Irrigation and Drainage)
4:00 - 5:00 p.m. INFOFAIR/COFFEE BREAK (Promenade)
5:00 - 6:00 p.m. VILLAGE MUSIC CIRCLES (Washingtonian Ballroom)
7:00 - 8:00 p.m. DINNER (Fairfax Dining Room)
THURSDAY, MARCH 30
7:00 - 8:30 a.m. BREAKFAST BUFFET (Fairfax Dining Room)
8:30 - 10:00 a.m. PLENARY (Washingtonian Ballroom)
Housekeeping: Charles Maguire (RDV)
Introduction: Robert L. Thompson (RDV)
Poverty Elimination, Rural Livelihoods and Sustainable
Development
Chair:
Keynote Speaker: Andrew Bennett (DFID)
10:00 - 10:45 a.m.. INFOFAIR/COFFEE BREAK (Promenade)
10:45 - 12:30
p.m. PARALLEL
SESSIONS
Importance of Gender in Rural Poverty Reduction: From Project to Policy Level Indicators (Lincoln Forum)
This session is particularly recommended for rural development specialists who are grappling with questions of how to attack rural poverty by consistently trying to achieve equitable and inclusive development initiatives.
Chair: Karen Mason
Case Presenters:
West Africa Abdelkrim Oka
Boubacar Macalou
Marguerite Monnet
East Asia and Pacific Sofjan Iskander
Christine Pomerleau-Pelzer
Dely P. Gapasin (EASRD)
Gillian Brown (EASES)
Understanding Rural-Urban Linkages and Rural Non-farm Economies for Growth and Poverty Alleviation
(Jeffersonian I-II)
This session aims to raise awareness of the spatial dimension of development planning and the potential to improve poverty reduction outcomes through a deeper understanding of rural-urban linkages, including their relationship to the non-farm economy in rural areas.
Chair: Anthony Pellegrini, Director Urban Dev.
Speakers: Mike Douglass, University of Hawaii
Jean-Marie Cour, Club du Sahel/OECD
Serge Snrech, Club du Sahel/OECD
Tom Reardon(Michigan State University)
Forests and the Poor: The Impact of Globalization
(Hamilton)
Chair:
Speaker: J.E.M. Arnold
Case
Study: Reform in Indian Forestry
Institutions
Julia Falconer(SASRD)
Indian
Paola
From Subsistence to Sustainability:
Community-Driven Approaches to Rural Rural Development
(Jeffersonian III-IV)
This session seeks to debunk the myths and clarify the confusion about the possibilities and limitations of community driven development programs.
Moderator: Lynn Brown (RDV)
Panel: Rudolph Polson (AFTR3)
Adolfo Brizzi (LCC1F)
Karen McConnell-Brooks (AFTR1)
Ashok Seth (SASRD)
Philippe Dongier (TWUWS)
Christian Pieri (RDV)
Rural Finance (Jeffersonian
V-VI)
Chair: Gershon Feder (invited)
Speakers: Jacob Yaron (RDV)
Stephanie Charitonienko
Rodrigo Chaves (OCSKM)
Judith Brandsma (MNSPF)
12:30 - 2:00 p.m. RURAL POOR LUNCH (Grand Dominion)
Report on Findings from Phase II of
"From Vision to
Action"Evaluation
Speakers: John R. Heath (OEDST)
Christopher D. Gerrard (OEDST)
2:00 - 2:40 p.m. PLENARY (Washingtonian Ballroom)
Rural Sector Strategy: Revisiting the Vision and Action
Chair: Robert L. Thompson (Director RDV)
Panel: Malcolm Bale (EAP) Sushma Ganguly (AFR)
Facilitator: John Strawhorn
2:40 - 3:45 p.m. REGIONAL BREAKOUTS
AFR (Grand Dominion I-II)
ECA (Jeffersonian V-VI)
EAP (Jeffersonian III-VI)
LAC (Monroe)
MNA (Hamilton)
SAR (Jeffersonian I-II)
3:45 - 4:00 p.m. COFFEE BREAK (Rotunda)
4:00 - 5:00 p.m. REGIONAL BREAKOUTS (Continued)
5:00
- 6:00 p.m. INFOFAIR (Promenade) and
VIDEO ROOM (Adams)
7:00 - 8:30 p.m. DINNER (Washingtonian Ballroom)
9:00 - 11:00 p.m. LIVE MUSIC (Lounge)
FRIDAY, MARCH 31
7:00 - 8:30 a.m. BREAKFAST (Fairfax
Dining Room)
8:30 - 10:00 a.m. PARALLEL SESSIONS
Integrated Pest Management to Increase
Farmer's Profits
(Jeffersonian III-IV)
This session will draw attention to achievements made by national IPM programs all over the world and illustrate how global collaboration is enhancing the uptake of IPM.
Chair: Agnes Kiss (AFTE1)
Speakers: Harry van der Wulp (RDV)
Peter Kenmore (Global IPM Facility)
Case Presenters: Dely P. Gapasin (EASRD)
Gerd Fleischer (RDV)
Tjaart Schillhorn van Veen (ECSSD)
Public/Private
Partnership (PPP) ( Lincoln Forum)
This session is designed to clarify the nature of public-private cooperation, examine its scope, and explore the risks and rewards.
Chair: Klaus von Grebmer
Speakers: Dr. Joko Budianto (Director General, AARD, Indonesia)
Joost van der Burg (Plant Research International, Netherlands)
Strategic Approaches to Market Development in Agriculture (Grand Dominion III-IV)
Chair:
Speakers: Michel Debatisse (SRMCG)
Daniele P. Giovannucci (MATT)
Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping Systems (FIVIMS (Grand Dominion V-VI )
This session will show the link between FIVIMS and actions needed to address the issues involved and will also cover the linkage to the initiative under the CP for the strengthening of agricultural and rural statistics in Africa.
Chair:
Speakers: David Wilcock (FAO)
David Marshall (FAO)
Role of Agriculture Technology in Rural Development (Jeffersonian V-VI)
Chair: Andrew J. Bennett (CGIAR)
Speaker: Robert Evenson (Yale University)
Discussants: Shawki Barghouti (RDV)
Ashok Kumar Seth (SASRD)
Jacob Kampen (AFTR1)
10:00 - 10:30 a.m. COFFEE BREAK (Rotunda)
10:30 - 12:30 p.m. PLENARY (Washingtonian Ballroom)
Administrative Issues: Charles Maguire (RDV)
Regional Summaries:
Rural Development: Looking Ahead
Speaker: Robert L Thompson (RDV)
12:30 - 1:00 p.m. CHECKOUT (Lobby)
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. LUNCH (Fairfax Dining Room)
2:30 p.m. BUSES DEPART
3:30 p.m. ARRIVE AT WORLD BANK
8: 00 a.m. BUS DEPARTS FROM THE BANK
(MC "North" 1818 H Street, NW)
9:00 a.m. ARRIVE
AT WESTFIELDS
9:00 - 10:00 a.m. PLENARY
(Washingtonian Ballroom)
Poverty Elimination, Rural
Livelihoods and Sustainable
Development
Keynote Speaker: Andrew Bennett (DFI)
10:00 - 10:45 a.m. COFFEE BREAK and INFOFAIR (Promenade)
ACS
PLENARY (Madison)
10:45 - 11:00 a.m. Welcome: Robert L. Thompson (RDV)
11:00 - 11:30 a.m. The ACS Staff in the Changing Institution
Pauline Earp (HRSVP)
11:30 - 12:30 a.m. Cogs and Wheels: The Importance of the ACS Staff
and Their
Changing Roles
Sharon Isaac and Team (LCSPR)
12:30 - 2:00 p.m. RURAL
POOR LUNCH (Grand Dominion)
Report on Findings from Phase II of
"From Vision to
Action"Evaluation
Speakers: John R. Heath (OEDST)
Christopher D. Gerrard (OEDST)
ACS PLENARY (Madison)
2:00 - 3:30
p.m. Knowledge Management: Knowledge Sharing Involving the Network and Regions
Rosemary O'Neill and Team (RDV)
3:30 - 4:00
p.m. INFOFAIR/ VIDEO ROOM/ COFFEE BREAK (Promenade)
4:30 p.m. BUS DEPARTS WESTFIELDS
5.30 p.m.
ARRIVE AT WORLD BANK
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