Africa after 2005: From Promises to Policy

Friday 9th December 2005, Church House, Westminster

9am	Registration and Coffee
9.30	Introduction by Ian Diamond, CEO, Economic and Social Research Council
9.45	Keynote Speech: Dr Anna Tibaijuka, Executive Director, UN-HABITAT and Under-Secretary General of the UN
10.15	First session: Globalisation: Crucial Choices for Africa Chair: Professor Cecile Jackson, President of the Development Studies Association Presenter: Professor Jan Aart Scholte, University of Warwick Discussants: Dr Diery Seck, Director, UN Institute of Development Economics and Planning, Dakar, Senegal Myles Wickstead, former Director of the Commission for Africa Secretariat .
11.30	Coffee
12.00	Second Session: The Importance of Understanding the Local Chair: Simon Maxwell, Director, Overseas Development Institute Presenter: Feleke Tadele Discussants: Anna Tibaijuka, Executive Director, UN HABITAT; Theo Sowa, Chair Comic Relief Panel on Children
1.15	LUNCH
2.15	Third Session: Trade and the Rapid Reduction of Poverty in Africa Chair: Richard Dowden, Director, Royal African Society Presenter: Professor Francis Teal, University of Oxford Discussants: 'Dapo Oyewole, Director, Centre for African Policy and Peace Studies; Rosemary Stevenson, Head of Africa Policy Division, DFID
3.30	TEA
4.00	What next? From Promises to Policy Chair: Simon Maxwell, Director, Overseas Development Institute Discussants: Patrick Watt, Policy Officer, ActionAid Gib Bulloch, Director, Accenture Partnerships Professor Kenneth King, Director, Centre of African Studies, Edinburgh Grace Mukasa, Head of Programmes - Africa, VSO
5.15	Thanks and close from Professor Cecile Jackson, President of the DSA
5.30 - 7.00	Drinks reception, Music from the Ehekwe Collective, a Ghanaian Hi-Life band