ADB's 41st Annual Governors' Meeting
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Inside Panels

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Event

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Resource Speakers  

May 3
8:00-10:00 AM

 

Room 105
North Convention Center

 

ADB – CSO Open Forum:  

Open Forum on ADB-Civil Society Cooperation
Meeting with ADB Senior Staff on Accountability, Anticorruption, Audit, and Evaluation ADB

Lead: NGO Forum on ADB

 

Philip Daltrop, ADB Auditor General,

Satish Rao, Director General, ADB Operations Evaluation Department,

Augustinus Rumansara, Chair of the ADB Compliance Review Panel,

Robert May, ADB Special Project Facilitator

(Moderator to be Determined)

*May 3
10:30-11:30 AM 

Room 106
North Convention Center

Senior Official’s Meeting with CSOs  

 

ADB

ADB President and Senior Officials

May 3
1:30-3:15 PM

Room 105
North Convention Center

 

Core Labor Standards Panel:  

Exploring Best Practices to Mainstream Core Labor Standards

Lead: Public Services International (PSI)

 

 
 

May 4
2:00-4:00 PM

 

 

Room 105
North Convention Center

Safeguards Panel:  

Why the ADB Must Retain and Strengthen Its Mandatory Safeguard Policies

 

Lead: Oxfam Australia

Nessim Ahmad (ADB Environment and Social Safeguards Department Director)

ADB Executive Director or Government Representative (for confirmation)

NGO Representative – Macro Perspective (for confirmation )

Southern NGO Representative

Affected Person from Current Safeguards Case (for confirmation)

Ted Downing, Research Professor of Social Development, University of Arizona (for confirmation) 

Michael Simon, Oxfam Australia (Moderator)

 

May 5

2:30-4:30 PM

 

Room 115 – 116

North Convention Center

Energy Panel:

 

Promoting Real Alternatives or False Solutions: Long-Term Energy Imperatives in Asia and the ADB (A panel discussion on the ADB’s energy lending and its impact on developing Asia)

 

 

Lead: NGO Forum and Friends of the Earth International

 

Seethapathy Chander (Deputy Director General, ADB Private Sector Operations Department)

 

Jose Luis Garcia Ortega, Greenpeace Spain

 

Longgena Ginting (Friends of the Earth International)

 

Natalia Ablova (Bureau of Human Rights and Rule of Law – Kyrgyz Republic)

 

Ren 21 (for confirmation)

 

Michale Simon, Oxfam Australia (Moderator)

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Solidarity Dialogue and Forum: Asia and Spain
May 5, 2008   5:30 - 9:45 pm
School of Labor Relations, UCM Street, San Bernardo, 49 Meter: Noviciado, Bus 147, Madrid, Spain

P R O G R A M

Moderators - Lidy Nacpil and Tom Kucharz

Opening Introductions - by the moderators - 5 minutes
Why the Dialogue / Forum in being held; who are the Organizers, What would be the methodology; Logistical information (translation) . Note - if the audience is not so large we can also include individual introductions

Overview on the IFIs and the ADB - 15 minutes

Speakers
Hemantha Withanage - Executive Director, NGO Forum on the ADB
Ramón Fernández Durán, Ecologistas en Acción c/o Tom  (Ramon not sure yet, if he does not say yes, we don't get a replacement)

While the dialogue/forum is NOT just on ADB issues - we will take this opportunity to give an overview - taking off from the fact that the Asians are in Madrid because of the ADB AGM. If there is a significant number of people in the audience who are not familiar with the ADB or IFIs in general - this should be a helpful general introduction as well as a brief update on current issues in the ADB. If the audience are generally very familiar with IFIs, then this can be a more focused and in-depth discussion of ADB. Thus the speakers should prepare for either scenario. The presentations should also include a discussion on the role of the Spanish government in ADB.

Main Panels: Common Issues and Struggles

PRIVATIZATION of WATER & POWER SERVICES-40 min, including 5 min for 1 or 2 questions

Speakers will give an overview of how privatization of essential services is unfolding in Asia and in Spain/Europe, and the key players involved.  Asian speaker will touch on the role of the ADB (financing, technical support, conditionalities etc). The discussion will also point to how the same MNCs  are operating in Europe and Asia. It should also include Spanish MNCs operating in Asia.

  • Willy D' Costa, Indian Social Action Forum India (Water Services) 10 min inc. translation
  • Fabby Tumiwa, Insitute for Essential Services Reform Indonesia (Power Services) 10 min inc. translation
  • Annie Joh - SETEM  10 min inc. translation
  • Gonzalo Marín, ISF  10 min inc. translation

 

 ILLEGITIMATE DEBT and AID ISSUES - 45 min, including 5 min for 1 or 2 questions

 

This will be an exchange on debt and aid issues and struggles. There is now an South-North International Campaign on Illegitimate Debt, and speakers from both Asia and Spain will discuss the issue the campaign is addressing, the calls and recent developments.  Discussion will include examples of illegitimate Debt that involves the ADB.

 

There is also currently an international process on the issue of "AID EFFECTIVENESS" and Spanish Groups are involved so this session will also include this issue.

  • Milo Tanchuling, Freedom from Debt Coalition Philippines - 10 min including translation
  • Natalia Ablova, Human Rights Bureau, Kyrgyzstan -   10 min including translation
  •  Iolanda Fresnillo, ODG  Observatorio de la Deuda en la Globalización - Campaña ¿Quién debe a quién?-- 10 minutes inc. translation
  • On Aid Effectiveness - maybe Marcos de Castro  (or he may choose to speak in the Trade panel) c/o Paulina - 10 minutes including translation

 

CLIMATE CHANGE - 40 min, including 5 min for 1 or 2 questions

 

Speakers will focus on major issues and challenges being faced in Asia and in Spain/Europe in the struggles vs climate change.  Asian speaker will include, in the context of this discussion -briefing and update on ADB ENERGY POLICY. Both speakers will address the question - what can be common agendas in the immediate period (i.e. 2 ND Kyoto Commitment Period).

 

  • Longgena Ginting, Friends of the Earth International 10 min.  inc. translation
  • Daniel Mittler, Greenpeac e - 10 min.  inc. translation
  •  Spanish c/o Paulina  10 minutes including translation

8:00 PM - 20 MINUTE BREAK for ASIAN SNACKS and DRINKS

TRADE, FOOD SOVEREIGNTY, AGRICULTURE and LIVELIHOODS - 45 min, including 5 min open forum for 1 or 2 questions

 

This will be a discussion in the latest developments in the issue and struggles in the TRADE front (WTO and FTAs), relating it to struggles on Food Sovereignty, Agriculture and Livelihoods.  The Asian speaker should also include ADB's role in AID for TRADE, and other ADB policies promoting trade liberalization.

 

  • Ahmed Swapan, Voices for Interactive Choice and Empowerment,  Bangladesh 10 min including translation
  • Suranjan Kodithuwakku, Green Movement, Srilanka - 10 min including translation
  • Paul Nicholson of Via Campesina  or  COAG or Jose Bove - c/o Paulina 15 min including translation

 

WOMEN and GLOBALIZATION - 25 minutes including 5 min for 1 or 2 questions

This will be a discussion on women's campaigns and struggles in Asia and Spain - focusing on those addressing globalization issues. This discussion will also ensure that the women's perspective on the above issues will be articulated.

Speakers

  • Titi Soentoro, NADI, Indonesia 10 min including translation
  • Judith Carreras, Espacio Alternativo, Colectivo Feminista LILAS - 10 min including translation

Closing Summary - 10 minutes including translation
Ana Maria Nemenzo
Magali Thill o Mac de Acsur Las Segovias sobre el dialógo entre sociedad civil y Gobierno, y MMSS y ONGs.  c/o PAULINA - 5 minutes including translation

Also includes a Photo Exhibit on ‘Asian Women's Realities
The photo exhibit will feature the present situation of Asian women, women affected by ADB funded projects, and their struggles and resistance.

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