LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE
MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS:
PERSPECTIVES FOR THE POST 2015
DEVELOPMENT AGENDA
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January 14-16, 2015
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Vienna International Centre
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
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8:00-9:45
Registration (Gate 1)
10:00-12:00
Opening Session
(Boardroom C, Building C, 4th Floor)
Welcoming Remarks
SPEAKERS
Mr. Taizo Nishikawa, Deputy to the Director-General,
UNIDO (tbc)
Ms. Amina Mohammed, Assistant Secretary-General,
Special Advisor on Post-2015 Development Planning
(video message)
Chair: Mr. Abiodun Willams, Chair, Board of Directors,
Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS);
President, Hague Institute for Global Justice
Opening
Mr. Yury Fedotov, Director-General of the United Nations
Office in Vienna; Executive Director, UNODC
Dr. Lassina Zerbo, Executive Secretary, CTBTO
Ms. Simonetta Di Pippo, Director, UNOOSA
Ms. Margit Bruck-Friedrich, Chief of Protocol & Senior
External Relations Officer, Director General’s Office for
Coordination, IAEA
Mr. Michael Platzer, Chair, Vienna Alliance of NGOs on
Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice;
ACUNS Vienna Liaison Representative
KEYNOTE SPEECH
H.E. Mr. Peter Launsky–Tieffenthal, Director-General for
Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs,
Austrian Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and
International Affairs
Special Guest
H.E. Mrs. Margareta Timofti
First Lady of Moldova
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015 (Continued)
13:00-14:30
United Nations Industrial Development
Organization (UNIDO)
Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial
Development
(Boardroom C, Building C, 4th Floor)
Chair: H.E. Ms. Lourdes O. Yparraguirre,
Ambassador of the Philippines to Austria
Speakers:
Mr. Kitaoka Kazuki, Head of the Strategic Planning Unit,
UNIDO
Ms. Petra Bayr, Member of the Austrian Parliament,
Spokeswoman for Global Development
Mr. Luis Gomez Echeverri, Senior Advisor to the Executive
Office of the UN Secretary General on the Sustainable
Energy for All (SE4ALL) (tbc)
Mr. Uwe Schubert, Professor; Vice President of Society for
Industrial Development
15:00-16:30
United Nations Organization on
Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Peaceful and Inclusive Societies
for Sustainable Development
(Boardroom C, Building C, 4th Floor)
Chair:
Speakers:
Mr. Jean-Luc Lemahieu, Director, Division for Policy
Analysis and Public Affairs, UNODC
Mr. Michael Obrovsky, Head of Research Department,
Austrian Foundation for Development Research
Ms. Maria Pushkina, Laboratory of Political Consulting,
Saint Petersburg State University
Mr. Michael Platzer, Chairperson, Vienna Alliance of NGOs
on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice;
ACUNS Vienna Liaison Representative
17:00-18:00
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban-Tready
Organization (Preparatory Commission)
(Boardroom C, Building C, 4th Floor)
Briefing:
The Contribution of the CTBT to International
Peace, Security and Development
19:00
Mr. Cormac O’Reilly, External Relations Officer, CTBTO
Reception
(Courtesy of the Permanent Mission of Austria
to the International Organizations in Vienna)
Welcoming speech:
Future of Rule- based Societies
H.E. Mr. Hans Winkler, Director,
Diplomatic Academy of Vienna
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Thursday, January 15, 2015
8:30-9:30
Registration (Gate 1)
10:00-11:30
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Science and Technology - The unique
Contributions of Nuclear Techniques
to the Post 2015-Agenda
Chair: H.E. Ms. Bente Angell-Hansen,
Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Norway
to the International Organizations in Vienna
(Boardroom C, Building C, 4th Floor)
Short film: “Food for the Future”
Speakers:
Mr. Ferenc Toth, Planning and Economic Studies Section,
Department of Nuclear Energy, IAEA
Mr. Carl Blackburn, Acting Section Head, Food and
Environmental Protection Section, Department of Nuclear
Sciences and Applications, IAEA
Mr. Neil Victor Jarvis, Section Head, Division of Africa,
Department of Technical Cooperation, IAEA
Ms. Monika Froehler, Communications Officer,
Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL)
12:00-13:30
United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs
(UNOOSA)
Space Policy, Science and Technology:
Accelerating Development in
the post-2015 era
Chair: H.E. Mr. Walther Lichem
(Boardroom C, Building C, 4th Floor)
Speakers:
Mr. Niklas Hedman, Chief Committee, Policy and Legal
Affairs Section, UNOOSA
Mr. Luc St- Pierre, Senior Programme Officer, Space
Applications Section, UNOOSA
Mr. Werner Balogh, Programme Officer, Space Science &
Technology Space Apps. Section, UNOOSA
Ms. Irmgard Marboe, Professor of International Law,
University of Vienna
Mr. Wolfgang Veith, Head of the Product Assurance and
Safety Department, European Space Agency (ESA) (tbc)
13:30-14:30
Lunch Break
14:30-15:50
UN Commission on International Trade
(UNCITRAL)
The Importance of a Solid Commercial Legal
Framework for Sustainable Development
Chair: H.E. Mr. Cristian Istrate, Ambassador of Romania
to the International Organizations in Vienna
(Boardroom C, Building C, 4th Floor)
Speakers:
Mr. Timothy Lemay, Principal Legal Officer and Head,
Legislative Branch, UNCITRAL
Mr. Jernej Sekolec, Former Secretary UNCITRAL,
Independent Arbitrator
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Thursday, January 15, 2015 (Continued)
16:00-17:30
The United Nations Entity for Gender
Equality and the Empowerment of Women
(UNWOMEN)
Gender Equality and the Post-2015 Agenda
Chair: H.E. Ms. Anu Laamanen,
Ambassador of Finland to Austria
(Boardroom C, Building C, 4th Floor)
Speakers:
H.E. Mrs. Margareta Timofti,
First Lady of Moldova
Ms. Ursula Bauer, Chief Executive Office, Executive
Group for Organisation, Safety and Security,
City of Vienna
Ms. Lilly Sucharipa, President, Austria National
Committee for UN Women
Ms. Dorota Gierycz, Professor, Webster University
Mr. Daniil Chugunov, Psychologist, Associate Professor of
the Institute of Management and Law, St. Petersburg
18:30
Social Event
(Courtesy of the City of Vienna)
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Friday, January 16, 2015
7:30-8:00
Registration (Gate 1)
8:30-10:00
United Nations Industrial Development
Organization (UNIDO), United Nations
Information Service (UNIS), United for
Education and Sustainable Futures (UESF),
Youth Engagement and Volunteerism in
UN Post-2015 Development Agenda
Chair: Mr. Martin Nesirky, Director, UNIS Vienna
(Boardroom C, Building C, 4th Floor)
Speakers:
UNIDO (tbc)
Ms. Hanna Heikkila, Associate Expert, Prevention,
Treatment and Rehabilitation Section, UNODC
Ms. Kehkasan Basu, UNEP Major Group Children and
Youth (tbc)
Mr. Billy Batware, UESF and Regional Coordinator,
Regional Academy on United Nations, RAUN
Ms. Viktoriya Luchka, 2014 Ukrainian Youth Delegate to
the UN GA
10:00-10:15
Coffee Break
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Friday, January 16, 2015 (Continued)
10:15-13:00
RAUN Post-2015 Development Agenda
Working Group I -
Inclusive and Sustainable Business Strategies: The Role
of Self-Regulation - UNIDO I
International Development and Trade
(Boardroom C, Building C, 4th Floor)
Financing Young Entrepreneurs and Young Enterprises:
Review of needs, difficulties, and challenges that young
enterprises face when accessing finance – UNIDO II
New Eye: ‘A look from above’ on the Post-2015
Development Agenda, and the growing relevance of
UNOOSA – UNOOSA
Supporting Post-2015 Development Agenda through
Investor-State Arbitration Rules in the field of Energy
– UNCITRAL
Judges:
Mr. Jacek Cukrowski, Chief, Institute for Capacity
Development, UNIDO
Ms. Aygul Duysenhanova, Programme Officer, UNOOSA
Mr. Werner Balogh, Programme Officer,
Space Applications Section, UNOOSA
Ms. Katharine Sarikakis, Professor, Institute for
Publication and Communication, University of Vienna
Ms. Margarete Maria Grandner, Professor and Program
Director, Department of International Development,
University of Vienna
Mr. Grzegorz Donocik, Former Chief, Europe and NIS
Programme, UNIDO
13:00-14:00
Lunch Break
14:00-15:45
RAUN Post-2015 Development Agenda
Working Group II -
Modern Forms of Slavery and Human Trafficking “Female
offenders in the trafficking of persons for the purpose of
sexual exploitation – Victims or perpetrators?” – UNODC I
Human Rights
(Boardroom C, Building C, 4th Floor)
Irregular Migration in the Mediterranean: – problems,
questions and possible solutions in light of the Post-2015
Development Agenda – IOM
The Humanitarian Dimension of Nuclear Testing: – How
the nuclear test-ban treaty adds to the realization of the
UN Post-2015 Development Agenda, and how
international humanitarian law can be useful for enforcing
non-proliferation – CTBTO
Post-2015 Development Agenda within the United
Nations Policy Framework: Towards a future without
violence against women – UNWOMEN
Judges:
Ms. Irmgard Marboe, Professor, University of Vienna
Mr. Cormac O’Reilly, External Relations Officer, CTBTO
Ms. Dorota Gierycz, Professor, Webster University
Mr. Fabrizio Sarrica, Research Officer, Global Report on
Trafficking in Persons Unit, UNODC
Mr. Gunther Hauser, National Defence Academy, Vienna
Mr. Diman Dimov, Project Coordinator, DTA/OSB/ISS,
UNODCAAI
15:45-16:00
Coffee Break
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Friday, January 16, 2015 (Continued)
16:00-17:30
RAUN Post-2015 Development Agenda
Working Group III -
Benefits of Nuclear Energy to Overcome Climate Change
the example of China – IAEA
Energy, Environment and Safety
(Boardroom C, Building C, 4th Floor)
Evaluation of Battery Storage Technologies: Sustainable,
rural electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa – SE4ALL
Sustainable Cities and Personal Security:
“Goals, approaches, outcomes” – Why is it worth keeping
sustainable cities in the Post-2015 Development Agenda?
- UNODC II
Judges:
Mr. Manfred Groening, Head, Terrestrial Environment
Laboratory/ Seibersdorf, IAEA
Ms. Sigrid Stagl, Professor, WU – Vienna University of
Economics and Business
Mr. Matthias Jurek, UNEP Vienna – ISCC
Mr. Antony Kamara, Advocacy & Communications
Coordinator, SE4ALL
Mr. Slawomir Redo, Senior Programme Adviser
(ACUNS Vienna); Visiting Scholar,
John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY, NY, USA)
17:30-18:00
DATE/TIME
RAUN Award Ceremony
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Tuesday, January 13, 2015 (Additional Events)
9:30–12:30
IAAI — ACUNS Workshop:
“Innovative Resource Mobilization for Post -2015 Multi-Stakeholder Action and Youth Engagement”
(Conference Room C5)
12:30–14:00
Lunch break
14:00–16:00
ACUNS Academic Forum
“Target & Indicators for peaceful, inclusive, justice societies for sustainable development” (Goal 16)
(Conference Room C5)
16:00–18:00
Young Adults Drug Forum
“Drug Knowledge, Use, and Policy Changes’
(Conference Room C5)
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