The Future of International Cooperation

On Thursday 7 March 2013 SID will be organising a conference on ‘The Future of International Cooperation’ in The Hague in cooperation with the Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO), the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) and the NCDO. The conference will take place in the ISS building and about 200 participants are expected to attend. Several members of ISS staff will take part in the conference, as will several of our students.

It is the closing event of a stakeholder consultation process designed to bring together ideas for a new agenda on international cooperation ‘Beyond ODA: towards a new perspective on international cooperation for development: new actors, new instruments’. Speakers from around the world will reflect on and discuss recommendations for rethinking and transforming the development agenda. These recommendations were drafted based on discussions that took place in the fall of 2012 in which representatives from government, civil society, science and business in the Netherlands took part.  At the end of the conference day, conclusions will be presented to Minister Ploumen, the Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation.

Participation is by invitation only. Please contact conference@remove-this.sidnl.org if you have any questions related to this conference.

About the speakers

Agenda

Day Chair: Frank Little

9:00 Registration
9:30-10:30 Opening and introduction
9:30-09:40 Opening: Leo de Haan (ISS)
09:40- 10:30 Introduction: International cooperation in 2020.

The context within which new forms of international cooperation for peaceful, sustainable, and
inclusive development need to be conceived and implemented

Keynote speaker: Donald Kaberuka

10:30-12:30 Session 1: Inclusive and Sustainable Development

Sustainable economic development is growth triggered by investments in environmental priorities
Inclusive economic development is growth that creates employment and decent work
10:30-10:50 Speech by Pavan Sukhdev
10:50-11:10 Speech by Pascal Lamy
11:10-11:40 Coffee Break

11:40-12:45 Session 1 (Inclusive and Sustainable Development) Continued
11:40-12:00 Speech by Richard Mibey
12:00-12:45 Q&A with 3 speakers led by Myrtille Danse (BoP Innovation Network)
12:45- 13:45 Lunch Break

13:45-14:45 Session 2: Governing and Financing the Global Public Goods

Global public goods include freedom from poverty and other vulnerabilities, such as food and water
scarcity, environmental pollution and global diseases
Keynote speech by Sarah Cook (UNRISD)
Keynote speech by Carlos Lopes (UNECA)
Reactions by panel Geetanjali Misra (CREA), Mohammed Hassan(TWAS),
and Deirdre Carabine (Virtual University Uganda)

14:45-15:45 Session 3: Global Justice and Peace

Global justice and peace is freedom from conflict, violence and political exclusion
With Bert Koenders (UNOCI), Lisa Schirch (3P Human Security), Joris
Voorhoeve (Leiden University), and Gus Miclat (IID)

15:45-16:00 Coffee/Tea Break

16:00-16:50 Session 4: Building blocks for a new strategy for international development

16:00-16:30 Interview with Nanno Kleiterp, Frans van den Boom, Leo de Haan, and René
Grotenhuis to present building blocks for a new agenda to the Dutch Minister
for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation

16:30-16:50 Reflection by Minister Ploumen

16:50 Closing by René Grotenhuis (SID)

17:00 Reception

See for more information:

Registration:conference@remove-this.sidnl.org

Organized by:

NCDO - FMO - SID - ISS