Expert Seminar 

The Millennium Development Goals:

Over-ambition or Under-investment?

Friday 18^th March 2005

Priorij van Hertoginnedal

09.00 – 09.30            Registration

09.30 – 9.45               Welcome

Viscount Etienne Davignon, President of the IRRI-KIIB

09.45 – 10.00            Introduction

H.E. Armand De Decker, Belgian Minister of Development Cooperation

10.00 – 10.45             The Millennium Development Goals: A global Agenda

Jan Vandemoortele, UNDP. Read also his article about world poverty in One Pager 12

Brian Ngo, World Bank Paris Office

                                   Arnaud Zacharie, Centre National de Coopération au Développement

10.45 – 11.15             Coffee break

11.15 – 12.30             Debate

Chair: Jan Deboutte, Deputy Director General Multilateral and Globalisation Issues, Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs

12.30 – 14.00             Lunch

14.00 – 14.50           Investing in Development: A Practical Plan?

Igor Haustrate, Deputy Director General Development Cooperation

                                   Prof. Eric Tollens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

                                   Nadine Gouzée, Federal Planning Bureau

                                   Jacques Laruelle, Belgian Development Cooperation

14.50 – 16.00             Debate

                                   Chair: Martine Van Dooren, Director General for Development Cooperation

16.00 – 16.20             Coffee break

16.20 – 17.00             A Role for The Donor community

Bart Bode, Broederlijk Delen
Peter Van Acker, Belgian Development Cooperation: version française - Nederlandstalige versie
Prof. Robrecht Renard, University of Antwerp

17.00 – 18.20           Debate

Chair: Martine Van Dooren, Director General for Development Cooperation

18.20 – 18.30             Closing address

                                   Kris Panneels, Belgian Development Cooperation