1 Pre-High Level Event Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 0800-1800 Participants Accreditation (at the Marriott, Sheraton and Forte Capital hotels) On-site Registration (at Forte Capital Hotel only) 0900-1200 HLE Steering Committee Meeting (closed meeting) 1400-1700 SEGIB: Iberoamerican Dialogue on South-South Cooperation: Preparation for the HLE (closed meeting) 1500-1800 UN Development Cooperation Forum ECOSOC Advisory Group Meeting (closed meeting) DAY 1 Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 0800 0900 On-site Registration (at Forte Capital Hotel only) 0900 1000 Welcome Address and Official Opening This session will set the context and share expectations of the Bogota High Level Event (HLE). - Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary-General, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations - Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Managing Director, World Bank - Alvaro Uribe Vélez, President of the Republic of Colombia 1000-1100 Plenary I: A New Development Cooperation Landscape Framing a more Horizontal and Effective Architecture This session will frame South-South Cooperation and Capacity Development within the changing overall development cooperation landscape, enriching the global effectiveness agenda. - Sul Kyung-Hoon, Director General for Development Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Korea - Hardeep Singh Puri, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations - María Soraya Rodríguez, Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Spain 1100 1120 Coffee Break 1120 1330 Plenary II: South-South Cooperation and Capacity Development: Setting the Scene 1. South-South Cooperation as a Driver of Capacity Development This session will provide an overall perspective on Capacity Development and the role of South South Cooperation as a unique contributor to that agenda. - Eckhard Deutscher, Chairman of the DAC, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development - Muhammad Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, Vice Minister and Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Bangladesh - Bruno Camara, Special Advisor to Minister of Social Development and Fight Against Hunger, Brazil
2 2. What Works and does not Work in South-South Cooperation? Experiences to Date This session will showcase current state-of-the-art is in South -South Cooperation, highlighting innovations, opportunities and challenges, drawing also from the case story process. - Rajat M. Nag, Managing Director General, Asian Development Bank - Máximo Romero Jiménez, Director General for Technical and Scientific Cooperation, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Mexico - Antonio Tujan, Jr., Vice Chair, BetterAid - Mary-Anne Addo, Director of External Resource Mobilization, Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Ghana 3. An Evidenced-based Approach to the High Level Event This session will present the main preliminary conclusions of the case story process. - Manju Senapaty, Principal Planning and Policy Specialist, Asian Development Bank - Diego Molano, High Presidential Counselor for Social Action and International Cooperation, Colombia. 1330 1530 Lunch Break (at Marriott Hotel) 1530 1900 (flexible coffee break) Roundtable I South South Cooperation Platforms and Information Management Roundtable I will distill lesson learnt from country and regional experiences in establishing cooperation platforms and information management systems. Co-organizers: Mexico and UNDP Roundtable II Sub-regional, Regional and Interregional Perspectives on South South Cooperation and Capacity Development Roundtable II will explore sub-regional, regional and inter-regional cooperation successful experiences where collective action led to innovation and value added results. Co-organizers: Thailand, IADB and OAS 2000 2200 Reception and Cultural Event (at Botero Museum) Roundtable III Teaming-up for South South Cooperation and Capacity Development Triangular Cooperation Roundtable III will provide evidence-based conclusions and recommendations on how to promote triangular partnerships for development results. Co-organizers : Spain and South Africa
3 DAY 2 Thursday, March 25th, 2010 0830 1200 (flexible coffee break) Roundtable IV Emerging Mechanisms to Promote South South Cooperation and Capacity Development Roundtable IV will explore and identify arrangements that promote and facilitate implementation of South South Cooperation and contribute to Capacity Development. Co-organizers: NEPAD and Mozambique Roundtable V South-South Contributions to Development Challenges Roundtable V will explore how South South Cooperation is contributing to and unleashing capacities of partner countries to cope with the development challenges. Co-organizers: Egypt and AsDB 1200 1400 Lunch Break (at Marriott Hotel) 1400 1430 1430 1530 Case Stories Expo: The Role of Multilateral Organizations in Brokering Country-led Evidences Roundtable VI Multi-stakeholders Perspectives on South South Cooperation Roundtable VI will explore and share perspectives and experience of South South Cooperation among parliamentarians and civil societies. Co-organizers: Better Aid and AWEPA This session have an open dialogue between two case story tellers (AWEPA and Indonesia) and two multilateral organizations (SEGIB and UNDP) on the support to evidence-based initiatives related to SSC. - Niky Fabiancic, Director and Official in Charge of the Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, UNDP - José María Vera, Director of Planning, Iberoamerican General Secretariat, SEGIB - Tubagus Choesni, Director for State Budget Procurement Planning, National Public Procurement Agency (NPPA), Indonesia - Jeffrey Balch, Director, Research and Evaluation, Association of European Parliamentarians with Africa, AWEPA Plenary III: Reporting Back from Roundtables This session will allow the Roundtables representatives to share the outcomes of the RTs and highlight the key issues for the way forward. - Chair: Jeffrey Gutman, Vice President, World Bank - Roundtables representatives 1530 1600 Coffee Break
4 1600 1800 1800 1840 1840-1900 Plenary IV: The Way Forward 1. Who Does What? Bridging Global Platforms and Promoting Synergies between Various Processes on South South Cooperation This session will highlight and build synergies and cooperation between the United Nations General Assembly Committee on South South Cooperation processes and the Working Party on Aid Effectiveness Task Team on South South Cooperation, and with other initiatives at global, regional and country level. - Cosmas Gitta, Chief of Policy Development, Special Unit for South - South Cooperation, UNDP - Enrique Maruri, Director of International Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Colombia and Co-chair of Task Team on South - South Cooperation - Nikhil Seth, Director, United Nations ECOSOC Support and Coordination, UNDESA 2. Towards a Southern-led Learning Architecture on South South Cooperation in the Context of Aid Effectiveness This session will share the experiences of the Task Team on South South Cooperation case story process and elaborate options for learning architecture for generating evidences towards Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in 2011. - Jaime Alfredo Miranda Flamenco, Vice Minister for Development Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, El Salvador - Xiaojun He, Deputy Director, International Poverty Reduction Center, China - Ibrahim Assane Miyaki, Chief Executive Officer, New Partnership for Africa s Development (NEPAD) - Nils Sjard Schulz, Policy Advisor, Task Team on South South Cooperation 3. The Road to Seoul. Towards the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness This session will outline the road to Seoul and look at what are the main objectives and priorities for the South South Cooperation agenda and who needs to do what. - Mohammed Ouzzine, Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Morocco - Koos Richelle, Director General of EuropeAid, European Commission and Co-chair of the Working Party on Aid Effectiveness - Sanjay Pradhan, Vice President, World Bank - Sul Kyung-Hoon, Director General for Development Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Korea Plenary V: The Bogota Statement This session will present the final version of Bogota statement [for endorsement on voluntary basis]. - Jaime Bermúdez, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Colombia - Syahrial Loetan, Executive Secretary, Ministry of National Development Planning, Indonesia - Mohamed El-Orabi, Ambassador and Assistant Minister for Economic Affairs and International Cooperation, Egypt Closing Remarks - Francisco Santos, Vice President of the Republic of Colombia
5 After-High Level Event Meetings Friday, March 26th, 2010 0830 1230 Dialogue on Latin America and Caribbean Perspectives on Cooperation Effectiveness The meeting will provide a forum for participants from Latin America and the Caribbean to exchange views and experiences on aid effectiveness, highlighting the challenges and lessons learned. 1230 1330 Lunch Break (at Marriott Hotel) 1330 1700 Working Party on Aid Effectiveness Executive Committee Meeting (closed meeting)