Schedule of Events |
>> Press Schedule << |
| Monday, September 11 | ||
| 8:00 a.m. | Registration Opens | Singapore City Hall |
| Thursday, September 14 | ||
| 9:00 a.m. | Civil Society Forum opens |
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore |
| 9:00 a.m. | Civil Society Forum - Introductory Briefing for CSOs attending the 2006 Annual Meetings |
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore |
| 10:00 a.m. | Press Briefing: World Economic Outlook (WEO); IMF Economic Counsellor and Research Department Director Raghuram Rajan Webcast | Transcript |
Suntec Singapore |
| 11:00 a.m. | Civil Society Forum - Civil Society Accountability in Disaster Relief: Lessons from the Trenches | CSO Center, Suntec Singapore |
| 1:30 p.m. | Civil Society Forum - Social Enterprises and Social Development: The Opportunities and the Challenges
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CSO Center, Suntec Singapore |
| 3:15 p.m. | Civil Society Forum - The Role of the International Monetary Fund in Low-Income Countries |
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore |
| 4:45 p.m. | Civil Society Forum - Low-Income Countries in Asia and the Role of the IMF |
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore |
| 6:30 p.m. | Civil Society Forum - CSO Planning Meeting for the Town Hall |
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore |
| Friday, September 15 | ||
| 8:00 a.m. | Civil Society Forum - Breakfast meeting for CSO representatives with Homi Kharas, World Bank Chief Economist for East Asia Region and other regional senior staff to discuss Bank policies and work in the region. |
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore |
| 9:00 a.m. | Press Briefing: IMF Managing Director Rodrigo de Rato Webcast | Transcript |
Suntec Singapore |
| 10:30 a.m. | Press Briefing: World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz Webcast | Transcript |
Suntec Singapore |
| 12:30 p.m. | Civil Society Organization Townhall Meeting; Managing Director Rodrigo de Rato, and World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz Webcast | Transcript |
Suntec Singapore |
| 3:00 p.m. | Civil Society Forum - Promoting Compliance and Conflict Resolution: Experiences of World Bank Group Inspection Panel (IP) and Compliance Adviser Ombudsman (CAO) |
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore |
| 5:00 p.m. | Civil Society Forum - "Poor Women’s Interventions in Global Trade and Commerce – Issues and Implications" |
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore |
| Saturday, September 16 | ||
| 9:00 a.m. | Annual Meetings Program of Seminars | Pan Pacific Hotel |
| 9:00 a.m. | Group of 24 Ministers Meeting Webcast | Transcript | Communiqué |
Suntec Singapore |
| 12:00 noon | Press Briefing: World Development Report 2007: Development and the Next Generation; World Bank Chief Economist François Bourguignon and WDR director Emmanuel Jimenez Webcast |
Suntec Singapore |
| 3:00 p.m. | Civil Society Forum - Promises and Perils of Regional Trade Agreements in Asia |
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore |
| 3:45 p.m. | Press Briefing: Chair of the Group of 24 Ministers Webcast | Transcript | Communiqué |
Suntec Singapore |
| 4:00 p.m. | Civil Society Forum - Panel Discussion and Launch: "Raising the Governance Bar in the Forest Sector: How the fight against illegal logging is benefiting Africa" and Launch of the G8 Illegal Logging Dialogue |
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore |
| 4:15 p.m. | Civil Society Forum - IMF: Rising Inequality in Asia |
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore |
| Sunday, September 17 | ||
| 8:30 a.m. | Annual Meetings Program of Seminars | Pan Pacific Hotel |
| 8:30 a.m. | Civil Society Forum - Breakfast meeting for CSO representatives with Katherine Sierra, Vice President, World Bank Sustainable Development Network and other senior staff to discuss Bank policies and work in sustainable development and infrastructure. |
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore |
| 9:15 a.m. | Civil Society Forum - "The Future of IFI Policies in Asia" |
NTUC-Centre |
| 9:30 a.m. | Lithuania World Bank 'Graduation' Ceremony - Zigmantas Balcytis, Minister of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania; Shigeo Katsu, World Bank Vice President for the Europe and Central Asia Region; Svein Aass, Executive Director representing Lithuania at the World Bank |
Suntec Singapore |
| 10:00 a.m. | International Monetary and Financial Committee | Suntec Singapore |
| 11:00 a.m. | Press Briefing: African Finance Ministers Webcast |
Suntec Singapore |
| 1:30 p.m. | Civil Society Forum - World Development Report 2007: Development and the Next Generation |
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore |
| 2:00 p.m. | Civil Society Forum - Labor Standards in World Bank Operations
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NTUC-Centre |
| 3:00 p.m. | Estonia World Bank 'Graduation' Ceremony - Aivar Soerd, Minister of Finance of the Republic of Estonia; Shigeo Katsu, World Bank Vice President for the Europe and Central Asia Region; Svein Aass, Executive Director representing Estonia at the World Bank | Suntec Singapore |
| 3:00 p.m. | Per Jacobsson Foundation Lecture on "Asian Monetary Integration: Will It Ever Happen?" by Mr. Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Singapore's Minister for Education and Second Minister for Finance | Marina Mandarin Hotel |
| 3:15 p.m. approx. | Press Briefing: IMFC Chairman Gordon Brown and IMF Managing Director Rodrigo de Rato Webcast | Communiqué | Transcript |
Suntec Singapore |
| 4:00 p.m. | Civil Society Forum - Jobs for Disadvantaged Youth: Affirmative Action or Market Led Skills Development? |
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore |
| 5:00 p.m. | Civil Society Forum - "An Investment Framework for Clean Energy and Development"
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CSO Center, Suntec Singapore |
| 6:15 p.m. | Civil Society Forum - Roundtable: Education for All |
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore |
| 7:00 p.m. | Civil Society Forum - Press conference: "NGO Report on the World Bank's Clean Energy Framework" |
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore |
| Monday, September 18 | ||
| 8:00 a.m. | Civil Society Forum - Breakfast meeting for CSO representatives with Praful Patel, World Bank Vice President for South Asia Region and other regional senior staff to discuss Bank policies and work in the region. |
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore |
| 8:30 a.m. | Annual Meetings Program of Seminars | Pan Pacific Hotel |
| 9:00 a.m. | Development Committee | Suntec Singapore |
| 10:00 a.m. | Civil Society Forum - WDR 2007: "Citizen Youth" – Young People Exercising their Citizenship |
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore |
| 11:00 a.m. | Seminar by the African Governors | Suntec Singapore |
| 2:00 p.m. | Small States Forum | Suntec Singapore |
| 2:00 p.m. | Civil Society Forum - Governance and Social Accountability
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CSO Center, Suntec Singapore |
| 3:00 p.m. | Development Committee Press Briefing: Minister Alberto Carrasquilla, Chairman of the Development Committee; Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank, and Rodrigo de Rato, Managing Director of the IMF Communiqué (pdf) | Webcast |
Suntec Singapore |
| Tuesday, September 19 | ||
| 8:30 a.m. | Civil Society Forum - "Claiming Our Right to Know": Launch of the Transparency Charter for International Financial Institutions |
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore |
| 9:00 a.m. | Civil Society Forum - Treatment Access--Affordable Options for Low and Middle Income Countries |
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore |
| 10:00 a.m. | Annual Meetings Opening Plenary Session Webcasts: Part 1 - Part 2 |
Suntec Singapore |
| 11:30 a.m. | Civil Society Forum - Press Conference: "Civil Society Advocates Respond to World Bank Anti-Corruption Strategy" |
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore |
| 1:30 p.m. | Civil Society Forum - Transparency and Poverty Reduction in a Resource Rich Developing Country: Lessons from Nigeria |
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore |
| 2:00 p.m. | Civil Society Forum - Presentation and discussion of World Bank Governance and Anticorruption Strategy with World Bank senior managers |
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore |
| 3:00 p.m. | Annual Meetings Plenary Session Webcast |
Suntec Singapore |
| 4:30 p.m. | Civil Society Forum - "Impossible Architecture" - Why the Financial Structure is Not Working for the Poor and How to Redesign it for Equity and Development |
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore |
| 4:30 p.m. | Civil Society Forum - Lessons Learned by the World Bank on Sustainable Development and Infrastructure |
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore |
| 4:30 p.m. | Civil Society Forum - The International Financial Institutions in Governance of Aid |
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore |
| 6:15 p.m. | Lecture by Anne Krueger (IMF First Deputy Managing Director, Sept. 2001- Aug. 2006) on "An Enduring Need: The Importance of Multilateralism in the 21st Century" | Suntec Singapore |
| Wednesday, September 20 | ||
| 9:00 a.m. | Civil Society Forum - Social Protection: Income Support to Older People |
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore |
| 9:30 a.m. | Annual Meetings Plenary Session and Closing Session Webcast |
Suntec Singapore |
| 11:30 a.m. | Civil Society Forum - Launch of "Odious Lending: Debt Relief as If Morality Mattered" |
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore |
| 1:00 p.m. | Civil Society Forum - "Discussion on the National Barriers to Sustainable Development Implementation in 15 Southern Countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America" |
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore |
| 3:30 p.m. | Civil Society Forum - The World Bank and the IMF after the Doha suspension: Quo vadis? |
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore |
| 6:00 p.m. | Civil Society Forum closes | CSO Center, Suntec Singapore |
