Thursday, April 10 Welcome Breakfast and Introduction to the Civil Society Forum and Spring Meetings NGO/CSO Meeting with the World Bank Inspection Panel Structural Conditionalities in the IMF: A Discussion Between the IMF, IEO, and CSOs Implementing the Governance and Anti-Corruption Strategy at the Country Level Is There Scope for Civil Society Participation in Bank Training Programs? Development Results Measurement at IFC Examination of the Use of Country Systems to Address Environmental and Social Safeguard Issues IFC and IDA: A Briefing for Civil Society Policy Briefing on Spring Meetings Agenda and Other Issues Reception with World Bank Group President and IMF Managing Director Friday, April 11 Briefing on Bank Group's Six Strategic Themes Panel Discussion and Launch of the IEG Study on Financing Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises through Financial Intermediaries Project-Level Development Impact Reporting and Grievance Mechanisms: 2008 Advisory Work by the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (CAO) Macroeconomic and Fiscal Consequences of Climate Change and Policies to Address It Briefing Session on IFC and Extractive Industries Reviewing the Bank's Civil Society Engagement and Consultation Approaches The Right to Development in a Climate Constrained World? A Presentation of the Greenhouse Development Rights Framework A Dialogue with Lars Thunell, Executive Vice President and CEO, IFC Ways to Bridge Gender Gaps World Bank Group Climate Change Strategic Framework
Structural Conditionalities in the IMF: A Discussion Between the IMF, IEO, and CSOs April 10, 2008 Panelists: Ruben Lamdany (Independent Evaluation Office), Juan Zalduendo (IMF), Lucy Hayes (EURODAD), Respondent: Peter Chowla (Bretton Woods Project), Chair: Bhumika Muchhala, Bank Information Center
Implementing the Governance and Anti-Corruption Strategy at the Country Level April 10, 2008 Panel: Sanjay Pradhan (World Bank), Christian Poortman (Transparency International), Peter Harrold (World Bank), Collins Magalasi, (Action Aid), Nancy Boswell (Transparency International) Chair
Is There Scope for Civil Society Participation in Bank Training Programs? April 10, 2008 Panel: Meg Kinghorn (World Learning), John Garrison (World Bank), and Preeti Shroff-Mehta (World Learning)
Examination of the Use of Country Systems to Address Environmental and Social Safeguard Issues April 10, 2008 Panel: Anne Perrault (Center for International Environmental Law), Bruce Jenkins (Bank Information Center), Stephen Lintner and Harvey Hiimberg (World Bank)
IFC and IDA: A Briefing for Civil Society April 10, 2008 Panelists: Nigel Twose, (Director, IDA/IFC Secretariat) and Akihiko Nishio, (Director, Resource Mobilization Department, World Bank)
Policy Briefing on Spring Meetings Agenda and Other Issues April 10, 2008 Speakers: Marwan Muasher (World Bank Group Senior Vice President for External Affairs), and Masood Ahmed (Director, External Relations Department, International Monetary Fund) Chair: Sylvain Browa (Senior Manager, Partnership and Development Impact, InterAction).
Reception with World Bank Group President and IMF Managing Director April 10, 2008 Speakers: Robert B. Zoellick (World Bank Group President), and Dominique Strauss-Kahn (International Monetary Fund Managing Director) introduced by Andrew Kumbatira (Executive Director, Malawi Economic Justice Network)
Briefing on Bank Group's Six Strategic Themes April 11, 2008 Panel: Obiageli Katryn Ezekwesili (Vice President for Africa), Hans-Martin Boehmer (Controller, Strategy, and Resource Management), Nadir Mohammed (Middle East Region), Markus Kostner (Operations Policies and Country Services Network), Jan Weetjens (Human Development Department)
Project-Level Development Impact Reporting and Grievance Mechanisms: 2008 Advisory Work by the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (CAO) April 11, 2008 Panel: Meg Taylor (Vice-President and CAO); Amar Inamdar (Principal Specialist, Ombudsman); and Henrik Linders (Senior Specialist, Compliance)
Macroeconomic and Fiscal Consequences of Climate Change and Policies to Address It April 11, 2008 Panel: Michael Keen (Advisor, IMF Fiscal Affairs Department) and Natalia Tamirisa (Deputy Division Chief, IMF Research Department), Moderator: Erich Vogt (Senior Multilateral Policy Advisor, International Union for the Conservation of Nature - IUCN)
Reviewing the Bank's Civil Society Engagement and Consultation Approaches April 11, 2008 Panel: Edith Grace Ssempala (Director, International Affairs Department), Jeff Thindwa (Civil Society Team), Edith Wilson (External Affairs)
The Right to Development in a Climate Constrained World? A Presentation of the Greenhouse Development Rights Framework April 11, 2008 Panel: Tom Athanasiou (EcoEquity), Amar Bhattacharya (G 24 Secretariat), Kseniya Lvovsky (World Bank), Liane Schalatek (Heinrich Boell Foundation North America - Moderator)
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