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11 September 2003 - Opening Session: Making the Case for Development Del Prado Room (8:30 - 9:30)
Speakers:
Eveline Herfkens, UN Secretary-General’s Executive Coordinator for the Millennium Development Goals Campaign: Speech
Jeremy Hobbs, Executive Director, Oxfam International
Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz, Executive Director, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development
Ben Ngubane, Minister of Science and Technology, Republic of South Africa: Speech
Chair: Sylvia Ostry, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto
Session 1 (9:30 - 13:30)
Session 1.1 - Miro Room: IPRs, Trade and Challenges for Development: Substance and Process
Organisers: ICTSD, QIAP, and QUNO
Session 1.2 - Murillo Room: Towards a Pro-poor Agenda for the Doha round: The Role of rich Countries and International Donors
Organisers: CGD and the World Bank
Session 1.3 - Picasso Room: Standards and Market Access: Northern Consumers - Southern Producers: The need for an alliance
Organiser: CUTS-CITEE
Afternoon: Brown Bag lunch with Rubens Ricupero, Secretary-General, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (13:30 - 14:30)
Session 2 (14:30 - 18:30)
Session 2.1 - Miro Room: Agriculture, Market Access and Livelihoods
1. Is There a Future for Family Farming in West Africa?
2. Agrifood Supply Chains: Impacts of Concentration on Incomes & Livelihoods
Organiser: IIED
Session 2.2 - Murillo Room: Free Trade, Development and Sustainability: Lessons from Mexico
Organisers: WWF MPO in collaboration with CEIP, ICTSD, CEC, GDAE
Session 2.3 - Picasso Room: How Can Trade Stimulate Sustainable Development in Agriculture?
Organisers: Trade Knowledge Network (CAITEC, CINPE, ICTSD, IISD, RIDES, SDPI)
Session 2.4 - Del Prado Room: Putting Human Development into Trade Negotiations
Organiser: UNDP
12 September 2003 - Morning (9:00 am - 13:00)
Session 3.1 - Miro Room: Investment as if Sustainable Development Really Mattered
Organisers: IISD, RIIA, GDAE, RIS, WRI
Session 3.2 - Murillo Room: Rules and Institutions for Sustainable Development in Latin America (I)
Organisers: ECLAC and LATN
Session 3.3 - Picasso Room: Power, Trade, and Development Policies: The Global Value Chain Analysis
1. The Global Value Chain Analysis and Poverty Reduction
2. Trade and Export Strategies: Lessons Learnt
Organiser: The Global Value Chain Network
Afternoon (14:00 - 18:00)
Session 4.1 - Miro Room: Recovering ‘Spaces for Development Policy’: Special & Differential Treatment, Innovation, and Sustainable Development
Organisers: Christian Aid and ICTSD
Session 4.2 - Murillo Room: Rules and Institutions for Sustainable Development in Latin America (II)
Organisers: LATN and ECLAC
Session 4.3 - Picasso Room: Post-Doha Marginalisation of LDC Concerns
Organisers: CPD (Bangladesh) and partners
Closing Session: Delivering Development: Trade Beyond Cancun and Mercantilism
Del Prado Room (18:00 - 19:00)
Speakers:
Aïchatou Agne Pouye, Minister of SMES and Trade, Senegal
Agnes Van Ardenne-van der Hoeven, Minister for Development Cooperation, Netherlands
Patrick Messerlin (Millennium Project Taskforce on Trade)
Rubens Ricupero, Secretary-General, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (invited)
Chair: Tariq Banuri, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI-Boston), Tellus Institute, USA