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Preparatory event for ECOSOC 2005 High-Level Segment on Millennium Development Goals and follow up to Conferences
16-17 March 2005
In preparation for its 2005 high-level segment on the theme
of "Achieving the internationally agreed development
goals, including those contained in the Millennium Declaration,
as well as implementing the outcomes of the major United Nations
conferences and summits: progress made, challenges and opportunities",
the Economic and Social Council held a two-day informal
meeting on 16-17 March 2005.
The opening session featured statements by H.E. Mr. Munir Akram
(Pakistan), President of the Economic and Social Council; H.E.
Mr. Jean Ping, President of the General Assembly; and Mr. José
Antonio Ocampo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social
Affairs; a keynote speech by Mr. Jeffrey Sachs, Special Advisor
to United Nations Secretary General on the Millennium Development
Goals; and remarks by Mr. François Bourguignon, Chief
Economist and Senior Vice-President, Development Economics,
World Bank.
The round tables of this meeting organized by agencies, funds
and programmes, were on the following topics: eradication of
poverty and hunger; education and literacy; health and mortality;
global partnerships and financing development; gender equality
and the empowerment of women; environmental sustainability;
and implementation of the internationally agreed development
goals, including those contained in the Millennium Declaration,
at the country-level.
| 16 MARCH |
| MORNING |
Plenary (ECOSOC Chamber) |
| 10:00-11:00 |
Opening Statement by the President of ECOSOC
Statement by the President of the General Assembly
Statement by Mr. Jose Antonio Ocampo, Under-Secretary-General
for Economic and Social Affairs
Keynote Speech by Mr. Jeffrey Sachs, Special Advisor to
United Nations Secretary General on the Millennium Development
Goals
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| 11:00 - 1:00 |
Roundtable 1: Eradication of Poverty and Hunger
(ECOSOC Chamber)
Chair: H.E. Mr. Munir Akram, President
of ECOSOC
Lead Organizers: FAO, WFP and IFAD
Moderator: Mr. Hartwig de Haen, Assistant-Director-General,
Economic and Social Department, FAO
Issues paper roundtable 1
Summary roundtable 1
Participants: H. E. Ms Judith Mbula Bahemuka,
Permanent Representative of Kenya to the United Nations;
Mr. Derek Byerlee, Rural Policy and Strategy Adviser,
World Bank; Ms Geeta Rao Gupta, President, International
Center for Research on Women. Mr. Gary Howe, Chief Development
Strategist, International Fund for Agricultural Development;
and, Mr. Eddie Lee, Senior Adviser on Economic and Social
Policy in the International Institute for Labour Studies
of the ILO
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| AFTERNOON |
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| 3:00 - 5:30 |
Roundtable 2: Education and literacy (Conference
Room 3)
Chair: H.E. Mr. Johan C. Verbeke (Belgium)
Vice-President of ECOSOC
Lead Organizers: UNESCO and UNICEF
Moderator: Ms. Ann Therese Ndong-Jatta,
Director, Division of Basic Education, UNESCO and Mr. Edwin
Judd, Director of Programme Division, UNICEF
Issues paper roundtable 2
Short Summary roundtable 2
Participants: Ms. Beverly Jones, Sr. Vice-President
and Director of Global Education Programs, Academy of Educational
Development; Ms. Ann M. Scholz, SSND, PhD, NGO Representative,
School Sisters of Notre Dame at the United Nations; Mr.
James Page, Adjunct Research Professor, School of Canadian
Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada; and Ms. Carolyn
Bartholomew, Executive Director, Basic Education Coalition,
Washington, D.C. |
| 3:00 - 5:30 |
Roundtable 3: Health and mortality (ECOSOC Chamber)
Chair: H.E. Mr. Ali Hachani (Tunisia) Vice-President
of ECOSOC
Lead Organizers: WHO, UNFPA, UNAIDS and
UNICEF
Moderators: Dr. Andrew Cassels, Director
for MDGs, WHO; France Donnay, Chief, Reproductive Health
Branch, UNFPA
Issues paper roundtable 3
Summary roundtable 3
Participants: Dr. Agnes Bingawaho, Coordinator
of the Millennium Project’s Working Group on HIV/AIDS,
Task Force on HIV/AIDS, Malaria and TB and access to essential
medicines; Dr. Delanyo Dovlo, Member of the Rockefeller
Foundation, World Bank and WHO’s Joint Learning
Initiative’s Human Resources Working Group on Africa
and Lynn P. Freedman, JD, MPH, Associate Professor, Mailman
School of Public Health at Columbia University and a lead
author of the Report of the Millennium Project Task Force
on Child Health and Maternal Health. |
| 5:30 – 6:00 |
Plenary: Report on the outcomes of the
Roundtables by the President of ECOSOC. |
17 MARCH |
| MORNING |
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| 9 :30 – 11 :30 |
Plenary - Roundtable 4: Global partnerships and
financing development (ECOSOC Chamber)
Chair: H.E. Mr. Munir Akram (Pakistan)
President of ECOSOC
Lead Organizer: UNCTAD
Moderator: Mr. Carlos Fortin, Officer-in-Charge
of UNCTAD
Issues paper roundtable 4
Summary roundtable 4
Participants: H.E. Mr. John B. Richardson,
Ambassador, Head of the Delegation of the European Commission
to the United Nations; Mr. Gawain Kripke, Senior Policy
Advisor, Oxfam America; Mr. Wilfred Lutkenhorst, Director
of Private Sector Development, UNIDO; Ms. Sakiko Fukuda-Parr,
Research Fellow, Harvard University and Director of the
Human Development Report in 1995 – 2004; H.E. Mr.
Aminu Bashir Wali, Ambasador and Permanent Representative
of Nigeria to United Nations (New York); Mr. Luca Barbone,
Director of Poverty Reduction, World Bank and Ms. Janet
Hall, Senior Policy Advisor, UN Foundation |
| 11:30 – 1 :30 |
Roundtable 5: Gender equality and the empowerment
of women (Conference Room 4)
Chair: H.E. Mr. Jaime Moncayo Garcia (Ecuador)
Vice-President of ECOSOC
Lead Organizer: UNIFEM
Moderator: Ms. Noeleen Heyzer, Executive
Director, UNIFEM
Issues paper roundtable 5
Summary roundtable 5
Participants: H.E. Ambassador Johan
Løvald, Permanent Represenative of Norway to the
United Nations; Ms. Caroline Moser, Visiting Fellow in
the Economics Studies Program, Brookings Institution and
Senior Research; Associate with the Poverty and Public
Policy Group of the Overseas Development Institute; Ms.
Aruna Rao, Executive Director of Gender at Work, USA;
Mr. Ngokwey Ndolamb, Secretary of the Executive Board
of UNICEF; and Ms. Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director,
Center for Women’s Global Leadership. |
| 11:30 – 1:30 |
Roundtable 6: Environmental sustainability (ECOSOC
Chamber)
Chair: H.E. Mr. Agim Nesho (Albania) Vice-President
of ECOSOC
Lead Organizers: UNEP and UN-HABITAT
Moderators: Ms. Axumite Gebre-Egziabher,
Director, UN-HABITAT New York Office and Mr. Werner Obermeyer,
Chief, Inter-Agency Affairs, UNEP, NY Office
Issues paper roundtable 6
Summary roundtable 6
Participants: Mr. Pietro Garau, Co-Coordinator
of the Millennium Project Slums Task Force; Mr. Albert
Wright, Co-Coordinator of the Millennium Project Water
and Sanitation Task Force; Permanent Mission of Indonesia
on behalf of the Minister of Environment H. E. Rachmat
Witoelar of Indonesia; Dr. Noel Brown, President, Friends
of the United Nations and Chairman, Rene Dubos Center
on Human Environment; Mr. Nestor Eugenio Ramirez Cardona,
Mayor of Manizales in Colombia,Vice-President of Federation
of Latin American Cities, Municipalities and Associations;
and Ms Ann Wanjiru, Mathare Slum Resident, Groots Kenya
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| AFTERNOON |
Plenary (ECOSOC Chamber) |
| 3:00 - 3 :30 |
Keynote address, Powerpoint presentation by François Bourguignon, Chief
Economist and Senior Vice-President, Development Economics,
World Bank |
| 3:30 - 5:30 |
Roundtable 7: Decisions needed to implement the
Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed
development goals at the country-level: How to advance an
MDG-based approach to poverty reduction.
Lead Organizers: UNDP and the Millennium
Project
Chair: H.E. Mr. Munir Akram (Pakistan)
President of ECOSOC
Moderator: Mr. José Antonio Ocampo,
Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs
Issues paper roundtable 7
Summary roundtable 7
Participants: H.E. Mr. Christopher F.
Hackett, Permanent Representative of Barbados; H.E. Mr.
Ronaldo Mota Sardenberg, Permanent Representative of Brazil;
H.E. Mr. Jean-Marc de La Sablière, Permanent Representative
of France; H.E. Madam Judith Mbula Bahemuka, Permanent
Representative of Kenya ; H.E. Mr. Rashid Alimov, Permanent
Representative of the Republic of Tajikistan ; H.E. Mr.
Alounekèo Kittikhoun, Permanent Representative
of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic; and H.E.
Mr. Abdullah M. Alsaidi, Permanent Representative of the
Republic of Yemen |
| 5:30 - 6:00 |
Closing by the President of ECOSOC |
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