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Annual Meetings 2004 Dialogues with CSOs
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  | 2004 World Bank Group and International Monetary FundÂ
Annual Meetings
Washington, DC, USA
Dialogues With Civil Society Organizations
September 29-October 6, 2004 |
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The civil society dialogue sessions were held in the Civil Society Space at the Annual Meetings (unless otherwise noted). Directions to the World Bank building. CSOs also had a workspace/conference room adjacent to the Press Room in the International Monetary Fund building.Â
|  September 29, Wednesday | | 4:00 - 5:00 pm         | What's on the Annual Meetings Agenda        Â
Gerry Rice, World Bank Media Director and Thomas Dawson, Director, External Relations Department at the International Monetary Fund talked about the program of the Annual Meetings and presented to the CSO participants the agendas of the Development Committee and the International Monetary and Financial Committee, as well as other papers and documents that were to be discussed.Â
Staff from the WB and IMF civil society teams discussed the program of CSO Policy Dialogues, Program of Seminars, press events, and other issues of interest to the CSOs.
| 5:00 - 6:30 pm
The World Bank
InfoShop
| Responsible Growth for the New Millennium: Publication Launch Panel Presentation
The new book by the World Bank stresses need for linkages between society, ecology, and economy.  By the year 2050, we could live either in a world of social conflict and environmental degradation – particularly if today’s income distribution, in which 80 percent of the world’s population earns only 20 percent of world income, is not made more equal – or in a world free of poverty, are the report findings. |
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|  September 30, Thursday | | 11:30 am - 1:15 pm   | The Reality of Aid: Launching the 2004 Report on Governance and Rights
The Reality of Aid Project is the only major north/south international non-government initiative focusing on analysis and lobbying for poverty eradication policies and practices in the international aid regime. It brings together more than 40 civil society networks working in the field of international cooperation in 22 donor countries, in Asia, the Americas, and Africa. Established in 1993, the initiative exists to promote national and international policies that will contribute to a new and effective strategy for poverty eradication, built on solidarity and equality. The session was coordinated by InterAction and CCIC.
| | 1:30 - 3:15 pm | The IMF role in Low-Income Countries (LICs)
A presentation of the latest developments on the work of the International Monetary Fund in LICs, by PDR staff, followed by a discussion with CSOs.
| | 3:30 - 5:30 pm | Breaking Poverty Cycles: Action in Childhood - Save the Children UK/Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre and WB Children and Youth team seminar. The strategic importance of investment in childhood as a critical period in life must be recognized and acted on by donors, governments and civil society alike. The seminar outlined what this action entails, backed up by evidence from Save the Children UK's Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre and programs in Tanzania, Vietnam and Honduras, and from the World Bank's own analysis.
| 6:15 - 7:45 pm    Â
| Town Hall Meeting with CSOs
James D. Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank; Rodrigo de Rato, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Trevor Manuel, Chairman of the Development Committee and Minister of Finance, South Africa, and Gordon Brown, Chairman of the International Monetary and Financial Committee and Chancellor of the Exchequer, United Kingdom responded to questions from representatives from civil society organizations. Webcast of the session and transcript are available. |
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| Â October 1, Friday | 8:30 - 10:00 am
| Program of Seminars  Open Session - Towards Second-Generation Reforms: Mainstreaming The Knowledge Economy Agenda Into the Policy Debate
The session familiarized policy-makers and private sector participants with how concepts such as "knowledge revolution" and "knowledge economy" are translated into a policy agenda in both the OECD economies and the developing world. It also aimed to outline the way forward for a second-generation reform agenda, in particular for life-long learning and innovation systems. Panelists: Eduardo Bitran, Chief Executive Officer, Fundación Chile; Jong-Kap Kim, Commissioner, Korean Intellectual Property Office; Jean-François Rischard, Vice-President for Europe, World Bank Group. Moderators: Frannie A. Leautier, Vice President, World Bank Institute; Danny Leipziger, Vice-President Designate, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Network, World Bank Group.
| | 9:00 - 10:30 am | Integrating HIV/AIDS Into Economic Policy Making
The HIV/AIDS epidemic is increasing poverty and depressing economic growth, and poverty in itself increases vulnerability to HIV. The IFIs have recognised the impact of the HIV epidemic on development in recent years, and enormously increased their support for HIV programmes. It is now necessary, in addition, to integrate HIV considerations into the mainstream of economic policy decisions. The session discussed three CSO studies presenting proposals for how this could be done. Speakers were from Christian Aid - Anna Thomas, Senior HIV/AIDS Policy Officer; ActionAid US - Rick Rowden, Policy Officer; and World Vision - Haidy Ear-Dupuy, Policy Advisor; as well as the World Bank - Sudhir Shetty, Manager for the PRSP Team, Jonathan Brown, Senior Health Advisor, Global AIDS Team; and from the IMF -  Godfrey Kalinga, Assistant Director, Africa region. The session was co-sponsored with Christian Aid. Summary of the discussion.
| 10:30 am - 12:00 pmÂ
The World Bank
| Program of Seminars  Open Session - How to Make Accountability Mechanisms Effective
In both the public and private sectors there is a need to ensure accountability. Within the last decade, innovative methods for doing so have emerged in many different institutions: international financial institutions, corporations, banks, governments, and academia. In all instances, important questions arise as to how to enhance the effectiveness of accountability measures such as safeguard policies, standing to bring complaints, and investigation protocols. Transparency is closely linked with accountability, but the effects of transparency upon accountability and its limits deserve close analysis. Panelists: Peter Eigen, Transparency International and Rajendra Pachuri, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Moderator: Edith Brown Weiss, Chair, The Inspection Panel, World Bank Group.
| 1:15 - 2:45 pm
The World Bank
| Program of Seminars  Open Session - The Millennium Development Goals For Health - Rising to the Challenges
The session reviewed progress to date and prospects for scaling up. It examined the constraints to faster progress and discusses policies to address them. It explored the roles and responsibilities of the development partners in rising to the challenge. The speakers were all involved in MDG policy, analysis and implementation, viewing the problem through different lenses and bringing different research, programmatic, equity, economic and development, country and global perspectives to this development priority. Panelists: Masood Ahmed, Director General, Policy and International, Department for International Development (DFID), United Kingdom; Robert L. Mallett, Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Pfizer Inc, USA; Adam Wagstaff, Lead Economist, Health, World Bank Group. Moderator: Jean Louis Sarbib, Senior Vice President and Head of Human Development Network, World Bank Group.
| 1:30 - 3:00 pm
| The HIPC Initiative, Debt Sustainability and Other Emerging Issues
World Bank and IMF staff discussed with CSOs the broad issues related to HIPC and debt sustainability. Speakers included: Alex Wilks, Eurodad, Jack Jones Zulu, Jubilee 2000 Zambia, Vikram Nehru, Debt Development Director, at the World Bank; and Mark Plant, Assistant Director, Policy Development and Review Department, IMF. Summary of the discussion
| 4:00- 5:00 pm
The IMF Auditorium | Program of Seminars  Open Session - Issues of Governance of the Bretton Woods Institutions
A panel of distinguished speakers focused on why little has been achieved in the discussion about the reform of the governance of the IMF and the World Bank. Panelists: D. C. Gupta, Finance Secretary, Ministry of Finance, India; Luiz Pereira da Silva, Secretary of International Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Brazil, Li Ruogu, Deputy Governor of the People's Bank of China; Charles Soludo, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria.  Moderator: Leo Van Houtven, President, The Per Jacobsson Foundation, International Monetary Fund. |
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| Â October 2, Saturday | | 9:30 - 11:00 am | Meeting with Staff of the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (CAO) for IFC and MIGA
The Office of the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (CAO) is an external accountability mechanism for IFC and MIGA. The meeting allowed CSOs interested in the work of the CAO to meet senior staff to discuss the CAO's complaints and compliance reviews. It was informal and allowed for discussion and debate between the CAO and participants and among participants themselves. The updated operational guidelines for the Ombudsman, now in seven languages, were available at the meeting. The CAO 2004 Annual Report was released at the meeting. The meeting was chaired by the VP/CAO - Meg Taylor. She was accompanied by Senior Specialists, Aidan Davy and Amar Inamdar.
| | 11:00 am - 1:00 pm  | Report Back on the EIR Process and Next Steps For Implementation
The discussion allowed for a follow-up discussion to the Extractive Industries Review process and a report back from the World Bank staff on the next steps for implementation of the recommendations and World Bank commitments. EIR Final World Bank Management Response. |
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|  October 4, Monday | 8:30 am - 12:00 pm Â
InterAction
  | Taking Stock of the PRSP Process and Looking Toward the Future
A forward looking discussion on PRSP included an overview of the WB/IMF managment response to issues raised in the Operations Evaluation Department (OED) report evaluating the PRSP process. Panelists included heads of the WB and IMF PRSP teams as well as CSOs. Co-sponsored with InterAction.  Details. Summary of the discussion.
| 10:00 am - 4:00 pmÂ
Park Hyatt Hotel | IFC discussion with CSOs on the update of its Environmental and Social Safeguard Policies ("Performance Standards") and the review of its Policy on Disclosure of Information
As a significant number of issues are encompassed under these reviews, IFC welcomeed agenda content and design suggestions from civil society participants. In addition, IFC staff was available for bilateral meetings with CSOs. Additional details. |
top |  October 5, Tuesday | | 3:00 - 4:00 pm         | Chad-Cameroon Pipeline: Discussion of Implementation Challenges
Discussion of some of the implementation challenges of the project and how these are being addressed. What lessons can be drawn from this project for broader Bank investments in extractive industries in Africa, and how will these be reflected in the Bank's newly fine tuned approach to the extractive sector.
| | 4:15 - 5:15 pm | World Bank in Democratic Republic of Congo
Discussion of the Bank's investment portfolio in the DRC, how the Bank's safeguard policies are being implemented to ensure both poverty reduction and environmental sustainability in the country.
| | 5:30 - 6:30 pm | Environmental and Electricity Issues in Cameroon
The session providedan opportunity to discuss the World Bank's involvement in the sector in Cameroon. |
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| Â October 6, Wednesday | 9:30 am - 12:00 pmÂ
| Revenue Transparency and the Role of Multilateral Development Institutions
Open discussion on revenue transparency accross the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Participants addressed the ways in which revenue transparency is addressed through the insitutions' public and private sector lending and advisory activities. |
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