VISIT PROGRAMME

 

THE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE

COPENHAGEN

15/16 MAY 2008

 

 

 

Thursday 15 May

 

0950

Committee departs Berlin on flight SAS 1674

 

1055

Committee (Annex A) arrive Copenhagen airport

 

1130

Depart airport for British Embassy (minibus). Embassy driver to take luggage to hotel for it to be stored under group reference number. (Embassy car)

 

1200

Briefing by the Ambassador David Frost over sandwich lunch at Embassy.

 

1330

Depart Embassy (minibus)

 

1345

MFA Development Department (UDV)

Asiatisk Plads

Martin Hermann 33 92 13 29

 

Followed by meeting with DANIDA

incl

Margrethe Holm Andersen

DANIDA’s Evaluation Department (assessing the Danish contribution to the implementation of the Paris Declaration)

 

1545

Depart (by foot)

 

1600

 

Niels Dabelstein

Secretariat for the international evaluation of the Paris Declaration

DIIS

Strandgade 56

 

1700

Depart DIIS (minibus)

 

1715

Arrive Copenhagen Marriott Hotel

 

Confirmation Number: 83179939

 

Check in and receive luggage

 

 

 

Free time

 

1830

Depart hotel (minibus)

 

1900

Dinner with invited guests and experts in the field (Annex C)

 

2200

Return to hotel (minibus)

 

 

Friday 16 May

 

0845

Depart hotel (minibus)

 

(Visitors to settle own bill on departure)

 

0900

Professor Finn Tarp and Sam Jones

Development Economics Research Group

University of Copenhagen
Bispetorvet 3

 

Ambassador to take part

 

1000

Depart University (minibus)

 

1015

 

Folketing’s Foreign Affairs Committee

Christiansborg

 

Present (names to be confirmed):

Chairman Gitte Seeberg

Members of the Committee

Ambassador

 

1115

Depart Folketing (minibus)

David Frost to return to Embassy (Embassy vehicle)

 

1130

DanChurchAid
Nørregade 15

Meeting jointly with 4-5 NGOs

 

Contact at DanChurchAid: Morten Emil Hansen

 

Proposed agenda (tbc):

1)    Aid effectiveness, the Paris Declaration and the role of civil society

2)    Fragile States and the role of Civil Society

3)    The New Danish Civil Society Strategy

 

1230

Informal lunch at organisation offices

 

1315

Depart for airport/Free time (minibus)

 

tbc

 

[Depart Copenhagen on flight BA819 at 1800 or earlier]


 

 

ANNEX A

 

Members

 

Malcolm Bruce MP, Chairman (Liberal Democrats)

Hugh Bayley MP (Labour)

Richard Burden MP (Labour)

Marsha Singh MP (Labour)

Sir Robert Smith MP (Liberal Democrats)

Jim Sheridan MP (Labour)

 

Accompanying members of Secretariat

 

Matthew Hedges, Second Clerk

Dr Anna Dickson, Committee Specialist