9.00-9.30

Registration and Coffee

11 June

Key Note Presentations

Venue: Conference Room III

9.30-10.00

Introduction to Danish Development Days

- State Secretary Ib Petersen, Head of South Group, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

10.00-12.00

Economic Growth and Poverty reduction: Can it happen in Africa?

Key note speaker Benno Ndulu, Regional Economic Adviser, World Bank, Main author of Challenges of African Growth, 2007

13.00-14.00

Lunch (for participants in the following workshops)

Pro-Poor Economic Development

Venue:

Fragile States

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Environment

Venue:

14.00-16.00

Rural Development in Africa.

Themes:

·        Productivity and competitiveness of small holders;

·        Role of government and international Aid

Presenters: Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Benno Ndulu

Facilitator:

Rapporteur:

BFT: Hanne Carus

Development assistance in fragile states – current thinking and practice.

Presenter:  Jordan Ryan, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General (Recovery and Governance), the United Nations mission in Liberia

Facilitator: Christian Lotz, Africa Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Rapporteur: Julian Brett, Consultant, Governance and Security in Development, COWI

BFT: Karin Poulsen

Global Sustainability/Ecological Foot print/Limits for Growth.

Presenter(s): Kim Carstensen, Secretary General, WWF DK (tbc)

Facilitator:

Rapporteur:

BFT: Henning Nøhr

12 June

Key Note Presentation

Venue: Conference Room III

09.00-10.30

Conflicts and state fragility: The Global Agenda

Key note speaker To be confirmed (Karin Poulsen)

Pro-Poor Economic Development

Venue:

Fragile states

Venue:

Environment

Venue:

11.00-13.00

The Economic Empowerment of Women and Development.

Workshop themes

·        Discussion of the constraints that women face in order to capture income earning opportunities and the initiatives to resolve them.

·        Discussion of the beneficial development effects of empowering women.

 

Theme presenter

Kathleen van den Broeck, Copenhagen University

Discussants

Christian Lund, Roskilde University (to be confirmed)

Rie Odgaard, DIIS (to be confirmed)

Facilitator

Anne-Lise Klausen, NCG

Rapporteur:

Security System Reform – supporting security and justice in fragile states.

Theme presenters: A representative from the OECD/DAC Network on Conflict, Peace and Development Cooperation (tbc) and Abdel-Fatau Musah, Danida conflict prevention adviser to ECOWAS, Nigeria.

Facilitator:

Rapporteur: Louise Andersen, PhD student, Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

BFT: Karin Poulsen

Livelihood and natural resource management.

Presenter(s): Henning Høgh Jensen, Dpt. of Agricultural Science, University of Copenhagen

Iben Nathan Dpt. of Forest and Landscape, University of Copenhagen)

Elsebeth Tarp (BFT)

Facilitator: Marten Sørensen, Dpt. of Ecology, University of Copenhagen

Rapporteur: Anne-Lise Klausen, Nordic Consulting Group (tbc)

BFT: Elsebeth Tarp & Lars Eskild Jensen

13.00-14.00

Lunch

14.00-16.00

Development of small and medium sized enterprise. Challenges and policy responses.

Theme presenters: Tine Breinholt, NIRAS, Henrik Egelyng, DIIS, Susanne Møller Andersen, NIRAS. Potential of organic SME. Olav Jull Sørensen, Aalborg University, Jørgen Billetoft, CDC. Public and Private Sector Roles in SME Development. Esben Rahbek Pedersen and Søren Jeppesen, CBS. Corporate Social Responsibility and SME Development. Henrik Schaumburg Müller, CBS. Definition of SME Sector and Need for Aid.

Facilitator: Prof. Finn Tarp (University of Copenhagen, Institute of Economics)

Rapporteur:

BFT: Lasse Møller

State building in fragile states – the role of civil society.

Theme presenters: A representative from the Crisis States Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science (tbc) and Sushil Pyakurel, former Commissioner of the Human Rights Commission of Nepal, founder of INSEC and human rights advocate (tbc)

Facilitator: Christian Friis Bach, International Director, DanChurchAid

Rapporteur: Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen, Head of the Department for Humanitarian Policy and Assistance and NGO Co-operation

BFT: Karin Poulsen

Energy for development in Africa.

Presenters: Mr. Ivan Nørgaard, PhD, Energy Researcher, UNEP Risø Centre

Mr. Rene Karottki, Advisor, EU Commission, DG Dev

Facilitator: Mr. Gordon A. Mackenzie, Senior Energy Planner, UNEP Risø Centre

Rapporteur: Jørgen Boldt, Energy Consultant, WAZEE

BFT: Søren Kristoffersen

13 June

Key Note

Venue: Conference Room III

09.00-09.45

Climate Change and Development/the role of civil society (the “Up in Smoke Initiative)

Key note speaker: Saleemul Huq, Chief Scientist, IIED

09.45-10.30

Climate and Disaster Risk Reduction

Key note speaker: Saroj Kumar Jha, Programme Manager, Global Facility on Disaster Risk Reduction (GFDRR), The World Bank

Pro-Poor Economic Development

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Governance

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Environment

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11.00-13.00

Financing Water and Sanitation – sustainability and accountability.

Presenter

Niels Palmvang, COWI

Discussant

Helle Munk Ravnborg, DIIS (to be confirmed)

Palle Lindgård Jørgensen, DHI

Facilitator

Torkil Jønch Clausen, DWF

Rapporteur

Miriam Feilberg, DWF

BFT: Kurt Mørck Jensen

Danish support to public sector management. From strategy to practice.

Presenter: Torben Lindqvist, Chief Technical Adviser and colleagues, TAS Ministry of Foreign Affairs,

Discussants: Joseph Rugimyemheto, former Head of Public Service Management, Presidents Office, Tanzania; Nils Boesen, Consultant and Capacity Development Expert

Facilitator: Thomas Thomsen, Governance Consultant.

Rapporteur: Marie-Louise Appelqvist, Nordic Consulting Group)

BFT: Søren Davidsen

Climate Change: Adaptation and mitigation in Africa – where to go?

Theme presenter(s)

-         Kjeld Rasmussen

-         DMI

-         Risø?

-         DTU/UN-RISØ/ Birgitte Alring

Facilitator:

Rapporteur:

BFT:  Henning Nøhr

13.00-14.00

Lunch

14.00-16.00

Economic growth China; Impact on Africa.

Presenters: Mr. Mr. Olu Ajakaiye, Director of Research, Africa Economic Research Consortium

Jørgen Delman, Director Nordic Institute for Asia Studies

Facilitator:

Rapporteur:

BFT: Søren Davidsen

Staff Management, Organisational Performance in Tanzania and Uganda: Public Servant Perspectives.

Presenters: Ole Therkildsen, Senior Researcher Danish Institute of International Studies, Joseph Rugimyemheto, former Head of Public Service Management, Presidents Office, Tanzania

Facilitator: Morten Elkjær

Rapporteur:

BFT: Morten Elkjær

Climate change impact on water management and agriculture in developing countries.

Workshop themes

·        Impact on water resources and water management                                            

·        Impact on agriculture

Theme presenters

Water: Torkil Jønch Clausen, DHI

Agriculture: NN (to be confirmed)

Facilitator

Keld Rasmussen, Copenhagen University (to be confirmed)

Rapporteur

16.00-17.00

Closing ‘Danida Development Days’. Representatives from Danish Resource Base