our worldour dignityour future
European Yearfor Development
2015
13.03.2015Hotel Metropole , Brussels
Brainstorming on challengesfor International Cooperationand Development
our worldour dignityour future
2015
European Year for Development
Meeting to be conducted under Chatham House rules Working language: English
AGENDA
8:30 - 9:00
Welcome coffee
9:00 - 9:03
Welcome by Commissioner Mimica
9:03 - 9:15
Introduction by the Moderator for the day on the functioning modalities of the Brainstorming - Ms Shada Islam, Director of Policy at Friends of Europe
9:15 - 10:45 THEME: Gender
Keynote speakers
• Prof. Gary Barker
Phd, leading voice on engaging men and boys in achieving gender equality and ending violence against women and International Director and Founder of Promundo (international NGO that promotes gender justice).
• Prof. Sylvia Walby
Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University and UNESCO Chair on Gender Research.
Questions to be addressed
• Why has there been such a slow progress on gender equality? • Does mainstreaming work? • What could be done better? • Are there any sector specic proposals: e.g. gender in agriculture, in good governance,
in energy, in the right to have property or to start a business etc.?
Open discussion10:45 - 11:15
Coffee break
11:15 - 13:00 THEME: Inequalities
Keynote speaker
• Ms. Claire Kumar
Development Consultant and Author of the report ‘Africa Rising: Inequalities and the essential role of fair taxation’.
Questions to be addressed
• Key ndings of the recently published report ‘Africa Rising: Inequalities and the essential role of fair taxation’ report. • Other forms of inequalities, apart from nancial, e.g. access to education, right to vote etc, and how development
cooperation should address these issues.
Open discussion13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
1 Hotel Metropole, Place de Brouckère 31, 1000 Brussel, Phone: 02 217 23 00
our worldour dignityour future
2015
European Year for Development
14:30 - 17:00 AFTERNOON SESSION - TWO THEMES: Security and Migration
Keynote speakers on Security• Dr. Nazila Ghanea
Associate Professor in International Human Rights Law, University of Oxford
• Prof. James Gow
Professor of International Peace and Security, Department of War Studies, King’s College, London
Questions to be addressed
• How to address marginalisation/radicalisation? • How to make social inclusion more eective? • The role of cultural diplomacy and better understanding between cultures? • The role of the media to promote peaceful societies?
Keynote speakers on Migration• Dr. Melissa Siegel
Head Migration Studies Training & Research Projects, Associate Professor Senior Researcher, Maastricht Graduate School of Governance UNU-MERIT
• Prof. Ivan Martín
Professor, Migration Policy Centre, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute - Florence
Questions to be addressed
• How do developments in the South eect migration to the North (and vice versa)? • How does the impact of South-South migration on development (positive and negative impacts,
ways to maximise the positive ones) manifest itself, trends and how development cooperation
should address these issues?
Open discussion
17:00 - 17:30 CONCLUSIONSDISCUSSANTS
• Mr. Jose Manuel Briosa e Gala
Special Advisor to Commissioner Mimica, European Commission
• Dr. Giovanni Grevi
Director, FRIDE, a European Think Tank for Global Action
• Dr. Patrick Guillaumont
President of Fondation pour les Etudes et Recherches sur le Développement International (Ferdi) and Emeritus Professor at the University of Auvergne
• Mr. Geert Laporte
Deputy Director of the European Centre for Development Policy Management
• Dr. Frank La Rue
ex UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, Nobel prize nominee
• Mr. Simon Maxwell
Senior Research Associate of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
• Prof. Dr Dirk Messner
Director, DIE (German Development Institute)
• Prof. Finn Tarp
Director of the UN University in Helsinki
• Dr. Kevin Watkins
Director, Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
13.03.2015 / Hotel Metropole , Brussels