8:30 – 9:45

Registration

9:30 –10:00

• Opening Session
• Welcoming remarks
• Mr. Jomo, K.S., UN-DESA
• Mr José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, ILO
• Opening statement by Mr. Donald Lee, UN-DESA, on the “Purpose and background of the meeting”

10:00 –11:00

Session 1 Taking Stock and Rethinking Poverty and Development

Facilitator: Mr. Yusuf Bangura, UNRISD

• Presentation by Mr. Jomo K.S., UN-DESA, on “Rethinking poverty: progress, measurement and policy prescriptions”
• Presentation by Mr. Augustin Fosu, UNU-WIDER, on “Growth, Inequality and Poverty Reduction: Latest Comparative Country Evidence”

11:00 – 11:30

BREAK

11:30 – 1:00

Interactive Discussion

1:00 – 2:30

LUNCH BREAK

5:30 – 7:00

Cocktail Reception - Espace Gobelins, hosted by the ILO

2:30 – 3:30

Session 2 Institutions, Governance and Poverty Reduction

Facilitator: Ms. Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, The New School, New York

• Presentation by Mr. Liu Minquan, Peking University, on “The role of the State vis-à-vis the market in poverty eradication”
• Presentation by Mr. Goran Hyden, University of Florida, on “Governance, development and poverty eradication”
• Presentation by Ms. Sarah Cook, UNRISD, on “Social institutions, social policies and redistributive measures for poverty reduction”

3:30 – 3:45

BREAK

3:45 – 5:30

Interactive Discussion

5:30

CLOSE

Day 2 – 21 June 2011

9:30 – 11:00

Session 3 Global crises and poverty: learning what works to reduce poverty

Facilitator: Mr. Donald Lee, UN-DESA

• Presentation by Mr. Rashid Amjad, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, on “Macroeconomic policies for poverty reduction: drawing lessons from the Washington Consensus - Post-Washington Consensus debate”
• Presentation by Ms. Magdalena Sepulveda, OHRC, on “Towards a human rights approach to recovery from the global economic crisis – focusing on people living in poverty and social exclusion”
• Presentation by Ms. Bettina Prato, IFAD, on “Agriculture, rural livelihoods and poverty eradication – policy lessons from the food price crisis”
• Presentation by Mr. Syed Nuruzzaman, UN-ESCAP on “Global crises and poverty eradication efforts in the least developed countries”

11:00 – 11:30

BREAK

11:30 – 1:00

Interactive Discussion

1:00 – 2:30

LUNCH BREAK

2:30 – 3:30

• Session 4 Transformational lessons: what works, why and how?

Facilitator: Mr. Nomaan Majid, ILO

• Presentation by Mr. Michael Cichon, ILO, on “Social protection and poverty alleviation”
• Presentation by Mr. Julian May, University of KwaZulu-Natal, on “Sustaining effective anti-poverty programmes: challenges and way forward”
• Presentation by Ms. Azita, Berar Awad , on “Growth, informal economy and poverty”

3:30 – 3:45

BREAK

3:45 – 5:30

Interactive Discussion

5:30

CLOSE

Day 3 – 22 June 2011

9:30 – 10:15

Session 5 Beyond the Millennium Development Goals

Facilitator: Mr. Jomo, UN-DESA

• Presentation by Ms. Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, The New School, on “Rethinking poverty eradication efforts post-2015”
• Presentation by Ms. Catherine Ferguson, NGO Committee for Social Development on “Enhancing the role of NGOs and civil society in poverty alleviation: challenges and opportunities”
• Presentation by Mr. Shantanu Mukherjee, UNDP, on “Policy implications of the potential long-term impacts of global crises on human development”

10:15 – 11:15

Interactive Discussion

11:15 – 12:30

Session 6 Closing Session

Policy Directions

• Presentation by Mr. Jomo, K.S.
• Concluding remarks by Mr. Donald Lee

12:30

Closing of the meeting