During the 2007 high-level segment ECOSOC will hold its first the Annual Ministerial Review (AMR) and launch the Development Cooperation Forum (DCF) - two new functions mandated by world leaders at the 2005 World Summit to step up implementation of the United Nations development agenda. In addition, the high-level segment will feature the traditional dialogue with the international monetary and trade organizations and a thematic discussion. The segment is designed to facilitate a high degree of interaction among Member States and between Member States, United Nations organizations and other stakeholders from civil society, including the private sector, NGOs and academia. A series of roundtable dialogues and panel discussions, clustered around the themes of the High-level Segment and organized in close collaboration with organizations of the UN system, will take place throughout the segment.

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Opening Session	Mrs. Lara Hussein, WFO Vice President for Family Policy, Dr. Deisi Kusztra, WFO President and Mme. Saida Agrebi, WFO Vice President for Communication and Public Relations	Mr. Amr Moussa, Arab League Secretary General,Dr. Deisi Kusztra, WFO President and Mme. Saida Agrebi, WFO Vice President for Communication and Public Relations

 

Key events of the 2007 high-level segment are the following:

• The AMR will focus on “Strengthening efforts to eradicate poverty and hunger, including through the global partnership for development”. It will provide the opportunity for participants to learn from policymakers, practitioners and academics about strategies and approaches to effectively reduce poverty and exchange lessons learned about overcoming the obstacles encountered in implementing national development strategies.
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  The official launch of the DCF will bring together a wide array of development partners in order to engage in a dialogue on the coherence and effectiveness of international development cooperation. As part of the global partnership for development, the Forum will serve as a milestone in preparing for the first biennial DCF in 2008 by discussing key trends and challenges to enhancing the quality and the impact of development cooperation.
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  The thematic discussion will address how to “Strengthen efforts at all levels to promote pro-poor sustained economic growth, including through equitable macro-economic policies” during two high-level roundtables and a general debate.
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  The high-level policy dialogue with the executive heads of the international financial and trade institutions will discuss current developments in the world economy.
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  An Innovation Fair on the theme “Innovation and Transformation for Eradication of Poverty and Hunger” will be held on the margins of the High-level Segment. The objective of the Innovation Fair is for the private sector, foundations, other civil society organizations and the UN system to share examples of innovative products, approaches or practices, and to disseminate them more widely to Member States and other entities. The overall aim is to help raise the awareness of policy-makers at all levels, civil society actors, and the public at large, to potential solutions for helping to advance the overall objective of eradicating poverty and hunger, and to promote the transfer/sharing of knowledge, expertise and experience through networking and peer-to-peer learning.

Opening of the High-Level segment.

Opening address
Dalius Cekuolis, President of ECOSOC.

Address
Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations
Sheikha Haya.

Key note addresses on the theme “the eradication of poverty and hunger”

Micheline Calmy-Rey, President, Swiss Confederation and Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs

Gediminas Kirkilas, Prime Minister of Lithuania

Queen Rania Al-Abdullah, Queen of Jordan (tbc)

Abdou Diouf, Secretary-General, la Francophonie (tbc)

High-Level Policy Dialogue on current developments in the world economy and international economic cooperation

Moderator: Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary-General, UNDESA

Panelists: Supachai Panitchpakdi, Secretary-General, UNCTAD, Pascal Lamy, Director-General, World Trade

Organization: Murilo Portugal, Deputy Managing

Director: International Monetary Fund
François Bourguinon, Senior Vice President, Chief Economist, World Bank

“Strengthening efforts at all levels to promote pro-poor sustained economic growth, including through equitable macro-economic policies”

Roundtables (parallel)

1. Growth, poverty reduction and equity - emerging paradigm

Moderator: Kemal Dervis, Administrator, UNDP

Participants: Kwadwo-Baah Wiredu, Minister of Finance and
Economic Planning, Ghana (tbc);
François Bourguignon, Chief Economist, World
Bank
Jayati Ghosh, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru
University

2. Coherence and coordination of macroeconomic policies at all levels

Moderator: Jomo K.S., Assistant Secretary-General for
Economic Development, UNDESA

Participants: Minister from Portugal (tbc);
Murilo Portugal, Deputy Managing Director, IMF
Ana Maria Carrasquilla, Chairperson, Latin
American Reserve Fund

Informal high-level roundtable on “Emerging challenges to efforts to eradicate poverty and hunger”

Moderator: Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary-General, UNDESA

Participants: Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairperson,
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Cherif Rahmani, President of the World Deserts
Foundation, Algeria

Michel Kazatchkine, Executive Director, The
Global Fund

Nick Rance, TVE

Ministerial roundtable breakfasts*

• “Poverty reduction: how entrepreneurship can make it
happen”, hosted by UNCTAD/US Mission

• “Overcoming poverty through productive employment and decent work for income generation in LDCs” hosted by
ILO/OHRLLS

Annual Ministerial Review: “Strengthening efforts to eradicate poverty and hunger, including through the global partnership for development”

Introduction of the report of the Secretary-General
Keynote addresses

National voluntary presentations:

• Bangladesh
• Barbados

Annual Ministerial Review: “Strengthening efforts to eradicate poverty and hunger, including through the global partnership for development”

National voluntary presentations (continued)

• Ethiopia
• Ghana

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• Cambodia
• Cape Verde

Ministerial roundtable breakfasts *

• “Sustaining pro-poor generation of wealth, food security and peace through sustainable forest management: Global
commitments and regional innovations” hosted by UNFF and OSAA

• “Food, nutrition and agriculture: Working together to end
hunger” hosted by FAO/IFAD/WFP

• “Land Policy in Africa: securing rights, enhancing productivity and improving livelihoods”, hosted by the International Land Coalition (ILC), ECA and AU

Roundtables (parallel)

1. Ending the cycle of food crises: a home-grown green revolution in Africa

Co-Chairs: Victor Borges, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cape Verde (tbc)

David Hacharik, Deputy Director-General, FAO

Moderator: Kanayo Nwanze, Vice President, IFAD

Panelists: Kipruto Rono Arap Kirwa, Minister of
Agriculture, Kenya (tbc)

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Kwadwo-Baah Wiredu, Minister of Finance and
Economic Planning, Ghana (tbc)

Firmino Mucavele, Executive Head, NEPAD

Abdoulie Janneh, Executive Secretary, Economic
Commission for Africa;

Ndiogou Fall, Representative of Reseaux des
Organisations Paysannes et Producteurs Agricoles
de l’Afrique de L’Ouest (tbc)

Lead discussant: Jeffrey Sachs, Adviser to the Secretary General on the MDGs

2. Poverty eradication – making it happen

Chair: Alberto G. Romulo, Secretary of Foreign Affairs,
Phillippines (tbc)

Moderator: Juan Somavia, Director-General, ILO

Panelists: Benjamin Radavidson, Minister of Finance and
Budget, Madagascar (tbc)
Iftekhar Chowdhury, Honorable Advisor for
Foreign Affairs, Bangladesh (tbc)
Carmen Alcoraza, Deputy Minister of Public
Investment and Financing, Bolivia
Leire Pajín, State Secretary of International
Cooperation, Spain
Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, Chairman, Anglo
American plc
Jane Nelson, Director, Corporate Social
Responsibility Initiative, Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University

Lead discussant: Kwesi Botchwey, Professor of Practice of
Development Economics, The Fletcher School,
Tufts University and Member of the Committee
for Development Policy

Ministerial roundtable breakfasts*

• “Strengthening education’s role in poverty eradication: Challenges of quality, access and equity” hosted by UNESCO

• “Women’s participation in poverty alleviation and sustained economic growth, including through the initiatives of migrant women” hosted by IOM/UNFPA/OSAGI

• “Innovative business solutions for poverty reduction” hosted
by UNDP Official Launch of the Development Cooperation Forum

Plenary session

Opening remarks

Dalius Cekuolis, President of ECOSOC
Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations

Statements from interest groups

Roundtables (parallel)

1. Promoting greater coherence among development activities of different development partners: the role of national aid coordination and management

Moderator: Abdoulie Janneh, Executive Secretary, Economic
Commission for Africa.

Panelists: Zakia Meghji, Minister of Finance, Tanzania (tbc)

Kemal Dervis, Chair, UN Development Group
and Administrator, UNDP

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¹ The main background document for the two roundtables will be a Conference Room Paper that builds on the
report of the Vienna High-Level Symposium that took place on 19-20 April 2007 as well as brief notes (1-2
pages) on each theme respectively.

Le Hoai Trung, Director-General, International
Organizations Department, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, Vietnam

Julian Lob-Levyt, Chief Executive Officer, GAVI
Alliance, Geneva

Lead discussant²: Irene Freudenschuss-Reichl, Director-General, Department for Development Cooperation,
Federal Ministry for European and International
Affairs, Austria

2. Review of trends in international development cooperation: South-South and triangular cooperation³

Moderator: Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary-General, UNDESA

Panelists: Munir Akram, Ambassador and Permanent
Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations
and Chair, Group of 77 and China

Richard Manning, Chair, OECD/DAC
Supachai Panitchpakdi, Secretary-General,
UNCTAD

Björn Stigson, President, World Business Council
for Sustainable Development, Geneva

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Informal policy dialogues (parallel) (working lunch)

(a) “Strengthening national capacities and leadership in the partnership with donors”

High-level officials responsible for development cooperation in developed and developing countries (by invitation)

Moderator: Walter Fust, Director-General, Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation

Lead discussants: Victor Bernando, Vice-Minister, Ministry of Planning and Development, Mozambique

Will present the key policy messages emanating from the Vienna High-Level Symposium (19-20 April 2007). Organized in partnership with the Special Unit for South-South Cooperation - UNDP. A brief background note (1-2 pages) on selected issues will be prepared to facilitate focused discussions in the
two dialogue sessions.

Jean-Louis Schiltz, Minister for Development
Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs,
Luxembourg (tbc)

(b) “The role of civil society, legislative bodies and other stakeholders in promoting improved aid quality, including monitoring and reporting on results” (by
invitation)

Moderator: Firmino Mucavele, Executive Head, NEPAD

Lead discussants: Ramesh Singh, Chief Executive, Action Aid International Parliamentarian (to be identified in cooperation with IPU) (tbc)

Stakeholder forum

“How can the DCF promote enhanced oversight of aid commitments and aid effectiveness for the realization of the IADGs?”

Moderator: (tbc)

Panelists: John Rwangombwa, Secretary-General and
Secretary of the Treasury, Ministry of Finance and
Economic Planning, Rwanda

Bruce Jenks, Assistant-Secretary-General, Bureau
for Resources and Strategic Partnerships, UNDP

Kumi Naidoo, Chief Executive Officer, CIVICUS
- World Alliance for Citizen Participation

Carlos Braga, Head, International Policy and
Partnership Group, World Bank