2009 Spring Meetings - Photo Gallery

Thursday, April 23

Africa Food and Financial Crisis: World Bank, Government and CSO Responses
Reducing Vulnerability to Climate Change: World Bank and CSO Approaches
The Inspection Panel and Human Rights at the World Bank
Consultation Roundtable on IMF Transparency Policy 
Hunger and Malnutrition: Challenges and Solutions
The G20 Summit Outcomes and Implications for Developing Countries
Reception with WBG President and IMF Managing Director 

Friday, April 24 

How Effective is the World Bank’s Civil Society Engagement Strategy?
Evaluation Lessons in Unusual Times
Vulnerable Groups and Development Policies and Programs
CAO Compliance: Challenges to Enforcing Environmental and Social Due Diligence & Institutional 

Saturday, April 25 

Education on the Brink: Macroeconomic Policies' and Aid Flows' Impacts on Teachers
Does G20 Stimulus Signal the End of the DSF?
IMF Crisis Response – An Exchange
Consultation on Information Disclosure Review
Beyond The G20 Summit: The Future Of Financing For Development In Africa

Africa Food and Financial Crisis: World Bank, Government and CSO Responses
April 23, 2009
Panelists: CHAIR: Quentin Wodon (Adviser, WB), Shanta Devarajan (Chief Economist, Africa Region, WB), Giuseppe Zampaglione (Senior Operations Officer, WB), Bruce White (Policy Advisor, Catholic Relief Services), Andy Barnes (Director of Food Security, Food for the Hungry).

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Reducing Vulnerability to Climate Change: World Bank and CSO Approaches
April 23, 2009
Panelists: CHAIR: Phil Hay (Adviser, WB), Marianne Fay (Co-Director, World Development Report on Climate Change, WB), Harold Alderman (Adviser, WB), Douglas Brown (Climate Change Adaptation Specialist, World Vision), Byrd Dorrett (Director, Program Quality Support Department, Catholic Relief Services), Walter Grazer (National Religious Partnership for the Environment).

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The Inspection Panel and Human Rights at the World Bank
April 23, 2009
Panelist: Werner Kiene

Consultation Roundtable on IMF Transparency Policy 
April 23, 2009
Panelists: Tessa van der Willigen, Ulric Erickson von Allmen, (Strategy, Policy, and Review Department, IMF)

Hunger and Malnutrition: Challenges and Solutions
April 23, 2009
Panelists: CHAIR - Kim Hamilton (Senior Policy Advisor, Gates Foundation); John Hoddinott (Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI); Chris Shea (Senior Vice President,General Mills); David Kauck (Senior Policy Advisor, CARE); Eija Pehu (Science and Technology Advisor, WB)

The G20 Summit Outcomes and Implications for Developing Countries
April 23, 2009
Panelists:  Co-CHAIRs: Edith Ssempala (Director for International Affairs, WB), and Sam Worthington (CEO, InterAction); Ingrid Srinath (Secretary General of CIVICUS), Hugh Bredenkamp (Deputy Director, Strategy, Policy, and Review Department IMF), Alan Gelb (Director Economic Policy, WB), Antoinette Sayeh (Director, African Department, IMF), Kenroy Dowers (Manager, Financial Markets Group, IFC),

Reception with WBG President and IMF Managing Director
April 23, 2009
Robert B. Zoellick (WBG President), and Dominique Strauss-Kahn (IMF Managing Director) welcome CSOs in a reception that was moderated by....

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How Effective is the World Bank’s Civil Society Engagement Strategy?
April 24, 2009
Panelists: Chair Edith Grace Ssempala (International Relations Director, WB); Jeff Thindwa, John Garrison (Civil Society Team, WB) 

Evaluation Lessons in Unusual Times
April 24, 2009
Panelists: Vinod Thomas (Director General, IEG), Cheryl Gray (Director IEG), Marvin Taylor-Dormond ( Director, CEXEG)

Vulnerable Groups and Development Policies and Programs
April 24, 2009
Panelists: CHAIR: Quentin Wodon (Adviser, World Bank) , Biorn Maybury-Lewis (Dean of Academic Affairs, Digital Media Arts College), Harry Patrinos (Lead Economist, WB), Mohamed Arbi Ben-Achour (Lead Specialist, WB)

CAO Compliance: Challenges to Enforcing Environmental and Social Due Diligence & Institutional
April 24, 2009
Panelists: Meg Taylor, (Compliance Advisor, Ombudsman), Henrik Linders, (Senior Specialist, CAO)

Education on the Brink: Macroeconomic Policies' and Aid Flows' Impacts on Teachers
April 25, 2009
Panelists:Amy Gray, (IFI Policy Officer, GCE), Stephen Nock (Policy/Advocacy Adviser, VSO International), Soren Ambrose (Development Finance Coordinator, ActionAid International), Kouassi Soman (Senior Operations Officer, Education For All - Fast Track Initiative Secretariat), and Benjamin Kobina Osei (General Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers)

Does G20 Stimulus Signal the End of the DSF?
April 25, 2009
Panelists: CHAIR: Nuria Molina (Eurodad), Peter Lanzet (EED), Carlos Braga (World Bank), Vitalice Meja (AFRODAD), Herve Joly (IMF)

IMF Crisis Response – An Exchange
April 25, 2009
Panelists: Chair: Nuria Molina (Eurodad), Bhumika Muchhala (Third World Network), Christian Mumssen (IMF)

Consultation on Information Disclosure Review
April 25, 2009
Panelists: CHAIR: Sumir Lal (Head of Internal Communications, WB), Toby Mendel (Legal Council, Article 19), Peter Harrold (Director of Operations Service, WB)

Beyond The G20 Summit: The Future Of Financing For Development In Africa
April 25, 2009
Panelists: Donald Kaberuka (President, African Development Bank), Gabriel Suswan (Govenor of Benue State of Nigeria), Gregory Meeks (Chair, US House Sub Committee on International Monetary Policy and Trade)