Last Update: January 28, 2008
Conference Program
Friday, October 19
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G. Taking Action: Approaches, Strategies, and Governance for Poverty and Hunger Reduction
  • G.1 Plenary Keynote Addresses: How to Design, Implement, and Scale Up Action for the Poor and Hungry
    (09:00-10:30; Main Conference Room, 2nd Floor, Friendship Palace)
    Co-Chair: Lei Zhang, Managing Director, International Poverty Reduction Center in China
    Co-Chair: Khalid Malik, Representative, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), China
    Video: Keynote Addresses
    • Social mobilization in poverty reduction
      Speaker: Fuguo Hu, Director, Chinese Association for Poverty Alleviation and Development, China
    • Experiences with new agricultural research policy initiatives to cut poverty and hunger
      Speaker: Ren Wang, Director, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), USA
      Presentation (PPT): (PPT 518K)
    • How can interventions be effectively designed and implemented in environments where limited human and institutional capacity poses a key constraint?
      Speaker: Kamal Hyat, Chief Executive, Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund, Pakistan
      Presentation (PPT): (PPT 58K)  |  Summary Note: (PDF 87K)
    • How to effectively scale up interventions and actions that address malnutrition, including among children?
      Speaker: Kathy Spahn, President and Chief Executive Officer, Helen Keller International, USA
      Presentation (PPT): (PPT 490K)  |  Summary Note: (PDF 96K)
    • Improving effectiveness in managing and using poverty reduction funds to benefit the poor
      Speaker: Liming Chu, Deputy Director, Agricultural Division, Ministry of Finance, China
      Presentation (PPT): (PPT 270K)  |  Chinese: (PPT 188K)
      Chinese Research Report: (PDF 124K)
  • G.2 Parallel Sessions/Roundtables: Strategies for Effective Implementation of Interventions
    1. Scaling Up Interventions Focused on the Poor and Hungry
      (10:45-12:45; Main Conference Room, 2nd Floor, Friendship Palace)
      Video: Parallel Session
      • Does experience point to certain types of interventions that better lend themselves to scaling up?
      • What are the key constraints to scaling up interventions for the poorest and hungry people, and how can they be overcome? What strategies can be used to create the right incentives for widespread implementation of interventions within the domestic political system and multilateral organizations? How can the capacity of implementing organizations be improved?
      • What lessons can we learn about what actors should be involved in scaling up—public sector, private sector, civil society organizations? How can development partners best support scaling up?
      • How should public investment be scaled up? In which sectors, in what sequence? How can sustainable operation and financing of scaled-up interventions be assured?
      • What speaks against scaling up/large scale and for diversity/small scale? What is the optimal scale?
      Co-Chair: Johannes Linn, Executive Director, Global Economy and Development, The Wolfensohn Center, The Brookings Institution, USA
      Co-Chair: Fu Qin, Director, Institute of Agricultural Economics and Development, CAAS, China
      Rapporteur: Iddi Simba, Former Minister of Industry and Trade, Tanzania, and Advisor, International Poverty Reduction Center in China (IPRCC)
      • Scaling up interventions: Reflections on catalyzing and sustaining change
        Speaker: Roy Steiner, Senior Program Officer for Agricultural Development, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USA
        Presentation (PPT): (PPT 894K)
      • Interaction between government and non-government organizations to reduce poverty
        Speaker: Daofeng He, Executive Vice President, China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, China
        Presentation (PPT): (PPT 632K)
      • Innovations in delivery and scaling up of nutrition interventions
        Speaker: Marie Ruel, Director, Food Consumption and Nutrition Division, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), USA
        Presentation (PPT): (PPT 963K)
      • How constraints to scaling up interventions can be overcome, how the capacity of implementing organizations be improved, and the appropriate role of different actors and partnerships for effectively scaling up interventions for and with the poorest
        Speaker: Jose Graziano da Silva, Resident Representative, Food and Agriculture Organization, Chile
        Presentation (PPT): (PPT 2.3M)  |  Summary Note: (PDF 212K)
      • Scaling up technology development and adoption by the poor
        Speaker: Pamela Anderson, Director General, International Potato Center, Peru
        Presentation (PPT): (PPT 2.6M)  |  Summary Note: (PDF 98K)
      • Scaling up microfinance initiatives by the private sector
        Speaker: Sona Varma, Economic Advisor, ICICI Bank, India
        Presentation (PPT): (PPT 239K)  |  Summary Note: (PDF 107K)
      • DISCUSSION
    2. Improving Governance and Reaching the Poor and Hungry during and after Emergencies and Crises
      (10:45-12:45; No.1 Conference Room, 2nd Floor, Building 7)
      Video: Parallel Session
      • What strategies have proven successful in improving the ability of the poorest and hungry to demand pro-poor policies and ensure the effective delivery of services—for example, decentralization, civil service reform, increased information, transparency, and participation?
      • How and what can facilitate access to rights by the poor and roles of judiciary in poverty reduction?
      • How can interventions to improve the well-being of the poor and hungry be addressed in failing states, and how can service delivery for the poor be ensured during and after crises and emergencies?
      Co-Chair: Grace Akello, President, Women Peace and Development Consultancy Ltd., Uganda
      Co-Chair: Ming Lei, Vice Dean of the Poverty Research Institute, Peking University, China
      Rapporteur: Regina Birner, Senior Research Fellow, Development Strategy and Governance Division, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), USA
      • Movements into poverty and out of poverty
        Speaker: Anirudh Krishna, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, Duke University, USA
        Presentation (PPT): (PPT 238K)
        Policy Brief: (PDF 105K)
      • How to effectively reach and provide services to the poorest and hungry people during and after crises and emergencies
        Speaker: Tom Arnold, Chief Executive Officer, Concern Worldwide, Ireland
        Speaker Note: (PDF 108K)
      • How to improve the ability of the poorest and hungry to demand pro-poor policies and ensure the effective delivery of services
        Speaker: Regina Birner, Senior Research Fellow, Development Strategy and Governance Division, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), USA
        Presentation (PPT): (PPT 889K)
        Policy Brief: (PDF 124K)
      • How to overcome governance constraints for effective implementation of programs
        Speaker: Werner Kiene, Member, Inspection Panel, World Bank, USA
        Speaker Note: (PDF 107K)
      • Poverty Reduction and Realization of Peaceful Land policies
        Speaker: Gunnar Sorbo, Director, Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), Norway
        Policy Brief: (PDF 105K)
      • DISCUSSION
    3. Building the Social Capital of the Poor and Hungry
      (10:45-12:45; No.2 Conference Room, 2nd Floor, Building 7)
      Video: Parallel Session
      • How does enhancing the social capital of the poorest and hungry, particularly women, enable effective implementation of policies and interventions to improve their welfare?
      • What strategies have proven effective in building trust and developing social networks of the poor and hungry people?
      • How are organizations for and with the poor and hungry people best fostered? What can we learn from local and global movements?
      • What strategies have been successful in ensuring that the social capital of the poor is harnessed in voicing their demands, providing services, and accessing markets?
      • What is needed to foster social innovation and social entrepreneurship, to scale up successes, and to enable social innovators and entrepreneurs to realize sustainable improvements in welfare for the poorest?
      Chair: P.C. Kesavan, DAE-Homi Bhabha Chair & Distinguished Fellow, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, India
      Rapporteur: Suresh Babu, Senior Research Fellow, International Service for National Agricultural Research Division, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), USA
      • How to foster organizations for and with small-scale farmers
        Speaker: John Joseph Otim, President, Agricultural Council of Uganda & Senior Advisor to President Museveni of Uganda, Uganda
        Presentation (PPT): (PPT 381K)  |  Summary Note: (PDF 101K)
      • How are organizations for and with the poorest and hungry people best fostered
        Speaker: Vijay Kumar, Chief Executive Officer, Society for the Elimination of Rural Poverty, India
        Presentation (PPT): (PPT 133K)  |  Summary Note: (PDF 116K)
      • How to foster social innovation and entrepreneurship, particularly by and among farmers, and what roles the poor themselves can play in social innovation
        Speaker: Bernard Njonga, Secretary General, Service d'Appui aux Initiatives Locales de Développement (SAILD), Cameroon
        Summary Note: (PDF 105K)
      • How to build the social capital of the poorest and hungry people
        Speaker: Suresh Babu, Senior Research Fellow, International Service for National Agricultural Research Division, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), USA
        Presentation (PPT): (PPT 790K)
      • The role of entrepreneurship in poverty reduction
        Speaker: Ping Wang, Chairman, China's Youchen Social Entrepreneurs' Foundation, China
        Presentation (PPT): (PPT 212K)
      • DISCUSSION
    4. Improving the Measurement of Extreme Poverty and Hunger
      (10:45-12:45; No.1 Conference Room, 1st Floor, Building 8)
      Video: Parallel Session
      Co-Chair: Stefan Klasen, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Göttingen, Germany
      Co-Chair: Xiaopeng Luo, Professor, Director of Center for Poverty Alleviation Studies, Guizhou University, China
      Rapporteur: Ruth Hill, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020 Vision Initiative, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), USA
      • How to measure well-being
        Speaker: Sabina Alkire, Director, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, UK
        Presentation (PPT): (PPT 965K)
      • How to improve the measurement of child malnutrition
        Speaker: Peter Svedberg, Professor of Development Economics, The Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden
        Presentation (PDF): (PDF 174K)  |  Summary Note: (PDF 542K)
        Policy Brief: (PDF 123K)
      • Monitoring children's development: UNICEF experiences
        Speaker: Chris de Neubourg, Advisor of United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
        Presentation (PPT): (PPT 1.8M)
      • Experiences from India
        Speaker: Abusaleh Shariff, Chief Economist and Head, Human Development Division, National Council of Applied Economic Research, India
        Presentation (PPT): (PPT 399K)
      • Experiences from China
        Speaker: Zude Xian, Director General, Rural Survey Organization, National Bureau of Statistics, China
        Presentation (PPT): (PPT 218K)
      • Philippines experience with community-based measurement and monitoring
        Speaker: Celia Reyes, Co-Director, Poverty and Economic Policy Network, Philippines
        Presentation (PPT): (PPT 1.2M)  |  Summary Note: (PDF 86K)
      • DISCUSSION
  • G.3 Plenary Panel: Report Back from G.2 Parallel Sessions/Roundtables
    (14:00-15:00; Main Conference Room, 2nd Floor, Friendship Palace)
    Co-Chair: Evan Due, Senior Program Specialist, Social and Economic Policies, International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Singapore
    Co-Chair: Changwen Zhao, Vice-president, Sichuan University, China
    Video: Report from Parallel Sessions/Roundtables
    • Roundtable 1: Scaling Up Interventions Focused on the Poorest and Hungry
      Speaker: Johannes Linn, Executive Director, Global Economy and Development, The Wolfensohn Center, The Brookings Institution, USA
      Summary Note: (PDF 123K)
    • Roundtable 2: Improving Governance and Reaching the Poorest and Hungry during and after Emergencies and Crises
      Speaker: Grace Akello, President, Women Peace and Development Consultancy Ltd., Uganda
    • Roundtable 3: Building the Social Capital of the Poorest and Hungry
      Speaker: P.C. Kesavan, DAE-Homi Bhabha Chair & Distinguished Fellow, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, India
    • Roundtable 4: Improving the Measurement of Extreme Poverty and Hunger
      Speaker: Stefan Klasen, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Göttingen, Germany
      Presentation (PPT): (PPT 311K)
    • DISCUSSION
  • G.4 Plenary Roundtable: Putting Social Entrepreneurs to Work for the Poor
    (15:00 -15:45; Main Conference Room, 2nd Floor, Friendship Palace)
    Chair: Eleni Gabre-Madhin, Senior Research Fellow, Development Strategy and Governance Division, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Ethiopia
    Video: Plenary Roundtable
    • Speaker: Norah Owaraga, Advisor to Executive Director, Uganda Change Agent Association, Uganda
      Summary Note: (PDF 93K)
    • Speaker: Tuenjai Deetes, Fellow, Ashoka, Thailand
      Presentation (PPT): (PPT 2.8M)
    • Speaker: Edgardo Herbosa, Managing Director, b2bpricenow.com, Philippines
      Presentation (PPT): (PPT 3.4M)
  • G.5 Plenary Keynote Addresses: How to Develop, Finance, and Implement Effective Partnerships for Action for the Poor and Hungry
    (15:45-17:00; Main Conference Room, 2nd Floor, Friendship Palace)
    Co-Chair: Justin Yifu Lin, Professor and Director, China Center for Economic Research, Peking University, China
    Co-Chair: Zhenyao Wang, Director General of Department of Disaster Relief, Ministry of Civil Affairs, China
    Video: Keynote Addresses
    • Implementing policy guidance on pro-poor growth and the role of poverty impact assessments
      Speaker: Solveig Buhl, Senior Policy Administrator, Poverty Reduction and Growth, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), France
      Presentation (PPT): (PPT 891K)  |  Summary Note: (PDF 107K)
    • How to promote the integration of international aid and donor poverty reduction plans to improve the efficiency of international aid
      Speaker: Xiaohua Jiang, Director General, Office of Foreign Investment Projects Management Center, the State Council Leading Group
      Presentation (PPT): (PDF 58K)  |  Chinese: (PDF 69K)
    • How developing countries can scale up agricultural development; Senegal's experience
      Speaker: Fatou Gaye Sarr, Ministre Deleguee chargee du Developpement Rural, Ministere de l'Agriculture et du Developpement Rural, Senegal
      Summary Note: (PDF 102K)  |  Chinese: (PDF 196K)
    • The role of development banks: African experiences
      Speaker: Ali Abdelhamid Aly Abou-Sabaa, Director, Agriculture & Agro-industry Department, AfDB (African Development Bank), Tunisia
    • The pivotal role of science and technology for the poor
      Speaker: Rudy Rabbinge, Chairman of the CGIAR Science Council; University Professor & Dean, Wageningen Graduate Schools, Netherlands
      Presentation (PPT): (PPT 1.3M)
H. Conclusions and Moving Forward
(17:00-17:30; Main Conference Room, 2nd Floor, Friendship Palace)
  • Co-Chair: Harris Mule, Executive Director, Top Investment Management Services, Ltd., and Former Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance and Planning, Kenya
    Co-Chair: Guoliang Wang, Deputy Director, The State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development (LGOPAD), China
    Video: Closing Session
    • Speaker: Joachim von Braun, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), USA
      Presentation (PPT): (PPT 81K)
    • Speaker: Jian Liu, Deputy Head, The State Council Leading Group of Poverty Alleviation and Development, China
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