The Conference Programme 2-3 Oct 2006

Day 1 Monday 2 October 2006

8.30 Registration of participants - Coffee

9.00 Interventions of:

Paula Lehtomäki, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development, Finland

Anders Wijkman, Member of the European Parliament

Jari Vilén, Chair of Grand Committee of the Finnish Parliament

Francoise Moreau, Head of Unit on Development Policy, Coherence and Forward Studies at the DG Development, European Commission

Chair: Aki Temisevä, Chair of KEHYS Rilli Lappalainen, Secretary General of KEHYS

10.15 Coffee

10.45 Overviews to Coherence – Status, Goals and Measures

Federico Cuello Camilo, Ambassador of the Dominican Republic to the European Communities: Southern perspective: How should the needs of developing countries be integrated to the development of coherence?

Paul Engel, Director, European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM): EU Mechanisms that promote policy coherence for development Christian Egenhofer, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS): Policy coherence for Development in the EU Council: Strategies for the way forward

Alexandra Trzeciak-Duval, Head, OECD Policy Co-ordination Division: Institutional Mechanisms to Promote Policy Coherence

Eva Christina Nilsson, Vice-President of CONCORD: Role of NGOs in policy coherence development

Chair: Ritva Koukku-Ronde, Director General at the Department for Development Policy, Ministry for Foreign Affairs Finland

12.30 Lunch

14.00 Thematic approaches to coherence: working groups

development and security development and HIV/AIDS development and migration development and trade development and environment

18.00 Advisory boards as tools for promoting policy coherence - what makes the Development Policy Committee of Finland stand out?

Gunvor Kronman, Chair of the Finnish Development Policy Committee

18.50 Transportation to the welcome cocktail

19.30 Welcome cocktail offered by the European Commission Representation in Finland

Day 2 Tuesday 3 October 2006

9.00 Wrap-up by Mikaela Gavas, Chair of Policy Working group of CONCORD

9.15 Thematic approaches to coherence: working groups

development and security development and HIV/AIDS development and migration development and trade development and environment

12.30 Lunch

13.45 Plenary session: results of the working groups

Chair: Duncan Campbell, Director of the Policy Integration Department of the International Labour Office

15.15 Coffee

15.30 Presentation of conference recommendations by drafting committee

Conclusions by Risto Volanen, State Secretary at the Prime Minister’s Office

Chair: Aki Temisevä, Chair of KEHYS

NOTE

16.30 Campaign Action, Kamppi Centre, Salomonkatu

Football match between FC Europe and FC South: demostrating trade negotiations with a match with unfair circumstances

Handing over EPA postcards to Paula Lehtomäki, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development, Finland

The event is organized by the Changemaker Network in collaboration with the Finnish Service Centre for Development Cooperation and KEHYS, the Finnish NGDO Platform to the EU