TENTATIVE PROGRAMME

DAY 1             16 January 2002 (Wednesday)  

0830-0900         Opening Ceremony

a.                   ASEAN Secretary General and Mr. Mark Baird, WB Country Director for Indonesia

b.                   Keynote Speech (Keynote Speaker – Minister Kwik Kian Gie - to be confirmed)  

Photo Session with Keynote Speaker

0930-1000         Tea break 

1000-1100         Session I:        Stocktaking of Social Development (SD) in ASEAN 

1000-1010         a.         Introduction to the overall project [ASEAN Secretariat and World Bank]

1010-1025         b.         ASEAN Mandates on Social Development Cooperation [ASEAN Secretariat]

1025-1040         c.         Social Development in the ASEAN Region:  Current Situation, Challenges and

Implications for Social Policy (Ms Lim Kim Lan, Chief, ESCAP Social

Development Division) 

1040-1100         Q&A discussion 

1100-1300         Session II:      The Last Five Years:  Stocktaking of National Social

Development: Achievements and Shortfalls

Country paper presentations from Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam. 

1300-1400         Lunch Break 

1400 – 1530      Session III:     Panel Discussion: Experiences and Lessons Learnt in the Context of

Financial and Economic Crisis of 1997-98: Lessons for Mainstreaming  Social Development in the ASEAN region

[Panelists: Mr. Scott Guggenheim (WB); Ms. Lorraine Corner

(UNIFEM); Ms. Lim Kim Lan (ESCAP); Dr. Aurora Javate de Dios

(NCRFW); Dr. Fadil Azim Abbas (FAA Research and Consultancy Services, Malaysia)] 

1530-1545         Tea Break 

1545 – 1715      Session IV:     Break Out Groups (focusing on key social development challenges/

shortfalls and lessons learnt in mainstreaming social development into the national

development agenda.  What has been country and sectoral experiences?)

§         Poverty alleviation/ social protection/safety nets for vulnerable groups

§         Labour and employment

§         Health issues

§         Gender mainstreaming

1715-1800         Session V:      Presentation of group discussions

1800                 End of Day 1 Discussions 

Evening            Welcome Dinner hosted by the Secretary-General of ASEAN

DAY 2             17 January 2002 (Thursday) 

0900-1015         Session  VI :   New Challenges for Social Policy and National Planning :

Globalization, Market             Challenges and the Economic Imperatives  

a.                   What we have learned from the Asian economic and financial crisis of 1997/98  (Dr. Farooq Iqbal, WB, via video-conference)

b.                   Social Safety Nets, Social Protection and Risk Management  (Dr. Robert Holzmann, WB, via video-conference)

c.                   Integrating Poverty Eradication into the National Planning Agenda in Malaysia: Lessons Learned and New Challenges (Dato’ Rahmah Kassim, Secretary General, Ministry of Rural Development, Malaysia)

d.                   Integration of health issues: challenges from the HIV/AIDS prevention and control experience (Dr. Werasit Sittitrai, UNAIDS)

e.                   From the Margins to the Mainstream: Making Government Work for Gender Equality (Dr. Aurora Javate de Dios, Chair, National Commission for the Role of Filipino Women) 

1015-1045         Q&A discussion.

1045 – 1115      Tea break 

1115-1240         Session VII:    Equity, Participation and Empowerment:  The New Social

Development Agenda

a.                   Decentralization and impact on the planning and implementation of social development policy: The case of Indonesia (tbc)

b.                   NGOs and Civil Society – The Cambodia Experience (Ms. Kasem Kolnary, Director, Cambodia HIV/AIDS Education and Care)

c.                   The Role of Business and the Private Sector in Social Development: Lessons from the ASEAN Region (Dr. Anthony Pramualratana, Thailand Business Coalition on AIDS)

d.                   The Community Participation Experience in Thailand (Dr. Chamnan Wattanasiri, Ministry of the Interior, Thailand)

e.                   Empowerment, Participation and Equity: New Paradigm of Development (Prof. Kunugi, International Christian University, Tokyo) 

1240-1300         Q&A discussion. 

1300 - 1400       Lunch 

1400 – 1600      Session  VIII :            The Regional Work Program 

1400 – 1430      Introduction on Preparation of the Regional Work Program (ASEAN Secretariat/World

Bank Project Consultant) 

1430 – 1600      Breakout  Group Discussions (objective: to review the summary of  first break out

discussions on key social development challenges and lessons learnt in mainstreaming social development and to provide recommendations for follow-up by national development planning agencies)

§         Poverty Alleviation/ Social Protection/ safety nets for vulnerable groups

§         Labour and Employment

§         Health Issues

§         Gender Mainstreaming

1600-1615         Tea Break 

1615-1700         Presentation of Break Out Group Recommendations 

Presentation of recommendations by the break out groups in plenary; a panel group to lead in providing feedback. 

1700                 End of Day 2 Discussions

DAY 3             18 January 2002 (Friday)  

0830-1000         Session IX :    Panel Discussion on Developing a Regional Plan of Action and the

Social Development Learning Needs Program

a.       WB: The ASEAN Social Development Learning/ Technical Needs Program [World Bank, via video-conference]

b.       ASEAN: Framework for a Regional Capacity Building Program [ASEAN Secretariat/WB Consultant]

1025-1125         Statement by H.E.Thaksin Shinawatra, Prime Minister of Thailand

                        Conference participants are kindly requested to proceed to the Main Conference Room

on the Mezzanine Floor. 

1130 – 1330      Lunch 

1330-1530         Continuation of Session IX. 

1530-1600         Concluding/Closing Comments

Evening            Farewell Dinner (venue to be announced).

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