Development Assistance Committee/Development Centre

Policy Workshop

on

“Delivering Aid Effectiveness: Improving Complementarity and Division of Labour”

DRAFT AGENDA

Monday 8 December 2008

2.30 PM to 6.00 PM

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Conference Centre

Room CC1
2, rue André-Pascal 75775 Paris Cedex 16, France

Time / Topic
2:00 PM / Arrival and Registration
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM / Welcome
Richard Carey,Director,OECD Development Co-operation Directorate
Javier Santiso, Director, OECD Development Centre
2:45 PM – 3:30PM / Presentation 1:
Diversity and Complementarity in Development Aid – East Asian Lessons for African Growth
Professor Izumi Ohno and Professor Kenichi Ohno,
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Japan
Comments and short discussion
3:30PM –4:15 PM / Presentation 2:
Progress since Accra on Division of Labour in Development Cooperation
Andreas König,Senior Policy Advisor (GTZ), Germany (representating OECD-DAC Task Team on Rationalising Aid Delivery/Fostering Complementarity)
Comments and short discussion
4:15 PM – 4:30 PM / Coffee Break
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM / Open discussion:
Improving Division of Labour – Preparing for a Cross Country Dialogue
5:30 PM – 5:45 PM / Wrap Up
Brian Hammond, OECD Development Co-operation Directorate
Henri-Bernard Solignac-Lecomte, OECD Development Centre

Contacts:, OECD Development Co-operation Directorate

, OECD Development Centre

OECD Global Forum on Development

Policy Dialogue
on

“Delivering Effective Development Finance:

Challenges Raised by the Global Economic and Financial Crisis”

DRAFT AGENDA

Tuesday 9 December 2008

9.30 AM to 1.00 PM

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Conference Centre

Room CC1
2, rue André-Pascal75775 Paris Cedex 16, France

Time / Topic
9:00 AM / Arrival and Registration
9:30AM – 9:45 AM / Welcome
Eckhard Deutscher, Chair, Development Assistance Committee of the OECD
Eric Martin, Chair, Governing Board of the OECD Development Centre, Ambassador of Switzerland to the OECD
9:45 AM – 11:15 AM / Session 1 – The consequences of the Global Economic and Financial Crisis:
How Much Do We Know?
Introductions:
Jeff Lewis, Senior Advisor, World Bank
Hugh Bredenkamp, Deputy Director, International Monetary Fund
Helmut Reisen, Head of Research, OECD Development Centre
Discussion
11:15 AM – 12:45 PM / Session 2 – What Implications For Policy Responses?
Introductions:
Maria Isabel Rezende Aboim, Superintendent,Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES)
Amar Bhattacharya,Director, Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs and Development (G-24)
Debapriya Bhattacharya, Ambassador &Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the WTO and UN Offices
Discussion[1]
12:45AM – 1:00PM / Wrap Up
Richard Carey, Director, OECD Development Co-operation Directorate
Javier Santiso, Director, OECD Development Centre

[1]In the course of the free-ranging discussions that this session aims to stimulate, Mr Manservisi of the European Commission will be called upon to make a special contribution.