Draft Programme

AFTER 2015: PROMOTING PRO-POOR POLICY AFTER THE MDGS

HIGH LEVEL POLICY FORUM, 23 JUNE 2009, RESIDENCE PALACE, BRUSSELS

9.00                 Registration

9.30-11.00       Plenary one: What has been the impact of the MDG paradigm on poverty reduction to date and what does that mean for an MDG plus agenda?

Salil Shetty, Director, United Nations Millennium Campaign

Professor Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, New School, New York

Chair: Professor Lawrence Haddad, President, DSA

11.00-11.30     Coffee

11.30-1.00       Plenary two: What are the key meta-processes shaping development over the next 10-15 years and what to they imply for an MDG plus agenda?

Margret Thalwitz, Research Fellow, German Development Institute and EADI EDC2020

Professor Olusanya Ajakaiye, Director of Research, African Economic Research Consortium

Chair: Professor Jean-Luc Maurer, President, EADI

1.00-2.00         Lunch

2.00-3.30         Parallel Task Forces in breakout rooms addressing a set of foundational questions on what if anything, should replace the MDG paradigm and thus form an MDG plus agenda? Each group will report after tea.

3.30-4.00         Tea

4.00-4.30         Task forces report back

4.30-6.00         Final Plenary: Towards an MDG plus agenda?

Kumi Naidoo, Secretary General, Global Call to Action Against Poverty (tbc)

Louis Kasekende, Chief Economist, African Development Bank

Selim Jahan, Director of Poverty Practice, UNDP

Claire Melamed, Head of Policy, ActionAid UK.

Chair: Andrew Steer, Director General Policy and Research, DFID

6.00-8.00         Wine reception in lobby of Residence Palace