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European Yearfor Development

2015

13.03.2015Hotel Metropole , Brussels

Brainstorming on challengesfor International Cooperation

and Development


2015 European Year for Development

Meeting to be conducted under Chatham House rules Working language: English

AGENDA

8:30 - 9:00 Welcome coffee9:00 - 9:03 Welcome by Commissioner Mimica9:03 - 9:15 Introduction by the Moderator for the day on the functioning modalities

of the Brainstorming - Ms Shada Islam, Director of Policy at Friends of Europe

9:15 - 10:45 THEME: Gender

Keynote speakers

• Prof. Gary Barker Phd, leading voice on engaging men and boys in achieving gender equality and ending violence against women and International Director and Founder of Promundo (international NGO that promotes gender justice).

• Prof. Sylvia Walby Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University and UNESCO Chair on Gender Research.

Questions to be addressed

• Why has there been such a slow progress on gender equality? • Does mainstreaming work? • What could be done better? • Are there any sector specific proposals: e.g. gender in agriculture, in good governance,

in energy, in the right to have property or to start a business etc.?

Open discussion

10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 - 13:00 THEME: Inequalities

Keynote speaker

• Ms. Claire Kumar Development Consultant and Author of the report ‘Africa Rising: Inequalities and the essential role of fair taxation’.


• Key findings of the recently published report ‘Africa Rising: Inequalities and the essential role of fair taxation’ report. • Other forms of inequalities, apart from financial, e.g. access to education, right to vote etc, and how development

cooperation should address these issues.

Open discussion

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch

1 Hotel Metropole, Place de Brouckère 31, 1000 Brussel, Phone: 02 217 23 00



14:30 - 17:00 AFTERNOON SESSION - TWO THEMES: Security and Migration

Keynote speakers on Security

• Dr. Nazila Ghanea Associate Professor in International Human Rights Law, University of Oxford

• Prof. James Gow Professor of International Peace and Security, Department of War Studies, King’s College, London


• How to address marginalisation/radicalisation?• How to make social inclusion more effective?• The role of cultural diplomacy and better understanding between cultures?• The role of the media to promote peaceful societies?

Keynote speakers on Migration

• Dr. Melissa Siegel Head Migration Studies Training & Research Projects, Associate Professor Senior Researcher, Maastricht Graduate School of Governance UNU-MERIT

• Prof. Ivan Martín Professor, Migration Policy Centre, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute - Florence

Questions to be addressed• How do developments in the South effect migration to the North (and vice versa)? • How does the impact of South-South migration on development (positive and negative impacts,

ways to maximise the positive ones) manifest itself, trends and how development cooperation should address these issues?

Open discussion

17:00 - 17:30 CONCluSIONS

DISCuSSANTS

• Mr. Jose Manuel Briosa e Gala Special Advisor to Commissioner Mimica, European Commission

• Dr. Giovanni Grevi Director, FRIDE, a European Think Tank for Global Action

• Dr. Patrick Guillaumont President of Fondation pour les Etudes et Recherches sur le Développement International (Ferdi) and Emeritus Professor at the University of Auvergne

• Mr. Geert Laporte Deputy Director of the European Centre for Development Policy Management

• Dr. Frank La Rue ex UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, Nobel prize nominee

• Mr. Simon Maxwell Senior Research Associate of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

• Prof. Dr Dirk Messner Director, DIE (German Development Institute)

• Prof. Finn Tarp Director of the UN University in Helsinki

• Dr. Kevin Watkins Director, Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

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EuROpEAN COMMISSION pARTICIpANTS AND EEAS1 Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development Mr. Commissioner Neven MIMICA

Commissioner Mimica Cabinet

2 Head of Commissioner Mimica Cabinet Mr. Nils BEHRNDT 3 Deputy Head of Commissioner Mimica Cabinet Mme. Irena ANDRASSY4 Member of Commissioner Mimica Cabinet Mme. Maud ARNOULD5 Member of Commissioner Mimica Cabinet Mr. Paolo BERIZZI6 Member of Commissioner Mimica Cabinet Mme. Maria-Myrto KANELLOPOULOU7 Member of Commissioner Mimica Cabinet Mr. Denis ČAJO

Directorate General for International Cooperation and Development

8 Director General M. Fernando FRUTUOSO DE MELO9 Assistant to the Director General Mme. Agnieszka SKURATOWICZ10 Deputy Director General, Policy and Thematic Coordination Mr. Klaus RUDISCHHAUSER11 Assistant to Deputy Director General, Policy and Thematic Coordination Mme. Aurelie GODEFROY12 Deputy Director General, Geographic Coordination M. Marcus CORNARO13 Assistant to Deputy Director General, Geographic Coordination Mme. Sarah RINALDI14 Principal Advisor, Outreach in development Mme. Androulla KAMINARA15 Director, DEVCO A, EU Development Policy M. Gustavo MARTIN PRADA16 Director, DEVCO B, Human and Society Development Mme. Lotte KNUDSEN17 Director DEVCO.C Sustainable Growth and Development M. Roberto RIDOLFI18 Director DEVCO.D East and Southern Africa and ACP Coordination M. Koen DOENS19 Director DEVCO.E West and Central Africa Mme. Carla MONTESI20 Director DEVCO.G Latin America and Caribbean Mme. Jolita BUTKEVICIENE21 Director DEVCO.H Asia, Central Asia, Middle East/Gulf and Pacific M. Pierre AMILHAT22 Director DEVCO.R Resources in Headquarters and in Delegations M. Luc BAGUR

HRVp Mogherini Cabinet – European External Action Service

23 Member of Cabinet Mogherini Mr. Stefano MANSERVISI 24 Member of Cabinet Mogherini Mr. Felix FERNANDEZ-SHAW

Commissioner Hahn Cabinet Directorate General European Neighbourhood policy and Enlargement Negotiations (NEAR)

25 Member of Cabinet Hahn TBC26 DG NEAR TBC

Commissioner Stylianides Cabinet European Commission’s Humanitarian aid and Civil protection department (ECHO)

27 Member of Cabinet Stylianides Mrs. ZAMBARTA Myrto 28 DG ECHO TBC

European political Strategy Centre

29 European Political Strategy Centre Mrs. Sonia NETO

BIOGRApHIES9:03 - 9:15 INTRODuCTION

Ms. Shada Islam

Shada Islam is responsible for policy oversight of Friends of Europe’s initiatives, activities and publications. She has special responsibility for the Asia Programme and for the Development Policy Forum which represents a coalition of leading international cooperation agencies which engage in regular policy debates, conferences and briefings on relevant and topical related to development. Shada is the former Europe correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review and has also worked extensively for the BBC and DPA, the German wire service, on development questions including relations between the EU and African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states as well as on world trade, including the Doha Round. Shada continues to write on EU foreign and security policy, EU-Asia relations and trade and development issues for leading Asian, European and international publications.

9:15 - 10:45 THEME: Gender

prof. Gary Barker

Gary Barker, PhD, is a leading voice on engaging men and boys in gender equality and ending violence against women. He is International Director and founder of Promundo, an international NGO with offices in Brazil, Rwanda, Portugal and the US that works nationally and globally in engaging men and boys for gender equality. He has led research and program development with men and boys in the Balkans, Brazil, South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, Central America, the Caribbean and the US, including in post-conflict settings. He is co-chair and co-founder of MenEngage, a global alliance of more than 400 NGOs and UN agencies working to engage men and boys in gender equality, and a member of the UN Secretary General’s Men’s Leaders Network to end violence against women. He holds a research appointment at the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal. He coordinates the International

Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES), the largest study of its kind on men and gender equality.

prof. Sylvia Walby

Sylvia Walby is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and UNESCO Chair in Gender Research, Lancaster University, UK. She researches on a wide range of issues concerning gender equality, including the economic crisis, gender mainstreaming, and gender-based violence. She is currently working on a project on the gender dimension of trafficking for the European Commission, and has recently researched the cost of gender based violence for the European Institute for Gender Equality. Recent books include: Globalization and Inequalities: Complexity and Contested Modernities (Sage 2009) and The Future of Feminism (Polity 2011). Her next book is the jointly authored Stopping Rape: Towards a Comprehensive Policy (forthcoming Policy Press 2015), which draws on work for the European Parliament. This will be followed by Crisis for Polity Press (forthcoming 2015). Her web-site is: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/sociology/profiles/Sylvia-Walby

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BIOGRApHIES11:15 - 13:00 THEME: Inequalities

Ms. Claire Kumar

Claire has worked for almost 20 years in development. Most of her experience has been in Latin America and the Caribbean before moving to Rwanda several years ago. She has worked for a range of international NGOs including Traidcraft where she worked as a Market Access Advisor supporting small businesses and Christian Aid where she was economic policy advisor for the Latin America team for 7 years. More recently Claire has been working as a freelance consultant. Her work spans both social and economic policy issues with clients ranging from international NGOs, to UNICEF and various Rwandan ministries. She has published on a broad range of subjects including private sector development, inequality and taxation issues. Recent projects have included working with Tax Justice Network-Africa on their tax and inequality agenda as well as working with Transparency and Accountability Initiative - a collaborative of

donors – on a global scoping study of funding opportunities related to tax and development. She is currently working on a research project with Save the Children looking at fiscal policy in Rwanda and particularly at how domestic resource mobilisation is supporting investment in social sectors in the country.

14:30 - 17:00 AFTERNOON SESSION - TWO THEMES: Security and Migration

Dr. Nazila Ghanea

Dr Nazila Ghanea is an Associate Professor of International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford and serves as a member of the OSCE Panel of Experts on freedom of religion or belief. She serves on the Board of Governors of the Universal Rights Group and is an Associate Director of Oxford Human Rights Hub. She has authored, co-authored and edited a number of academic and UN publications including: Religion or Belief, Discrimination and Equality: Britain in Global Contexts and Human Rights, the UN and the Bahá’ís in Iran. She is co-author, along with Heiner Bielefeldt and Michael Wiener, of a forthcoming Oxford University Press monograph and recently completed a research grant looking at the domestic effects of UN treaty ratification on the member states of the GCC.

prof. James Gow

James Gow is Professor of International Peace and Security and Co-Director of the War Crimes Research Group at King’s College London, where he has been since 1990. He is a non-resident scholar with the Liechtenstein Institute, Princeton University and previously lectured in European Studies at the University of Hatfield. In the 1990s, he led several EC-funded projects on security and democracy. Between 1994 and 1998, he served as an expert advisor and an expert witness for the Office of the Prosecutor at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, where he was the first ever witness at an international criminal tribunal, and has since returned as a witness. He has also served as an Expert Advisor to the UK Secretary of State for Defence and contributed to three strategic and security reviews. Professor Gow has held visiting positions at, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C.,

Columbia University, Princeton University, and the University of Sheffield. His numerous publications include War and War Crimes; Militancy and Violence in West Africa; Prosecuting War Crimes: Lessons and Legacies of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia; and Security, Democracy and War Crimes (as co-author) all in 2013.

His current research focuses on war crimes; on the challenges scientific and technological innovation to international law, co-funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory; on reconciliation; and on political community. In 2012, Professor Gow won a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship for the period 2013-2016.

Dr. Melissa Siegel

Dr. Melissa Siegel currently works as an Associate Professor and Head of Migration Studies at the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance and UNU-MERIT where she heads the Migration and Development research group of UNU-MERIT and the Migration and Development research theme of the Maastricht Center for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE). She currently holds positions as a Research Associate at the Center on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) and an Associated Researchers at the International Migration Institute (IMI) at the University of Oxford. She manages several migration research projects, coordinates the Migration Studies Specialization and Migration Management Diploma Program while lecturing and supervising Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD students. She has worked on or headed projects for Governments, International Organizations and NGOs such as the Dutch Ministry of Social

Affairs, the Dutch Ministry of Finance, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dutch Ministry of Interior, the IOM, UNHCR, ILO, GIZ, Oxfam Novib and others. She is also regularly involved in migration-related trainings for Governments and International Organizations (i.e. UNICEF, UNRWA, EIPA, Dutch Government, Iranian Government) as well as teaching in the United States, Malaysia, Mozambique, Afghanistan and Suriname. She previously worked for Utrecht School of Economics and has held Visiting Research Fellowships at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and at the International Migration Institute at the University of Oxford. She has several publications in the area of migration studies mainly focused on the causes and consequences of migration with a strong focus on migration and development issues.

prof. Iván Martín

Iván Martín is economist. He is Professor at the Migration Policy Centre of the European University Institute, where he is Key Expert on Labour Migration in the framework of the ETEM V Project (External Technical Expertise on Migration to DG DEVCO). Formerly, he has been Senior Research Fellow at CIDOB in Barcelona (2014), Associate Research Fellow at the Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales in Madrid (2008-2013), Research Administrator at the College of Europe (Natolin, Poland) (2010-2011), Director of the Socio-Economic Forum of Casa Árabe (Arab House) in Spain (2006-2008) and Associate Professor at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2002-2006). He has coordinated several international research projects and since 2010 he has worked as consultant on labour migration and youth employment for the International Organization for Migration, the International Labour Organization, the

European Training Foundation, the Anna Lindh Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures and the Union for the Mediterranean Secretariat, mainly in Southern Mediterranean Countries and Sub-Saharan Africa.



BIOGRApHIESDISCuSSANTS

Mr. José Manuel Briosa e Gala

Mr. José Manuel Briosa e Gala is a Portuguese lawyer who holds post-graduate Master’s Degrees in Philosophy and in Management at University of Lisbon. Mr. Briosa e Gala was Secretary of State for Cooperation responsible for the development cooperation policy and humanitarian assistance of Portugal from 1992 to 1995. At national level he was also in charge of the Portuguese foreign policy regarding the African continent. In this context he was also intensively involved in the peace processes in Angola and Mozambique, given Portugal’s engagement as a diplomatic observer under the auspices of the United Nations. Mr. Briosa e Gala also represented his country in key international development conferences such as the Cairo UN Conference on Population and Development and the World Conference on Women in Beijing. In April 2007, Mr. Briosa e Gala was appointed by the President of the European

Commission, Mr. José Manuel Barroso, as his Special Advisor and Personal Representative for Africa in the Africa Partnership Forum. From 2011 to 2014 he was board member of African Legal Support Facility (hosted at African Development Bank)

Dr. GIovanni Grevi

Giovanni Grevi is director of FRIDE, where he worked as senior researcher and head of the Brussels office from 2010 to 2012. Before joining FRIDE, Giovanni served as senior research fellow at the EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) in Paris between 2005 and 2010. Prior to that, he worked at the European Policy Centre in Brussels as policy analyst (1998 to 2002) and as associate director of studies (2002-2005). He holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and a PhD from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. At FRIDE, his research focuses on EU foreign and security policy, EU partnerships with the US and emerging countries, the reform of global governance and foresight projects. Publications and major research projects include ‘The new global puzzle: what world for the EU in 2025?’ (2006, co-directed with N. Gnesotto); ‘The interpolar world: a new scenario’ (2009);

‘European Security and Defence Policy: the first ten years 1999-2009’ (co-edited with D. Keohane and D. Helly, 2009); ‘Global governance 2025: at a critical juncture’ (EUISS – US National Intelligence Council, 2010); the ‘European Strategic Partnerships Observatory’ (www.strategicpartnerships.eu) and ‘Empowering Europe’s future: governance, power and options for the EU in a changing world’ (co-directed with D. Keohane, B. Lee and P. Lewis, 2013).


Dr. patrick Guillaumont

Patrick Guillaumont, President of the Fondation pour les Etudes et Recherches sur le Développement International (Ferdi), is Emeritus Professor at the University of Auvergne, member of Cerdi (Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International), he founded in 1976, and director-founder of the Revue d’Economie du Développement. He is also a member of the European Development Network (EUDN) and Fellow of the Oxford Center for Studies on African Economies (CSAE). Patrick Guillaumont was a member of the Committee of Development Policy at the United Nations (CDP) from 1987 to 2009, where he chaired from 1997 to 2009 various expert groups on the identification criteria of the LDCs (Least Developed Countries). He has been a member of many advisory international committees and has worked for various foreign governments and international institutions, including as a special advisor

of the European Development Commissioner. Patrick Guillaumont has published many books on development and around two hundred papers, in a wide set of economic journals. Present research is focused on development finance, official development assistance (aid allocation criteria), vulnerability and the Least Developed Countries. A revised edition of his book Caught in a Trap, Identifying the least developed countries will be published with its forthcoming companion volume Out of the trap. Supporting the least developed countries. Also forthcoming the book edited with Matthieu Boussichas Financing Sustainable Development: Addressing Vulnerabilities.

Mr. Geert laporte

Geert Laporte, a Belgian national, is the Deputy Director of The European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) a “think and do tank” based in Maastricht and Brussels that specializes in EU development and external relations with a particular focus on Africa. He is responsible for ECDPM’s relations with the EU institutions, EU Presidencies and EU member states, the African Union, the ACP institutions and a broad network of partners in different parts of the world. His thematic areas of interest and specialization include EU external action and development policy, the EU-ACP Cotonou Partnership Agreement and the Joint Africa-EU Strategy with a particular focus on the political dimensions of international cooperation, support to democratization and governance, conflict and development, policy coherence for development, regional integration and innovative financing for development. He has been

involved in extensive policy research, institutional audits, evaluations and publications on various aspects of EU-ACP and EU-Africa relations. He has also built a longstanding experience in policy dialogue facilitation and institutional and capacity development. Prior to joining ECDPM in 1990 he has worked for several years as a research fellow and later as an assistant at the Centre for Third World Studies at the University of Ghent in Belgium, where he mainly worked on the management of international cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean. Geert Laporte holds a Master in Contemporary History and a Master in Development Studies with specialization in Public Administration from the University of Ghent where he is also a Guest Professor.




Dr. Frank laRue

Frank LaRue, Director for the RFK Center for Human Rights Europe, Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection for the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, appointed by the UN Human Rights Council in 2008. At present he is the member of the Board of Directors of the DEMOS Institute, an NGO that works on the promotion of democratic values and provides support to the participation of youth, women and indigenous peoples in Guatemala. He has a wide experience in Human Rights, Democratic Development, Social Communication, Education, Latin American Analysis and political issues. Human Rights Lawyer in cases presented to the Interamerican Human Rights Commission and the Interamerican Human Rights Court and lobbying before the United Nations System on Human Rights. University professor, and Human Rights investigator. Member of the Google Advisory Council, and Pioneer Award winner 2014, granted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Dr. Mr. Simon Maxwell

Simon Maxwell is a development economist, who has worked internationally since 1970. He worked for ten years overseas, in Kenya, India and Bolivia, then for fifteen years at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, latterly as Programme Manager for Poverty, Food Security and the Environment. In 1997, Simon became Director of the Overseas Development Institute, the UK’s leading independent think-tank on international development and humanitarian issues. In 2009, he became a Senior Research Associate of the ODI. From 2001-5, Simon was President of the Development Studies Association of the UK and Ireland. In 2007, he was made a CBE, for services to international development.

prof. Dr. Dirk Messner

Prof. Dr. Dirk Messner, has been Director of the “German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)” since 2003. He is also Co-Director of the “Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research”, University Duisburg-Essen, which was established in 2012. Dirk Messner completed numerous research stays in Asia, Latin America and the U.S. in the past 20 years, directed many international research programs in the field of Global Sustainability and Global Governance and thus created a dense international research network. Based on his research, Dirk Messner is engaged in high-ranking policy advisory councils. For example, he is Co-Chair (since 2013) of the “German Advisory Council on Global Change” (“Wissenschaftlicher Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen” (WBGU)) and member of the “China Council on Global Cooperation on Development and

Environment“. Also, he is a member of the “Global Knowledge Advisory Commission” of the World Bank and member of the European Commissions’ “Scientific Advisory Board for EU Development Policy”. Dirk Messner studied political science and economics at the Freien Universität Berlin and the Sogang University of Seoul/ South Korea. Kevin Watkins


prof. Finn Tarp

Finn Tarp is Professor of Development Economics at the University of Copenhagen; and since 2009 Director of the UNU World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER). He has more than 35 years of experience in academic and applied development economics, including 20 years of work in some 35 developing countries. Finn Tarp is a leading international expert on issues of development strategy and foreign aid; and he was appointed to the Council of Eminent Persons (CEP) advising the Chief Economist of the World Bank in 2013. For further information (including a detailed CV with publications) see: www.econ.ku.dk/ftarp.

Dr. Kevin Watkins

Kevin Watkins is Executive Director of the Overseas Development Institute. He is a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a senior visiting research fellow at the Global Economic Governance Programme at Oxford University. Previously, he was the director and lead author of UNESCO’s Education for All Global Monitoring Report (2007 to 2010) and the UNDP Human Development Report, where he led the research on reports covering global poverty and inequality, the global water crisis, and climate change. Prior to working with the United Nations, he worked for thirteen years with Oxfam, where he authored major reports on African debt, international trade and Oxfam’s Education Report. He holds a BA in Politics and Social Science from Durham University and a doctorate from Oxford University. His research interests include poverty and inequality, education, approaches to equity in public spending and inclusive economic growth.

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