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Danida Development Days 8-9 June 2009Venue: ‘Eigtveds Pakhus’, Asiatisk Plads 2 G (next to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs).
PROGRAMMEThe Africa Commission: Making the Recommendations a RealityDay One

Venue: Room III

09:00 Opening Speech: Ib Petersen, State Secretary, Ambassador–09:2009:20 Introduction to DDD: John Nielsen, Head of Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs-09.3009:30 Keynote speaker: Zeinab El-Bakri, Vice-President of African Development Bank–“Developing African financial markets: Who should do it, and how?”09:5009:50 Keynote speaker: Betty Maina, Executive Director, Kenya Association of Manufacturers–“The private sector perspective of development in Africa”10:1010:10 Keynote speaker: Klaus Bustrup, Chairman of the Board for International Development Cooperation. “Shifting–focus to the private sector: What does it take and what can it bring?”10:3010:30 –11:00 Coffee Break11:00 Plenary debate–Moderator: Mette Knudsen, Head of Africa Department12:0012:00 – 13:00 Sandwiches - outside Conference Room II and III

Initiative: Access to

Investment Finance for

SMEs

Venue: Room III

(session 1)

13:00–13:30A case story on “Private sectordevelopment and access tofinance in practice”Rehema Shambwe, SME financeofficer, CRDBPanel Discussion:“Private sector development andaccess to finance in practice”Presenters:Andrew Temu, PASSTanzaniaPietro Calice, Senior InvestmentOfficer, ADBDiscussant:John Rand, Associate professor,Department of Economics,University of Copenhagen14:45 – 15:00 Coffee Break15:00 Discussion-16:00Facilitator:Morten Elkjær

Initiative: Unleashing

African Entrepreneurship

Venue: Room II

(session 2)

A case story“An African private sector success”

Initiative: Access to

Sustainable Energy

Venue: Room IV

(session 3)

A case story“Jatropha oil as a sustainable energysource in Mali”Ibrahim Togola, Founder &Director of MFC Nyetaa, MaliPanel Discussion“What does it take to make localsustainable energy production bySMEs a success in Africa?”Presenters:Abeeku Brew-Hammond, ActingDirector, the Energy Centre (TEC)Youssef Arfaoui, ADBDiscussant:Ivan Nygaard, UNEP-RisøDiscussionFacilitator:Silke Westphal
13:30–14:45
Panel Discussion”What does it take to create moreyoung entrepreneurs in Africa?”Presenters:Martin Clemensson, Small EnterpriseProgramme ILOAndrew Fiddaman, Director, Prince ofWales FoundationDiscussant:Lars Teilgård Jensen, Danish IndustryDiscussionFacilitator:Tue Bak
Day Two08:30 – 09:00 Coffee and tea

Venue: Room III

09:00 Keynote Speaker: Minister for Development Cooperation Ulla Tørnæs–09:2009:20 Keynote Speaker: Robert Calderisi, Economic Consultant and Writer, Montreal, Quebec–“The role of development co-operation in supporting job creation through private sector development”09:4009:40 Keynote Speaker: John Page, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institute–“The financial crisis: Constraints and opportunities for African economies, the case for manufacturing”10:0010:00 Plenary debate–Moderator: Christian Friis Bach, International Director, DanChurchAid11:0011:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

Initiative: Promoting Post-Primary Education and

Research

Track 1: Technical and Track 2: Linking University

Vocational Skills

Education, Research and

Development

Business in Sustainable

Agriculture

Venue: Room II

Venue: Room III

(session 5)

(session 4)

11:30-13:00Panel Discussion:“Best practices in technical andvocational skills development inAfrica”Presenters:Mpenga Kabundi, DeputyDirector for Africa Region, ILODaniel Baffour-Awuah,Executive Director, Council forTechnical and VocationalEducation and Training, GhanaDiscussant:Carsten BrondenMogens JensenFacilitator:Hans Henrik MadsenPanel Discussion:“How to link university education,research and business in sustainableagriculture”Presenters:Ralph von Kaufmann, Director,Capacity Strengthening, Forum forAgricultural Research in Africa(FARA)Professor John Kuada, Centre forInternational Business, Department ofBusiness Studies, Aalborg UniversityDiscussant:Stefano Ponte, Senior Researcher,DIISFacilitator:Lars Christian Oxe

Initiative: Benchmarking

African Competitiveness

Venue: Room IV

(session 6)

Panel Discussion:“How to improve and benchmarkcompetitiveness in Africa”Presenters:Margareta Drzeniek Hanouz,Director, Senior Economist, GlobalCompetitiveness Network of theWorld Economic ForumDiscussants:John Rand, Associate professor,Department of Economics,University of CopenhagenNina Torm, Research Assistant,Department of Economics,University of CopenhagenFacilitator:Søren Davidsen
13:00 – 14:00 Sandwiches - outside Conference Room II and III

Cross-cutting Issue:

Advancing the

Economic

Empowerment of

Women

Venue: Room III

(session 7)

14:00–15:30Panel Discussion:“How to advance the economicempowerment of women”Presenters:Andrew R. Morrison,Lead Economist,Gender and Development,World BankJens Anders Kovsted,Director of Analysis, Ph.D.Centre for Economic andBusiness Research (CEBR)Copenhagen Business SchoolDiscussant:Dorte Busch, Danish Red Cross

Cross-cutting Issue:

Agricultural Value-chains

as a Strategy for Sustained

Economic Growth

Venue: Room II

(session 8)

Panel Discussion:“Agriculture as a vehicle for sustainedeconomic growth, with a focus onvalue chain development – the case oforganic export products”Presenters:Charles Walaga, Chief ExecutiveOfficer, UgoCert, UgandaSven Jensen, Project Manager,SolhjuletDiscussant:Lise Andreasen, InternationalCoordinator, ICROFS (Int. Centre forResearch in Organic Food Systems)

Cross-cutting Issue: Good

Governance as a

Prerequisite for Economic

Growth and Development

Venue: Room IV

(session 9)

Panel Discussion:“The benefits of transparency,accountability and the rule of lawfor economic growth anddevelopment”Presenters:Richard Hooper, Director, Law andDevelopment PartnershipMarcelo Mosse, Director, Centre forPublic Integrity, MozambiqueDiscussant:Mads Holst Jensen, Researcher,Human Rights and Business project,Danish Institute for Human Rights
15:30–15.4515:45
Facilitator:Facilitator:Facilitator:Anne-Lise KlausenFlemming Winther OlsenMarianne KressClosing remarks: Klaus Bustrup, Chairman of the Board for International Development Cooperation
Cocktails in rooms C/D on the ground floor.