| Monday 26 January 2009
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| 6:00 p.m. |
Reception and Dinner (venue to be confirmed) |
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| Tuesday 27 January 2009
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| 9 - 9:30 a.m. |
Registration of participants |
| 9:30 - 9:45 a.m. |
Welcome and opening of the meeting.
Speakers: Prof. Stephen Marks, Andrea Rossi, OHCHR officer |
| 9:45 - 10:00 a.m. |
Introduction of participants |
| 10:00 - 10:45 a.m. |
The challenge of implementing the right to development.
Speaker: Dr. Arjun Sengupta |
| 10:45 - 11:15 a.m. |
Significance of potential use of the criteria -
Mandate of the high-level task force on the right to development and
the Office of the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
Speaker: OHCHR officer |
| 11:15 - 11:30 a.m. |
Coffee break |
| 11:30 - 1:00 p.m. |
Purpose of the refinement of the criteria -
Clarification of the meaning of the right to development for the
purposes of periodic evaluation, method used for current criteria and
of the partnerships to be evaluated under MDG 8.
Speaker: Prof. Stephen Marks |
| 1 - 2.30 p.m. |
Lunch break |
| 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. |
Lessons learned from other efforts to introduce human
rights consideration into the qualitative and quantitative assessment
of development policies, programmes, and projects.
Speakers: World Bank and UNDP (to be confirmed) |
| 3:30 - 4:15 p.m. |
Refinement of the current criteria -
Suggestions for the specific sub-criteria or indicators under each
criterion capable of providing tools of measurement of conformity with
the right to development.
Topic introduced and moderated by Rajeev Malhotra, Consultant
Discussion:
Structural criteria (a) – (g)
Process criteria (h) – (m)
Outcome criteria (n) – (q)
Reconsidering the three categories
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| 4:15 - 4:30 p.m. |
Coffee Break |
| 4:30 - 5:15 p.m. |
Relation between MDG8 specific criteria and a
"comprehensive and coherent set of guidelines" on implementation of
the right to development.
Speakers: Nicolaas Schrijver and Prof. Stephen Marks |
| 5:15 - 6:00 p.m. |
Discussion among the participants |
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| Wednesday 28 January 2009
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| 9:30 - 10:30 a.m. |
Suggestions for the thematic expansion of existing
criteria to cover other thematic issues under MDG 8.
Topic introduced and moderated by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
Discussion:
Aid
Trade
Debt
Transfer of technology
Access to essential medicines
Other themes |
| 10:30 - 11:15 a.m. |
Consideration of draft refinement of the criteria
and indicators and other suggestions.
Topic introduced and moderated by Craig Mokhaiber,
Deputy Director, New York Office of the OHCHR |
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Introduction to group discussions |
| 11:15 - 11:30 a.m. |
Coffee break |
| 11:30 - 1:00 p.m. |
Group discussion -
Proposals and suggestions on indicator and measurement |
| 1 - 2.30 p.m. |
Lunch break
(Possibility to join Maria Green's presentation, UDHR Article 13, at the Carr Center.) |
| 2.30 – 4:15 p.m. |
Plenary and sharing group work |
| 4:15 – 4:30 p.m. |
Conclusion and adjournment |
