World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings 2010

Welcome Breakfast for CSOs

Come meet the Fund and Bank Civil Society Team staff, learn about Annual Meetings activities such as the Civil Society Forum and  Program of Seminars, and discuss meeting logistics.

Time: 8:30am - 9:00am

Location: IMF HQ1 Room 530

IMF / WBG

Orientation Session on IMF / WBG

This session will focus on the IMF and WBG (IBRD, IFC, MIGA) origins, organizational structure, major policies, and operational work. Space may be limited thus please RSVP to this session by sending email by September 30 to:

Coffee, tea, and cookies will be served

Time: 9:00am - 1:00pm

Location: IMF HQ1 Room 530

IMF / WBG

New Issues and Opportunities in Resource-based Development with Jeffrey Sachs

We are in a new wave of resource-based investments in low-income countries. The rising global prices of minerals, food grains, and hydrocarbons have led to greatly up-scaled investment activity in low-income Africa, Latin America, and Asia.  Once again the specter of the resource-curse looms. This talk will address the ongoing challenge of converting resource-based investments into successful sustainable development in low-income countries, including the design of tools for that purpose, including special-purpose natural-resource funds, public-private infrastructure partnerships, and extractive-industry transparency initiatives. A Q&A and discussion following the talk will be moderated by Karin Lissakers, former US Executive Director to the IMF and currently the Director of The Revenue Watch Institute.

Speaker: Jeffrey Sachs

Time: 10:00am - 11:30am

Location: MCC C1-100

Columbia University Law School, Revenue Watch Institute

Inspection Panel - Civil Society meeting and discussion

The Inspection Panel, in coordination with CIEL, would like to invite you to a gathering to discuss the work of the Inspection Panel, its activities and current investigations, and issues of mutual concern.

Time: 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Location: CIEL, 1350 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Suite 1100

Center for International Environmental Law

Bank Procurement Policies and Practices

The World Bank’s International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA) lend billions of dollars to client countries for projects aimed at fighting poverty. These funds are used by the countries to purchase among others, the consulting services by private companies and CSOs needed to implement the projects.

The session will provide important information to participants on how to find consulting opportunities in World Bank financed projects. It will focus on the following important aspects: how to identify consulting opportunities; the Consultant Guidelines of the Bank; and the role of the Bank and Borrowers and the Consultant in Bank financed procurement. Representatives from two PSLOs will share their experiences which will be aimed at providing participants with practical strategies for winning consulting assignments.

Speakers: Gilles Garcia (PSLO Coordinator, WB)

Nancy Bikondo-Omosa, Procurement Specialist, WB

Shane Jaffer, Government of Alberta, Canada

Katarzyna Batorski, Global Midwest Alliance LLC, United States

Time: 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Location: MC C1-200

World Bank, Private Sector Liaison Offices

Hands on Training Session on Access to Information

The training session will focus on raising awareness among CSOs about the Bank’s new Access to Information (AI) policy and the various sources of information that the World Bank makes available. Participants will learn how the Bank is providing even more information to the public than ever before through the new AI policy. The session will include a presentation of the policy’s guiding principles, and an interactive run-through of the Bank’s various databases and websites and other resources available to them.

The 2 hour session will focus on summary of AI changes and a number of sources of information available on the Bank's operational work including strategy, planning and implementation as outlined below.

• Basics of the AI Policy: Guiding principles and how to submit requests
• What’s public? What’s restricted? The 10 Exceptions
• Sources of information and available resources (AI website, documents and reports, projects db, country websites, country office PICs, etc.)
• CSO user guide – Unlocking the World Bank’s Access to Information Policy
• Q&A and wrap-up

Speakers: Hannah George, Information Officer, WB

Valerie Hufbauer, Translation Team Leader, WB

Jeannette Smith, Information Analyst, WB

Amy Ekdawi, Program Director, Bank Information Center

Time: 3:00pm - 5:00pm

Location: MC 9-850

World Bank, Bank Information Center

Towards A New Development Paradigm - Rethinking the concepts and measures of development and social progress

The 2010 MDG Summit is confronted with simultaneous crises in food security, climate change and the global economic recovery. These reflect the failure of a model of development and economic progress, which is based on a conception of globalization that is blind to environmental and human rights, that confuses economic growth with progress in society, and that regards poverty as a technical challenge unrelated to concerns about inequality and social justice.

The purpose of this panel is to broaden the current development discourse by linking analytical discussions of alternative measures and models of development and well-being, with political discussions about the concrete actions needed to achieve progress in poverty eradication and social justice.

Chair: Chrystia Freeland (Editor at Large, Thompson Reuters)

Speakers: Nancy Birdsall (President, Center for Global Development)

Sabina Alkire (Director, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, Oxford University)

Manuel Montes (Chief, Development Policy and Analysis Division, UNDESA)

Arvind Subramanian (Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics  and Center for Global Development)

Time: 3:00pm - 5:00pm

Location: MC C1-100

The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

IFC Strategy Session for CSOs

Snacks and refreshments will be served.

Time: 5:00pm - 7:00

Location: CIEL's office
1350 Connecticut Ave., NW
Suite #1100

Center for International Environmental Law

World Bank’s Access to Information Policy – First 100 Days

The World Bank and the Bank Information Center (BIC) will co-host this event to discuss the first 100 days of implementation of the Bank’s new Access to Information Policy. The purpose of this event is to continue the constructive engagement with CSOs on the Policy and its implementation that has been ongoing since the policy consultations process. BIC will also launch their new guide for CSOs on how to access and use Bank information.

The format of this event will be a panel discussion followed by a Q&A session with CSO participants.

Speakers: Paul Bermingham, Access to Information Committee Chair, WB

Elisa Liberatori-Prati, Chief Archivist, WB

Amy Ekdawi, Program Coordinator, BIC

Time: 9:00am - 10:30am

Location: MC 13 -121

Bank Information Center

This session will have interpretation in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic

Update on Environment and Energy Strategy Consultations

The World Bank Group has undertaken consultations in recent months to seek inputs for updated strategies guiding its activities on the environment and in the energy sector. Given the extensive links between these two, and the high level of public interest in the critical issues related to these areas, leaders of the respective consultation teams will provide an update on the process. Interested CSO representatives, delegates and observers at the Bank-Fund Annual Meetings are invited to attend, as well as accredited media.

Chair: Gary Allport, Senior Advisor/Birdlife

Speakers: Michele de Nevers, Manager Environment Department/WB

Yewande Aramide Awe, Senior Environmental Engineer/WB

Lucio Monari, Manager Energy Sector Unit/WB

Masami Kojima, Senior Energy Specialist/WB

Time: 9:00am - 10:30am

Location: MC C1-100

World Bank Sustainable Development Network

Financial Inclusion for the Poor

Roughly half of the households in the world have no access to a bank account.  CGAP (Consultative Group to Assist the Poor at the World Bank) notes that only one in five households in the regions poorest countries have access to formal financial services. National governments, entrepreneurs, and NGO are now positioned to design and spread the financial services and products to poor people that can substantially improve their general welfare. Four decades of experience has shown that when poor people have access to financial services they can change their lives and build stronger, more prosperous communities. 

In this workshop, three experts will discuss the concept of financial inclusion of the poor as well as its current and potential impact.   The panel will explore what financial inclusion means, which populations still need access and what are some innovative new technologies and programs designed to reach them.  There will be time allocated for questions and discussion following the presentations.

Speakers: JoDee Winterhof, VP Policy and Advocacy, CARE

Susy Cheston, Senior Director, World Vision

Claudia McKay, CGAP

Time: 9:00am - 10:30am

Location:MC C1-110

CARE, RESULTS, and InterAction

IDA: Helping Countries Achieve Results and Accelerate Progress Toward the MDGs

With only 5 years remaining until 2015, the target date for reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), low-income countries are doubling their efforts to accelerate progress toward the MDGs.  IDA's 16th replenishment will assist the world's poorest countries during the period between July 2011 and June 2014, crucial years in their MDG efforts. 

This session will address how the International Development Association is scaling up its support to IDA-beneficiary countries with a strong focus on achieving results, reducing poverty and achieving long-term growth.

Speakers: Axel van Trotsenburg, Vice President, Concessional Finance and Global Partnerships, WB

David Beckmann, President, Bread for the World

Archbishop Ndunganeh, President, African Monitor

Time: 9:00am - 10:30am

Location: MC C1-200

World Bank

Making Aid Harmonization, Alignment, and Coordination Work for African Countries

The broad agreement reached by both developing and developed countries at the Paris Declaration of 2005, and then reinforced by the Accra Agenda for Action adopted in 2008, was that aid effectiveness had to increase significantly. In order to achieve this, they agreed to support developing country efforts to strengthen governance and improve development outcomes. Specific objectives included:  improving the impact of development assistance at the country level; supporting national development priorities; and focusing on achieving reaching the MDGs.   Despite these goals, however, the efforts to improve donor funding harmonization, alignment, and coordination have been less than optimal in many Africa countries.

This session will discuss how aid harmonization, alignment, and coordination can be improved in developing countries generally and in particular within the African context. The session will be based on experiences and challenges that have taken place in several African countries, namely Malawi, Kenya and Zimbabwe.

Chair: Nora Honkaniemi, Advocacy officer EURODAD

Speakers: Vitalice Meja, Coordinator Reality of Aid Africa Network

Barbara Lee, Manager, Aid Effectiveness Team, WB

OECD Representative (TBC)

Time: 11:00am - 12:30pm

Location: MC C1-200

Reality of Aid, World Bank

Held in Reserve: Can a new approach to monetary policy transform the global economic outlook?

There has been heated discussion over the huge reserves stockpiled by emerging market economies since the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, and their links to global imbalances. Distrust of the IMF is often cited as the major reason these countries have sought to insure themselves against future crises.

This roundtable discussion, building on a discussion paper drafted for the occasion, will consider the options for reform and what proposals should be taken up at the G20.  President Sarkozy of France, host of the G20 in 2011, has pledged to make this a central agenda item.

Chair: Soren Ambrose, ActionAid International

Speakers: Isabelle Mateos y Lago, IMF

Jose Antonio Ocampo, Columbia University

Stephany Griffith-Jones, Columbia University/Initiative for Policy Dialogue

Time: 11:00am - 2:00pm

Location: Lombardy Hotel – 2019 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.

Action Aid International

Lunch will be served

RSVP to

Securing Africa’s Food Security: Land Purchases, Gender Inequality, and Private Sector Development

Speakers: Peter Jeranyama, President, AAAPD

Klaus Deininger, Lead Economist, WB

Bishop David Zac Niringiye, Chair, Uganda Governing Council of the Africa Peer Review Mechanism

Danielle-Mutone Smith, Women Thrive Worldwide

Antenneh Assefa, Bank of Abyssinia, Ethiopia

Time: 11:00am - 12:30pm

Location: MC C1-110

Association of African Agricultural Professionals in the Diaspora (AAAPD), World Bank

Safeguards and Sustainability Policies in a Changing World

Join the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) of the World Bank Group, Heinrich Boell Foundation, URGEWALD, and the Bank Information Center for a discussion and dialogue on safeguards and sustainability policies in the World Bank, IFC and MIGA. The discussion will build on a recent evaluation conducted by IEG that analyzes the effectiveness of the safeguards and sustainability policies put in place by the World Bank Group (WBG) to prevent or mitigate adverse impacts of its projects on people and the environment. Environmental and social safeguard policies and Performance Standards remain a cornerstone of the WBG's support for sustainable development and effectiveness of its operations.

Chair: Susanna Moorehead, United Kingdom ED

Speakers: Vinod Thomas, Director-General, Evaluation, World Bank Group

Anis A. Dani, Lead Evaluation Officer, IEG

Nancy Alexander, Heinrich Boell Foundation
Korinna Horta, URGEWALD
Vince McElhinny, Bank Information Center

Inger Andersen, WB Vice President for Social Development Network

Time: 11:30am - 1:00pm

Location: MC C1-100

Independent Evaluation Group, Urgewald, Bank Information Center

Advancing Gender Equality: Priorities and Challenges for IDA 16

Gender is one of three special themes in IDA 16. Panelists will discuss mainstreaming gender into development. They will inspect gender issues from three different perspectives.

Chair: Ian Solomon

Speakers: Francesca Ricciardone: "Ensuring Equal Outcomes for Working Women"

Mayra Buvinic: "New Directions for Gender at the World Bank"

Liane Schalatek: "More than an add-on: the centrality of gender equity for climate and development solutions"

Time: 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Location: MC C1-200

Bank Information Center, World Bank

Food Sovereignty and Land Grabs in Africa

Making food available for all without damaging the environment is one of the most important global challenges for the 21st century. Using scarce land to grow fuel for cars leaves communities at risk and puts the planet in peril.

Please join us for this panel discussion on the right to food, access to land, and the power of communities to determine thier own future.

Chair: Emira Woods, Co-Director of IPS' Foreign Policy in Focus

Speakers: Mamadou Goita, Director of a Food Security Program in Bamako/Mali

Rachel Smolker, Biofuel Watch

Matt Kavanagh, Health Gap

Luis Sitoi, Embassy of Mozambique (invited).

Time: 12:30 - 2:00pm

Location:Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
1740 Massachusetts Ave., BOB 736

IPS' FPIF, Africa Action, Transafrica Forum

Briefing on IFC’s Asset Management Company

CEO Gavin Wilson will be on hand to give an overview of the AMC.  The AMC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of IFC investing third party capital in IFC projects. It enables outside investors to benefit from IFC's expertise as well as promoting positive development impact.

Time: 1:30pm - 2:30 pm

Location: MC C1-110

IFC

Effective strategies for creating jobs in developing countries with a booming youth population

Chair: Collins Magallasi, Director, AFRODAD, Zimbabwe

Speakers: Thomas Chataghalala Munthali, Director, ECAMA

Joseph Ibekwe, Executive Director Foundation for Leadership and Education Development, Nigeria

Kedar Khadka, Director, Good Governance & Anti-corruption Bureau, Nepal

Time: 2:00pm - 3:30pm

Location: MC C1-100

Economics Association of Malawi (ECAMA)

Community Perspectives on Free, Prior, Informed Consent

The panel will examine issues related to the right of indigenous peoples to free, prior and informed consent in the context of World Bank Group lending. Leaders from indigenous communities and civil society organizations will discuss the importance of free, prior informed consent to development and to indigenous communities, provide examples of how free, prior, informed consent can be implemented, and identify how free, prior informed consent differs from IFC's current broad community support standard.

Chair: Deena Hurwitz (Director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic and Human Rights Program at the University of Virginia Law School).

Speakers:

Ivan Bescope, Director of Centro de Estudios Juridicos, Bolivia

Fr. Edwin Gariquez, Executive Secretary, National Secretariat for Social Action Justice and Peace, Philippines

Louise Kavira, technical advisor at the Network of Indigenous Peoples Organizations for Sustainable Management of the Forest Ecosystems, DRC

Rodion Sulyandziga, Director of Center for Support of Indigenous Peoples of the North, Russia

Time: 2:00pm - 3:30pm

Location: MC 13-121

Center for International Environmental Law, Oxfam America, Bank Information Center

This session will have interpretation in English, French, Spanish and Arabic

Aid and accountability in health: Does effective aid lead to domestic accountability or can domestic accountability lead to effective aid?

The session will discuss the findings of a study commissioned by World Vision UK and undertaken by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). It examines aid and accountability through case studies in Uganda and Zambia, using the health sector as a lens. Despite considerable progress, poverty reduction and sustainable development remain major challenges for many countries. Aid is an important component in progress, but, in recent years, attention has been paid to some of the challenges to the effectiveness of aid.

There has also been a growing recognition of how aid can impact on, and be affected by, accountability, governance and politics in donor and recipient countries. But there is still a real gap in under¬standing about the relationship between aid effectiveness and accountability – and whether and how one can reinforce the other.  The policy session will allow for a presentation of the key findings of the study, followed by a discussion led by a panel of different stakeholders.

Chair: Gloria Ekpo, Health Sector Specialist, World Vision/US

Speakers: Leni Wild and Pilar Domingo, Research Fellows, Overseas
Development Institute /ODI

Collins Magalasi, Executive Director of the African Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD)

Besinati Mpepo, Child Health Manager, World Vision/UK

Time: 2:00pm - 3:30pm

Location: MC C1-200

World Vision International

REDD Strategy Session

Come discuss ongoing strategy in the management of the various REDD mechanisms.

Time: 4:00 - 5:30

Location: Friends of the Earth US office
1100 15th Street NW, 11th Floor

Bank Information Center

By invitation only

For more info, please contact Kate Horner

Civil Society Townhall Meeting

Messrs. Strauss-Kahn and Zoellick will host this townhall for CSO representatives accredited to the Annual Meetings. The session will include remarks by Messrs. Strauss-Kahn and Zoellick to be followed by a general discussion on issues of concern to CSO representatives

Speakers: Dominique Strauss-Kahn (Managing Director, IMF) and Robert B. Zoellick (President,WBG)

Time: 4:00pm - 5:30pm

Location: IMF HQ 2
Conference Hall 1

IMF / WBG

This session will have interpretation in English, French, Spanish and Arabic

Civil Society Reception

The reception will be hosted by Caroline Anstey (Vice President for External Affairs, World Bank) and Carolyn Atkinson (Director of the External Relations Department, IMF).

Time: 5:45pm - 7:00pm

Location: World Bank Main Complex, 12th Floor Gallery

IMF / WBG

IFC Sustainability Framework Review

IFC is hosting an update meeting with interested CSOs regarding IFC's Policy & Performance Standards Review and Update process.  This meeting will provide an overview of frequently asked questions and major recommendations arising from Phase II of the consultation process.  Next steps for Phase III of the PS Review and Update will also be covered.

Time: 9:00am - 10:00am

Location: IFC Building
2121 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Room L-109

IFC Policy Review Team

Civil Society Transparency Initiatives

Engaging citizens to demand transparency and accountability from public service providers is emerging as a powerful instrument in fighting corruption. Greater accountability, responsiveness to citizens, and transparency and honesty in the use of public resources is seen as critical to achieving improved development outcomes. It is also recognized that governance reform, to be sustainable, must come from internal pressures and cannot be successfully or sustainably imposed from the outside.

This session will focus on the “demand-side” of good governance and transparency, and  present the experiences and emerging lessons of PTF-supported projects in more than 40 countries. The PTF panelists will speak about worldwide experience in supporting citizen engagement to combat corruption, improve service delivery, and generate greater government accountability in developing countries. One of these experiences is Pro-Public in Nepal which will discuss the phenomena of ‘downward accountability deficit’ which has weakened decentralization efforts as well as democratic culture at the grassroots level.

Chair: Daniel Ritchie, Secretary, PTF

Speakers: Vinay Bhargava, Senior Technical Advisor, PTF

Kedar Khadka, Project Director, Pro Public, Nepal

Virginia Ifedreo, National Coordinator, Nigeria CSO Consultative Group

Time: 9:00am - 10:30am

Location: MC C1-200

Partnership for Transparency Fund

Energy: Poverty, Sustainability, and Climate Change

The World Bank is currently in the process of drafting its Energy Sector Strategy with the twin goals of improving access and reliability of energy services to the world’s poor and assisting in the transition to a low-carbon energy economy. With consideration of the expected finalization date of the World Bank’s Energy Strategy by its Board of Directors on July 1, 2011, it is critical that all viewpoints be discussed and debated among relevant stakeholders to ensure the World Bank’s Energy Strategy promotes social and economic justice and ecological sustainability.  

Chair: Nicholas Ma, Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Speakers: Srinivas Krishnaswamy, the Vasudha Foundation - A Southern perspective on the World Bank Energy Strategy: Christian Aid Case Studies from India, South Africa, and Peru

Seno Alouka, Jeunes Voluntaires pour l’environment - Hydropower & the World Bank Energy Strategy

Anabella Rosemberg, ITCU - A Progressive Labor View on Energy

Time: 9:00am - 10:30am

Location: MC C1-100

Bank Information Center (BIC), International Rivers, Parliamentary Network on the World Bank (PNoWB)

MIGA Open House

This session will provide an opportunity for CSO representatives to meet with MIGA Senior Management and to discuss with them any issues of concern.

Time: 10:00am - 11:00am

Location: U Building, 1800 G Street 
Room U 12-400 

Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency

The Road to 2015: Africa Accessing Global Finance

As the countdown to the 2015 date for meeting the Millennium Development Goals begins, heads of states and governments across the globe have expressed deep concern that progress made so far falls short of what is need. At the heart of this problem is the need to mobilize and retain global capital flows. This is particularly true for many African Countries where domestic resources mobilization has proven to be inadequate in financing both investment and development needs. That clearly suggests that for most African economies, their economic difficulty on the road to 2015 is bound to grow in complexity and intensity, which explains why many of them are lagging behind or totally off track on the MDG’s drive.

Thankfully, some encouraging initiatives are emerging from Africa, its development partners, and the International business community to address these issues.  The challenge now is to strengthen these initiatives and crystallize them for effectiveness with a view to redirecting a major share of global investments, trade and capital flows, as well as development finance to Africa. The complexities involved here directly suggest that policy makers and business executives must work together and rethink the effectiveness of traditional instruments.  This session will focus on the following questions.  How can we come up with innovative financing mechanisms and make them work for Africa? How can African Businesses increase their participation in the global economic system? What is the way forward for Africa to access global finance?

Speakers: Donald Kaberuka, President, African Development Bank

Jean-Louis Ekra, President, African Export Import Bank

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria

Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, Chief Executive Officer, NEPAD

Bisi Onasanya, Group Managing Director/CEO First Bank of Nigeria

Emmanuel Nnadozie, Chief Economist, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

Time: 11:00am - 12:30pm

Location: MC C1-100

African Business Roundtable

IFC and Human Rights: the Path Forward

Part I: New Developments at the IFC

For many years, the World Bank Group (WBG) has considered human rights to be outside of its development mandate, on the grounds that this would interfere with the sovereignty of member governments. Human rights issues are not discussed openly, even though most of the WBG's member governments have ratified at least one human rights treaty.

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is currently revising its 2006 Environmental and Social Sustainability Framework to reflect changes in the world over the past five years. One major development in the international debate on business and human rights has been an emerging consensus that corporate actors have a responsibility to respect human rights in their operations. Many have also argued that the governments that sit on the IFC's Board of Directors cannot leave their human rights obligations behind when they act through multilateral institutions.

As part of its review process, the IFC is considering how to integrate human rights into its Sustainability Framework. The outcomes of this process remain unclear, as many governments on the IFC Board of Directors remain concerned about sovereignty issues. This panel will discuss the prospects and challenges for adopting a more explicit approach to human rights at the IFC, and suggest concrete ways to move forward.

Chair: David Hunter, Professor of Law, American University

Speakers: Rachel Kyte, Vice President, Business Advisory Services, IFC

Motoko Aizawa, Advisor, Corporate Standards, IFC

Audrey Gaughran, Director, Global Thematic Units, Amnesty International

Arvind Ganesan, Director, Business and Human Rights Program, Human Rights Watch

Amy Lehr, Attorney, Corporate Social Responsibility practice, Foley Hoag LLP

Andrea Repetto Vargas, Operations Analyst, IFC Compliance Advisor Ombudsman

Time: 11:00am - 12:30pm

Location: MC C1-200

Amnesty International, Bretton Woods Project, Center for International Environmental Law, Human Rights Watch, Indian Law Resource Center, International Accountability Project, World Resources Institute

Partnerships to Achieve the MDGs: How to Realize a Holistic Approach?

The session will focus on innovative approaches to achieve the MDGs by increasing links between non-traditional partners.  It will explore what governments are grappling with to achieve these goals, and how to look at them in a more holistic, and less disparate, way following the UNGA MDGs Summit.  Who needs to be involved in a more holistic vision of sustainable development?  How is it possible to weave the public and private sectors closer together?

Time: 11:00am - 12:30-pm

Location: MC C1- 110

The Nature Conservancy

Break the Chains, Transform the System: March for Economic Justice

Jubilee USA is mobilizing to demand an end to the World Bank and IMF’s harmful practices, which continue to hurt the world’s poorest.  Ten years after the historic movement to change the IMF and World Bank we’ve seen some progress – but it’s not enough.  We must transform the system!

To get involved email Brooke Harper at or visit out website at www.jubileeusa.org/mobilization

Time: 12:00pm

Location: Edward Murrow Park (In Front of the World Bank at 18th Street NW and H Street)

Jubilee USA

Transparency of Extractive Industry Agreements: the Role of Legislative and Civil Society Oversight

This panel will explore the role of parliaments and civil society in scrutinizing often convoluted and controversial oil, gas and mining agreements signed by the executive branch and companies with the support of the World Bank. The objective of the discussion is to explore ways public, acting through the elected legislators, can ensure that natural resources are prudently developed and terms of agreements are complied with.

Chair: Isabel Munilla, Publish What You Pay

Speakers: Susan Maples, The Vale Columbia Center for Sustainable International Investment, Columbia University - Global Access and Influence of Parliaments in Extractive Industry Contracts

Hon. Banyenzaki Henry, Member of Parliament, Uganda - A Case of Parliamentary Oversight in Natural Resource Extraction in Uganda

Alberto Barandiaran, Advisory Counsel of the Citizens Movement against Climate Change (MOCICC), Peru

Antoine Heuty, Deputy Director at Revenue Watch Institute

Time: 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Location: MC C1-200

The Vale Columbia Center for Sustainable International Investment, Columbia University, Bank Information Center

The 2008-09 Financial Crisis and Developing Countries: Is the Recovery Taking Hold?

The 2008-09 global economic crisis affected developing countries through a number of trade-related channels such as export prices and demand, exchange rate, access to credit for production and trade, debt sustainability levels and investment.  The crisis offers an opportunity to address deep-seated vulnerabilities in the way developing countries’ trade is linked to domestic and international financial structures.

The session will explore the following questions: How would the policy approach to key financial reform issues be affected by trade considerations? Does this differ from the ongoing agenda of the international financial institutions, the WTO, the G20 and the United Nations? If so, how?

Speakers: Aldo Caliari (Center of Concern)

Kiama Kaara (KENDREN)

Martin Tsonkeu, Development Economist, Development Interchange Network

Maria Jose Romero, Policy Advisor, European Network on Debt and Development

Time: 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Location: MC C1-100

Center of Concern

Transparency and Accountability in Public Climate Finance – What is done? What is needed?

Just months before the next Conference of Parties of the UN Climate Convention in Cancun, Mexico, various efforts have been made to track and account for climate financing pledges made in December 2009 at the climate talks in Copenhagen for fast-start finance and toward longer-term financing commitments.  The World Bank is likewise involved in efforts – such as via its support of the new Dutch Website initiative www.faststartfinance.org – to make transparent the financial flows from developed countries to developing countries for urgent climate action.

This panel will look at current ongoing efforts, by civil society, governments and international organizations such as the World Bank, to provide transparency and accountability in global climate finance flows. What has already been done? What more is needed to give different stakeholders, including civil society, the tools to hold both developed and developing countries accountable for their decisions on the mobilization, administration and disbursement of climate funds? What role could and should the World Bank play in data collection and standard setting?

Speakers: Srinivas Krishnaswamy, Director, Vasudha Foundation, India

Ari Huhtala, Senior Environmental Specialist, WB

Athena Ballesteros, Senior Associate, World Resources Institute

Time: 2:00pm - 3:30pm

Location: MC C1-100

WRI, Boell Foundation

Conflict, Fragility and Development: an exchange on the themes of the World Development Report 2011

Violence is now responsible for a major part of the global deficit in meeting the MDGs.  The next year's WDR looks at the changing nature of organized violence in the world today.  It also charts possible actions at the national and international levels to reduce the stresses that give rise to violence and support the institutions that provide the bulwark against these pressures.

This session will hear from WDR Director Sarah Cliffe who will outline the key messages of the report and from two representatives of NGOs who are active in fragile states: Sophie Havyarimana, Director of Acord, Burundi, and Yahya Saleh, Executive Director of Yemen Human Rights Observatory.

Time: 2:00pm - 3:30pm

Location: MC C1-200

World Bank

Update on IFC Agribusiness Activities

An overview of IFC's work in agribusiness, including recent consultations and strategy development.

Speaker: Mark Constantine, IFC Agribusiness Department

Time: 2:30pm - 3:30pm

Location: MC C1-110

IFC

Celebrating 10 Years of CAO Work

Speakers: Meg Taylor (IFC Compliance Advisor and Ombudsman)

Time: 4:00pm - 5:30pm

Location: MC C1-200

Compliance Advisor and Ombudsman

IMF Lending Conditions in Poor Countries in the wake of the Global Economic Crisis: A Help or Hindrance to Reaching the MDGs?

Speakers: Matthew Martin, Director, Development Finance International

Pamela Gomez, Policy Advisor, Oxfam International

Time: 4:00pm - 5:30pm

Location: MC C1-100

Oxfam

Financial Intermediary Lending: What can be accomplished? What are the major challenges?

What do institutions such as the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) seek to accomplish with lending to financial intermediaries? What are the potential environmental, social, and transparency concerns for various types of financial intermediary lending?  How is OPIC addressing these concerns in its new Environmental Policy?

Speakers: Roland Widmer, Program Coordinator, Friends of the Earth Amazonia, Brazil

Stephanie Fried, Executive Director, Ulu Foundation

Time: 4:00pm - 5:30pm

Location: MC C1-110

Center for International Environmental Law

Inspection Panel Open House

The Inspection Panel is the independent accountability mechanism of the World Bank.  The Panel invites all civil society representatives attending the Annual Meetings, and Bank Management and staff to its Open House in the Panel's offices. Please come and share your experiences and hear stories and anecdotes about Panel operations.

Time: 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Location: World Bank Main Building, (10th Floor), Room MC10-507

Inspection Panel

ED Advocacy Training

Participants in this workshop will learn winning tactics for advocating one’s cause with World Bank Executive Directors. Based on information gathered from international advocacy partners and former World Bank employees, this session will give you practical tools for influencing World Bank Executive Directors as they approve projects and make the policies of the Bank.

Participants will have the opportunity to present their own advocacy stories, positive and negative. Time will be provided to strategize about agendas for meeting with EDs, and participants can also participate in a role-play of a meeting with EDs.

This forum will include examples of meeting agendas, campaign strategies, ways to obtain information, and written communication.

Time: 9:00am - 11:00am

Location: World Resources Institute
10 G Street, NE (Suite 800)

Bank Information Center

Feasibility and impact of an FTT: Discussion on IMF paper "Taxing Financial Transactions"

The IMF has released a working paper, "Taxing Financial Transactions: Issues and Evidence", that describes existing financial transactions taxes (FTTs); analyses the feasibility of a broad-based FTT that some governments and many CSOs have advocated; and examines their economic impact.

The IMF panelist will present a summary of the paper's findings and the two other panelists will present their views on what the paper got right or wrong and what further research on the design and impact of FTTs is required.

Chair: Sarah Anderson, IPS

Speakers: Robert Pollin, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts,

Peter Bakvis ITUC/Global Unions

Time: 9:00am - 10:30am

Location: MC C1-200

ITUC

Consultation on the World Bank's Education Sector Strategy 2020

Please join us for a presentation and discussion of the Bank's new draft education sector strategy covering the next 10 years.  The draft incorporates feedback from the first round of global consultations on the strategy. 

This session will be an opportunity to learn about the proposed directions and outcomes and to share additional perspectives before the strategy is finalized later this year. 

Chair: Carolyn Reynolds, Senior Communications Officer, Human Development Network, WB

Speakers: Elizabeth King, Director of Education, WB

Time: 9:00am - 11:00am

Location: MC C1-100

World Bank

Issues of Faith in the Extractive Industry Sector

Many faiths have written about concerns associated with Extractive Industry operations. Many of these are associated with environmental issues but some reflect questions of social justice. This panel explores these issues.

Speakers: Fr. Edwin Gariguez SVD, Executive Secretary, NASSA the Philippines

Mr. Mamadou Goita, Executive Director, IRPAD Mali

Fr. Seamus Finn OMI, Director, Office of Peace and Integrity of Creation

Time: 11:00am - 12:30pm

Location: MC C1-100

World Faith Devt Dialogue and Oblates of Mary Immaculate

Briefing on Results Based Lending Reform

Time: 11:00am - 12:30pm

Location: MC C1-200

World Bank

Macroeconomic Policy: What are the Global Trends

As weaknesses appear in the global economic recovery, there is increasing debate over whether governments should continue, or in some cases even increase stimulus spending, or begin reducing their deficits and public debt.

This session will look at this issue in the context of current policy in both developed and developing countries, taking into account the different circumstances – e.g. current levels of public debt and deficit, and the strength or weakness of the economy. The session will focus on the following question: is macro-economic policy, worldwide, generally moving in the right direction?

Speakers: Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director, CEPR

John Lipsky, IMF First Deputy Managing Director

Deborah James, Director of International Programs, CEPR

Time: 2:00pm - 3:30pm

Location: MC C1-100

Center for Economic and Policy Research

Enabling Good Governance in the MENA NGO Sector 

Chair: Najat Yamouri, Senior Communications Officer, WB

Speakers: Ghassan Kasabreh, Director, NGO Development Center, Palestine

Yahya Saleh, Yemen Observatory for Human Rights

Tourya Lahrech, Program Coordinator, Democratic Confederation of Labor, Morocco

Amy Ekdawi, Program Manager, Bank Information Center

Vinay Barghava, Director, Partnership for Transparency Fund

Ibrahim Makram, Director, Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services

Time: 2:00pm - 3:30pm

Location: MC C1-200

NGO Development Center, BIC, WB

How to deal with the next sovereign debt crisis

Through the global financial crisis countries as different as Eurozone members, Carribbean small island states, and post completion point HIPCs have been facing new risks to their external and public debt sustainability. While creditor profiles in many countries have become more and more complex for many sovereign debtors, the available debt workout procedures have not.  Instead, the IFIs have concentrated work on improved frameworks for assessing debt sustainability through the Debt Sustainability Framework, which is not much of a remedy once debt has become unsustainable.

Academics, civil society organizations, and some intergovernmental institutions have continued to work on mechanisms which address the shortcomings of present debt management procedures in order to be better prepared, once the next crisis forces individual debtor countries into default. Proposals for a fair, comprehensive, and impartial debt workout process have been the result, and have found support from some creditor country governments such as Norway and Germany. 

This session will focus on the study “Resolving Sovereign Debt Crises: Towards a Fair and Transparent International Insolvency Framework” carried out by erlassjahr.de and Friedrich Ebert Foundation.  The panel, composed by CSO representatives from the US, Europe, and Africa, will analyze the report findings and reflect on the political process for global debt management reform.

Speakers: Sara Burke, Policy Analyst, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Jürgen Kaiser, Policy Coordinator, erlassjahr.de

Collins Magalasi, Executive Director AFRODAD

Melinda St. Louis, Deputy Director, Jubilee USA

Nuria Molina, Executive Director, EURODAD

Time: 4:00pm - 5:30pm

Location: MC C1-110

Friedrich Ebert Foundation, erlassjahr.de (Jubilee Germany), JubileeUSA

Governing Global Finance

Speakers: Jo Marie Griesgraber, Excutive Director, New Rules

Domenico Lombardi, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

Ron Blackwell, Chief Economist, AFL-CIO

Matthew Martin, Director, Development Finance International

Time: 4:00pm - 5:30pm

Location: TBA

New Rules of Global Finance, Development Finance International

Education of Public Leadership from Developing Countries on Public Finance Literacy

There is a critical gap in knowledge about public finance in most developing countries.  Most public leaders emerge without little exposure and expertise about public finance. So they often take uninformed decision on major policy matters. In the process, they not only loose legitimacy but also contribute to stifling growth in their respective countries. Over and above rent seeking and leakage, public projects have reached a scandalous proportion. 

This session will explore ideas and solutions towards developing literacy for elected leaders on public finance.

Speakers: Duncan Okello, Executive Director, Society for International Development, Kenya

Christian Mounzeo, Coordinator, Publish What you Pay, Republic of Congo

Dian Kartikasari, Secretary General, Koalisi Perempuan Indonesia

Ibrahim Makram, Director, Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services, Egypt

Shaibal Gupta, Director, ADRI, India

Time: 4:00pm - 5:30pm

Location: MC C1-200

Asian Development Research Institute (ADRI), World Bank