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Forum
Program
Forum 2003: Save the Date, May
19 - 21, 2003
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Each
year in June, more than 500 emerging and established
leaders from the North and the South gather at InterAction’s
annual Forum. Representatives from the NGO community,
government, and the private sector come together to
discuss their work and to exchange ideas. Always cutting-edge,
this year’s Forum will facilitate dialogue on issues
surrounding a particularly timely question: Are we as
leaders and practitioners in international relief and
development prepared to face the challenges that our
work will bring in the first decade of the 21st century?
June
3
Luncheon Plenary Speaker: Mark Malloch Brown, Administrator,
UN Development Program
12:15 - 2:00 PM
Awards Dinner Emcee: Margaret Warner, Sr. Correspondent
for the Lehrer News Hour
6:30 - 8:30 PM
June 4
Luncheon Plenary Speaker: James D. Wolfensohn,
President, World Bank Group
12:30 - 2:15 PM
June 5
Plenary Speaker: Andrew
Natsios, Administrator, USAID
10:30 AM - Noon
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Please check back periodically as this section will
be frequently updated.
For specific questions, please email forum@interaction.org
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Monday
June 3
Tuesday June 4
Wednesday June 5
MONDAY
JUNE 3
8:30-10:45
WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS
Commission
on the Advancement of Women’s Annual Breakfast, Georgetown
Diversity at the Top: Reconfiguring Senior Management,
Transforming Boards of Directors.
Moderator: Sam Worthington, National Executive
Director and CEO, Childreach
Sarah Newhall, President and CEO, PACT
Facilitator:
Meredith Richardson, President and Co-Founder,
New Global Solutions
Panelists: Jennifer Henderson, Chair,
Ben and Jerry's and President, Strategic Interventions,
Inc.
Julie Oyegun, Director of Diversity, World Bank
Steve Hofman, Senior Advisor to the Council for
the Advancement of Women, Deloitte and Touche
A panel of organizational change pioneers from the corporate
sector, multilaterals, and the NGO community will share
their experiences in promoting gender equality and diversity
at the executive and board levels; in the tradition of
the annual CAW breakfast, participants will have the opportunity
to discuss how these practical “lessons learned” can apply
to their own organizations.
Disaster
Response Committee Meeting
Semi-annual InterAction Disaster Response Committee
Business Meeting
Open to Committee members
and guests only, please
Moderators: Nancy Lindborg, Disaster Response
Committee Co-chair
Rick Augsburger, Disaster Response Committee
Co-chair
Panelists: Arthur E. "Gene" Dewey,
Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of State
Roger Winter, Assistant Administrator, USAID
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10:00-7:00 EXHIBIT
HALL OPEN
11:00-12:15 INTERACTION
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING
12:15-2:00
LUNCHEON: OPENING PLENARY
Mark Malloch Brown, Administrator,
United Nations Development Program
Mark Malloch Brown,
Administrator, United Nations Development Program, was appointed
to his post in 1999. Prior to joining the UNDP, he served
as the Vice President for External Affairs for the World Bank
as well as the Vice President for United Nations Affairs.
Administrator Brown is active in human rights and refugee issues
and has worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
in various posts. He also founded the monthly Economist
Development Report.
2:30-5:00
WORKSHOPS
Linking Development Financing with Development Effectiveness,
Part I
Moderator:
Nancy Birdsall, President, Center for Global Development
Panelists: Alan Larson, Under Secretary
for Economics, Business, and Agriculture, US Department
of State (invited)
Dr. Kadi Sesay, Minister, Sierra Leone Ministry
of Development and Economic Planning (invited)
Shantayanan Devarajan, Chief Economist, Human Development
Network, World Bank (invited)
Irfan ul Haque, Independent Consultant
The year 2002 has seen significant debates about how to
achieve development, with the role of official development
assistance prominently featured in those debates. This
first of two sessions will explore ideas emerging from
recent international conferences and movements regarding
development assistance and its effectiveness.
Sphere
Workshop: Introduction and Update
Moderator:
Nan Buzard, Sphere Project Manager
Panelists: George Devendorf, Director
of Emergency Operations, Mercy Corps
Mark Janz, Associate Director for Emergency Response,
World Vision International
Nils Kastberg, Director of Emergency Programs, UNICEF
Paula Lynch, Deputy Director, Office of Policy &
Resource Planning, State Department/BPRM
Learn more
about the substance, status and impact of the Sphere
Project's Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards
in Disaster Response. Discuss current Phase III activities
and those foreseen beyond Phase III.
How
a Story Moves: The Story Behind the News Story
Moderator: Shanta M. Bryant, Director
of Media Relations, InterAction
Panelists: Candy Crowley, Cable News
Network
Ted Clark, National Public Radio
Roy Gutman, Newsweek
A glimpse into how a newsroom operates, deadline pressures,
and the mind of journalists and editors.
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5:30-6:30 RECEPTION
6:30-8:30 SEVENTH
ANNUAL INTERACTION HUMANITARIAN AND JOURNALISM AWARDS
DINNER
Emcee: Margaret Warner
Margaret Warner is a chief Washington Correspondent for The NewsHour
with Jim Lehrer a nightly news program that interviews newsmakers,
policymakers and opinion leaders. Prior to joining The NewsHour
with Jim Lehrer in 1993 she served ten years at Newsweek Magazine
and was a regular panelist on television commentary shows. Her
print journalism career led her to positions with The Wall Street
Journal, The San Diego Union and The Concord Monitor. Ms. Warner
has been recognized with several awards for her reporting on international
and political issues.
THE INTERACTION
AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN INTERNATIONAL REPORTING
Recipient: Elisabeth Rosenthal, The New York Times
Elisabeth Rosenthal is the science correspondent for the Beijing
bureau of the New York Times and wrote a series of articles on
HIV/AIDS in China. Trained as a medical doctors, Dr. Rosenthal's
Journalism career has revolved around science. She has been a
contributing Editor and Columnist to Discover Magazine and an
Associate Editor, Senior Editor and Contributing Editor for Science
Digest Magazine.
THE INTERACTION
HUMANITARIAN AWARD
Recipient: Awut Deng Acuil
Sudan has been engulfed in the longest, and deadliest on-going
civil war in the world -- over forty years. Awut Deng has served
as a Women's Peace Mobilizer to the New Sudan Council of Churches,
training fellow Sudanese in conflict resolution and peace building.
She has been instrumental in the People-to-People Peace Process
as the Secretary of Information on the Dinka-Nuer West Bank Peace
Council, contributing to the reconciliation of the two largest
ethnic groups in conflict in Southern Sudan. She is also a founding
member of the Sudanese Women Association of Nairobi (SWAN) and
the Sudanese Women Voice for Peace.
THE MILDRED ROBBINS
LEET AWARD FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN
The annual Mildred
Robbins Leet Award recognizes InterAction member agencies’ progress
towards greater gender equity in programs an in management. This
year’s awards recognize member agencies for the past year’s cutting-edge
work in gender equity and leadership in this area. The awards
are presented by the Co-Chairs of InterAction’s Commission on
the Advancement of Women.
TUESDAY
JUNE 4
7:30-8:30 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST with Exhibitors
8:00-3:00 EXHIBIT
HALL OPEN
8:30-10:45
WORKSHOPS
Responding to Mega-crises: An Afghan Retrospective
Moderator:
Nancy Lindborg, Executive Vice President,
Mercy Corps
Panelists: Stephen Tomlin, Vice President
for International Operations, International Medical
Corps
Gerald R. Martone, Director of Emergency Response,
Refugees International (invited)
Bernd "Bear" McConnell, Director, Central
Asia Task Force, USAID
Joel McClellan, Executive Secretary, Steering
Committee for Humanitarian Response
Examine the multiple dimensions and actors that
shape the response to complex humanitarian emergencies
through the lens of the Afghan crisis.
Food
Security and Agriculture in Africa
Moderator:
Daniel Karanja, Bread for the World
Panelists: Joshua Walton, Senior Vice
President, ACDI/VOCA
Mary Mwingira, Executive Director, Tanzania Association
of NGOs (TANGO)
David Nielson, The World Bank
Sub-Saharan
Africa is the only region in the world that continues
to experience both declining per capita food production
and increasing hunger and poverty. This workshop will
explore factors that adversely affect Africa's food
security and suggest institutions, policies and strategies
needed to promote sustainable agricultural and economic
growth in Africa as well as address issues that may
be pertinent to the agenda of two forthcoming international
meetings focused on hunger and Africa, the World Food
+5 and the G-7 Summit meetings.
A
teachable moment? NGOs Engaging the Public in their
Work: Why & Why Now?
Moderator: David Devlin-Foltz, Director,
Global Interdependence Initiative, The Aspen Institute
Panelists:
Douglas Bourn, Director, Development
Education Association ( London
, England
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Peggy Connolly, Director of Communications,
Oxfam America
Samuel Worthington, National Executive Director
and CEO, Childreach/Plan
Adam Hicks, Vice President Marketing and Communications,
CARE
After all the talk about a "teachable moment,"
is the US
public really more receptive to
development assistance than it was before September
11 brought home our connectedness to other countries?
Will donors keep giving if we talk about long-term relationships
rather than short-term humanitarian responses?
Will donors become advocates for our work? Come hear
from CEOs and senior staff why some PVOs are seizing
this moment to invest in a better informed public conversation
about the US
role in promoting just and sustainable
development.
Please note a separate
follow-up session will be held at 5:00 PM in conference
room 3016, and will focus on effective programs in this
country and Europe.
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11:00-12:30 INTERACTION
BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
12:30-2:15
LUNCHEON: PLENARY SPEAKER
James D. Wolfensohn, President, The
World Bank Group
James D. Wolfensohn
has served as the President, The World Bank Group since 1995.
During his tenure, Mr. Wolfensohn has traveled to over
100 countries to view the Bank’s development projects and to form
strategic partnerships between the Bank and the governments it
serves, the private sector, civil society, regional development
banks and the United Nations.
Prior to joining the Bank, Wolfensohn was an international
investment banker with his own firm from 1981-95. He also held
senior positions with Salomon Brothers, Schroders Ltd in London
and Darling and Co. of Australia.
Mr. Wolfensohn is very active in cultural and volunteer
activities and currently serves as the Chair of the Board of the
Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, as an Honorary
Trustee of the Brookings Institution, and is a member of the Council
on Foreign Relations and the Century Association.
2:30-4:30
WORKSHOPS
Linking Development Financing with Development Effectiveness,
Part II
Informing Policy with Practice: A Multi-Stakeholder
Panel
Moderator:
Jo Marie Griesgraber,
Policy Director, Oxfam America
Panelists: Marie Shaba, Chairperson, Tanzania
Association of Non-Governmental Organizations (TANGO)
Lisa Jordan, Program Officer, Ford Foundation
John Cavanaugh, Director, Institute for Policy
Studies
Bishop Akolgo, Deputy Executive Director of the
Integrated Social Development Center (ISODEC)
Miguel Pickard,
Center of Economic
and Political Investigations for Community Action (CIEPAC),
Chiapas, Mexico
This second of two sessions will test the ideas discussed
in the first session against developing-country experience.
Practitioners and activists from countries of the global
South will bring to bear their familiarity with development
challenges upon the policy debate.
Assessment
of Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced
People (IDPs)
Moderator:
Fr. Richard Ryscavage, Director, Jesuit Refugee
Services
Panelists: Kofi Asomani, Special Coordinator
on Internal Displacement, UNOCHA
Joel McClellan, Executive Secretary, Steering
Committee for Humanitarian Response
Hugh Q. Parmer, President, American Refugee Committee
This year
the United Nations Secretary-General established a new
unit within the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian
Assistance as the most recent UN initiative to try to
ensure adequate protection and assistance for IDPs.
This session will examine the effectiveness of the IDP
Unit from UN and NGO points of view.
NGO
Effective Use of Technology: Understanding the Value
of New Technologies for NGO Development and Humanitarian
Work on the Ground
- How
are Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs)
revolutionizing how NGOs compete, partner and resolve
problems?
- How
can ICTs reduce the levels of competition and lead
to better partnering?
Moderator:
Mike Best, MIT
Media Lab and Media Lab Asia, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
Panelists: Holly Ladd, Executive Director,
Satellife
Rose Donna, Associate Business Operations Division,
International Services, American Red Cross
Melissa Pailthorp, Executive
Director, ASPiration (on behalf of Microsoft)
Tom Ewert, Director of Food Resources, Mercy
Corps
Dan Carr, Manager, PC Development and Support,
Catholic Relief Services
Charlotte
Kea, Director, Corporate Relations, International
Youth Foundation
This session
will address how information and communication technology
(ICTs) are being used successfully within our NGO community
to provide more effective and efficient services to
their beneficiaries. The session will include the analysis
of several case studies as well as a discussion of how
NGOs can work to increase their awareness of ICTs within
their organizational cultures to incorporate strategic
ICT thinking into their program models.
Meeting
the PVO Standards on Gender: Institutional Gender Audits
as a Resource for Change
Moderator: Patricia Morris, former
Deputy Director, Commission on Advancement of Women,
InterAction (Director
of Programs at Women for Women International as of January
3, 2005)
Panelists: Phyllis Craun-Selka, AIDS
Corps Coordinator, PACT
Angela McClain,
Administrative Assistant for Programs and Gender Coordinator,
PACT
Lealem Bernhanu, Country Programs Coordinator,
International Institute for Rural Reconstruction
Linda Wirth, Senior Gender Specialist, Bureau
for Gender Equality, International Labour Office
Hettie Walters, Co-Director, Gender and Development
Training Centre, Netherlands
This workshop will highlight the experience and successes
of various organizations in implementing institutional
self-assessment and action planning in support of gender
equity.
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WEDNESDAY
JUNE 5
7:30-8:30 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST with Exhibitors
8:00-1:00 EXHIBIT
HALL OPEN
8:30-10:15
WORKSHOPS
Assessing
Compliance with PVO Standards: The Absolutes versus Institutional
Goals
Moderator: Bruce Wilkinson, Senior Vice
President, World Vision
Panelists: Susan Sygall, Executive Director,
Mobility International USA
Sam Worthington, National Executive Director and
CEO, CHILDREACH/Plan International
Barkley Calkins, R.B. Calkins & Associates
Sarah Newhall, President and CEO, Pact
This session will examine lessons learned through the
ongoing child sponsorship accreditation pilot project
as well as efforts to help members meet the goals established
by the gender and disability amendments to the PVO Standards.
How
to do Effective Policy Advocacy
Moderator:
Cheryl Morden, Director of Policy and Communications,
International Center for Research on Women
Panelist: Ruth Eisenberg, Attorney, Harmon
Curran Spielberg and Eisenberg
John Ruthrauff, Advocacy Manager, Oxfam America
Mark Clack, Vice President, Government
Relations and Program Development, International Medical
Corps
This workshop
is designed to help participants learn tools and skills
for effective advocacy meetings with policymakers. Attendees
will hear from a lawyer about lobbying laws and a brief
overview of the hill. Then the attendees will get to
practice advocacy skills with the help of a professional
trainer.
Evaluation
as an Investment
Moderator:
Jim Rugh, Coordinator of Program Design, Monitoring
and Evaluation, CARE
Panelists: Lincoln Chen, Global Equity
Initiative at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University
Robert
Picciotto,
Director-General, Operations Evaluation, World Bank
Ken Phillips, Consultant, NGO Futures
Why is evaluation important? What does it contribute
to PVOs? What is its Return on Investment? This session
will explore how evaluation can provide a return in
improved program quality, a return in enhanced capacity
building, a return in expanded beneficiary participation,
and a return in improved organizational learning, as
well as a return in financial terms. On a related topic,
we will also consider how PVOs could use evaluation
to document their contributions to the achievement of
the Millennium Development Goals.
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10:30-12:00
PLENARY: Andrew
Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development
Andrew S. Natsios
is the Administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development.
His appointment in April 2001 follows a career of public service
and a commitment to humanitarian causes. Mr. Natsios served as
a Fellow at the U.S. Institute for Peace, as the Vice President
of World Vision and Assistant Administrator, Bureau of Food and
Humanitarian Assistance and Director of the Office of Foreign
Disaster Assistance for USAID. He has also served as a State Representative
for the Massachusetts House of Representatives and as the Chief
Financial and Administrative Officer for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Prior to his appointment to USAID he was the Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer for the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority.
1:00-2:30
CONGRESSIONAL AWARDS LUNCHEON:
At this session key Congressional supporters
will be recognized for their contributions to policy and funding
for international relief and development.
INTERACTION
CONGRESSIONAL SERVICE AWARD
Recipient:
The Honorable Constance Morella (R-MD)
Representative Morella is in her 8th term in the U.S. House of
Representatives. Her congressional career has focused on legislative
efforts concerning scientific research and development, education,
the federal workforce, equity for women, and the environment.
Representative Morella is the Chair of the Government Reform Subcommittee
on the District of Columbia. She is also a member of the House
Science Subcommittee on Environment, Technology and Standards
and was a former Co-Chair of the Congressional Caucus for Women's
Issues. InterAction honors Representative Morella for her outstanding
contribution to women and development issues. She has introduced
the GAINS Act of 2002 and the Afghan Access to Women Act and taken
a leadership role in bringing attention to the plight of Afghan
women. She has also been a leader on requesting for more funds
for fighting infectious diseases.
Recipient:
The Honorable Jim Kolbe (R-AZ)
Representative Kolbe is in his 9th term in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Representative Kolbe is the Chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee
on Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs.
He is also a senior member of the Subcommittee on the Interior
and Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice State and Judiciary. InterAction
honors Representative Kolbe for his outstanding leadership as
Chairman of the House Foreign Operations Subcommittee and specifically
for his attention to development and humanitarian assistance to
Afghanistan and increased funding for combating HIV/AIDS.
Recipient:
The Honorable Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
Senator Leahy is in his 5th term in the U.S. Senate. Prior to
becoming a Senator, Leahy served for 8 years at the State's Attorney
in Chittenden County, during which he was honored as one of three
outstanding prosecutors in the U.S. Senator Leahy Chairs the Judiciary
Committee, and is a senior member of the Agriculture and Appropriations
Committees. He also Chairs the Appropriations Subcommittee on
Foreign Operations and sits on its Defense, Interior, VA-HUD,
Commerce-Justice-State, and Transportation Subcommittees. InterAction
honors Senator Leahy for his outstanding contributions to international
development and humanitarian assistance in the areas of HIV/AIDS
and other infectious diseases and overall increased funding for
development and humanitarian assistance programs and for his leadership
on the Senate Foreign Operations Subcommittee
SPECIAL LEADERSHIP
AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS TO INTERNATIONAL AND HUMANITARIAN
ISSUES
Recipient:
The Honorable Tony Hall (D-OH)
Representative Hall is in his 12th term in the U.S. House of Representatives.
During his congressional career he has been nominated three times
for the Nobel Peace Prize for being a leading advocate for hunger
relief programs and improving international human rights conditions.
Representative Hall serves on the Committee on Rules and is the
Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Technology and the House.
He is the Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus Task Force on
Hunger and serves on the Steering Committee of the Congressional
Friends of Human Rights Monitors and is founder and Chairman of
the Congressional Hunger Center. InterAction honors Representative
Hall for his outstanding leadership on conflict diamonds, specifically
for elevating this issue on the national and international agenda
during his time in Congress and for his continuing work on behalf
of reducing hunger and long time support for international humanitarian
and development assistance
3:00-5:00
CAPITOL HILL VISITS.
InterAction members
will separate into small groups to meet with Members of Congress
and key staff, and reconvene afterward to share the results of
their visits.
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