United Nations General Assembly
Special Session Copenhagen+5
Geneva, 26-30 June, 2000

Special Event
on Development Cooperation

How can
development cooperation
help implement
the commitments of the Social Summit?

28 June 2000

International Labour Organization
Governing Body Room
4, route de Morillons
Geneva

Programme

8.30 Registration

9.30       Opening remarks:Juan Somavia, Director General, ILO

First Session: Results of the International Seminars on Human Development

Chair and introduction:François Trémeaud, Executive Director, ILO, & Director of ILO Turin Centre

Report on the regional seminar for Latin America

Nuvia Z. de Jarpa, Director General of Social Policies, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Panama

Report on the regional seminar for sub-Saharan Africa

Virgilia dos Santos Matabele, Minister for Women and Social Action Coordination, Mozambique

Report on the regional seminar for Mediterranean and Eastern Europe

François Bary, Unit Director, Luxembourg Agency for Development Cooperation

 

Second Session: Results of the International Working Groups

10.30 Chair and introduction:Noeleen Heyzer, Director, UNIFEM

Decentralized cooperation for human development

Introduction:
Claudio Martini, President, Tuscany Region, Italy

Rapporteur:
Marcelo Nowersztern, Executive Director, United Towns Organization

Local economic development

        Introduction:
        Osvaldo Martinez, Director, International Centre for the World Economy, Cuba

        Rapporteur:
        Josè Maria Esperanza Amaya,
        Vice-President, Local Economic Development Agency, ADEMISS, El Salvador

Cooperation to reduce social exclusion

      Introduction:
       Jorge Perez, Executive Director, Office of the President of Guatemala

       Rapporteur:
       Franco Rotelli, Coordinator, International Network of the Practices of Fight Against
       Social Exclusion, Italy

Training and innovation for human development

     Introduction:
     Edi Rama, Minister of  Culture, Albania

     Rapporteur:
     Francisco Cajiao, Colombian Universities’ Association

Human development indicators

    Introduction:
     Carlo Malaguerra, Director, Swiss Federal Statistical Office

     Rapporteur:
     Hasan Abu-Libdeh, Director, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

Social Watch: experience and perspective

     Rapporteur:
     Roberto Bissio, Director, Third World Institute, Uruguay
                             & Secretariat of Social Watch

11.50 Discussion

12.15 Conclusions of the morning session: Stephen Browne, Director, Social Development and Poverty Elimination Division, UNDP

Third Session: Round Table

"How can development cooperation help
implement the commitments of the Social Summit ?"

14.30 Chairperson: Nitin Desai, UN Undersecretary General and Director of UNDESA

     Statement by Jaime David Fernandez Mirabal, Vice-President of the Dominican Republic

     Participants: 

• Claude Evin, Former Minister of Social Affairs and Health, France, in charge of Cooperation on behalf of the Parliament
• Aldo Ernesto Isuani, Secretary of State for Senior Citizens and Social Action, Argentina
• Chedly Neffati, Minister of Social Affairs, Tunisia
• Albino Malungo, Minister of Social Affairs, Angola
• Ermelinda Meksi, Minister for Economic Cooperation and Trade, Albania
• Manuel Pascoal Mocumbi, Prime Minister, Mozambique
• Poul Nielson, Development Commissioner, European Union
• Anne K. Sydnes, Minister for International Development, Norway
• Raúl Taladrid, Deputy Minister for Foreign Investment and Economic Collaboration, Cuba

     Conclusions: Lamberto Dini, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Italy

17:30 Signature of the Trust Fund Agreement “Promotion of Decent Work through Training for Development and Innovation - Universitas”

Lamberto Dini, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Italy
and
Juan Somavia, Director General, ILO

Cocktail