1 World Bank Headquarters 1818 H St. NW, Washington, DC DAY 1
DRAFT Last update: Friday, January 30, 2015 World Bank Headquarters 1818 H St. NW, Washington, DC DAY 1 – Wednesday, February 11, 2015 7:30 - 8:45 am - REGISTRATION and BREAKFAST (Main Lobby) Redefining Fragility to End Poverty Art Exhibition (Ongoing) The World Bank Art Program in partnership with the Fragility, Conflict and Violence Cross-cutting Solution Area (CCSA) of the World Bank Group is hosting an exhibition on the many faces and facets of conflict and violence. This exhibit is part of the Fragility, Conflict and Violence Forum 2015. For nearly two decades, the Art Program has supported the World Bank’s mission to fight extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity worldwide by providing a voice to its member countries through their most sensitive social barometers: their artists. 9:00 - 10:00 am - OPENING SESSION: THE POLITICS OF PEACE BUILDING: LESSONS FROM PROMOTING SHARED SOCIETIES (Joint event with Club de Madrid) Featuring: - President Tarja Halonen, President of Finland (2000-2012) - Abdurrahim El-Keib, Prime Minister of Libya (2011-2012) - Oscar Fernandez-Taranco, United Nations, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support - Makhtar Diop, Vice President, Africa, World Bank Group Moderator: - Vasu Gounden, Founder and Executive Director, African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD) Opening Remarks: - Betty Bigombe, Senior Director, Fragility, Conflict and Violence, World Bank Group 10:00 - 11:30 am - High risk, high reward: Practical learning and innovation from trust funds in FCV In some of the harshest FCV environments, donors and governments look to the World Bank to administer programs through multi-donor trust funds (MDTFs). With MDTF financing almost on par with IDA, trust funds represent a major part of the way the World Bank does business in FCV. They also represent a source of innovation and lessons for increasing effectiveness in FCV. Led by the World Bank’s Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF), which to date has channeled over $7 billion, this session highlights the latest innovations and lessons applicable to other FCV areas and beyond. It brings together operations from some of the most difficult environments, including Afghanistan, Somalia and northwest Pakistan. Speakers: 1 DRAFT Last update: Friday, January 30, 2015 - Ditte Fallesen, Senior Operations Officer, Afghanistan Country Management Unit, World Bank - Nicholas Marwell, Operations Officer, Somalia Multi-Partner Fund, World Bank - Mehreen Saeed, Communications Officer, Pakistan Multi-Donor Trust Fund, World Bank Moderator: - Josef Leitmann, Lead Disaster Risk Management Specialist, Urban, Rural and Social Development Department – Global Practice, World Bank 11:30 am - 1:00 pm - Third Party Monitoring: Strengthening the World Bank’s oversight and accountability in a challenging security context Third party monitoring (TPM) plays a critical role in managing the World Bank’s US$1.8 billion portfolio (IDA and ARTF) in Afghanistan. In a context characterized by challenging security, remote areas, low capacity and weak governance structures, TPM allows the World Bank to access data from all over the country, benefitting monitoring of both quality of infrastructure, output/outcome results and project effectiveness. Speakers: - Naila Ahmed, Rural Development Specialist, Urban, Rural, and Social Development Department-Global Practice, World Bank - Samantha De Silva, Senior Social Protection Specialist, Education Department-Global Practice, World Bank - Ajmal Askerzoy, Operations Officer, Transport and ICT Department-Global Practice, World Bank - Mohammad Yasin Noori, Social Development Specialist, Urban, Rural, and Social Development Department – Global Practice, World Bank - Ditte Fallesen, Senior Operations Officer, Afghanistan Country Management Unit, World Bank Moderator: - Keith W. McLean, Lead Social Development Specialist, Governance Department-Global Practice, World Bank 10:00 am - 12:00 pm (noon) - Decentralized governance as a catalyst for peace Decentralization’s capacity to mitigate and solve conflict has been subject to heavy debates in recent years. In some cases decentralization seems to fuel existing conflicts or trigger new ones, whereas in other cases it has contributed to successfully ending conflict. This panel session will bring together thought leaders for a debate on the current trends and merits of decentralized governance as a positive factor in peace processes and efforts to bring about lasting solutions to conflict. Speakers: - Luka Biong Deng, Director, Centre for Peace and Development Studies, University of Juba, and Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University - Balakrishna Menon Parameswaran, Program Leader Djibouti, Egypt, and Yemen Country Units, World Bank Moderator: - Guenter Heidenhof, Practice Manager, Governance Global Practice, World Bank Group 10:00 - 11:30 am - Developing a conflict-sensitive strategy and portfolio: Lessons from the Kyrgyz Republic The approaches integrated into the Kyrgyz Republic strategies and operations since its 2010 conflict provide an excellent case from which to draw lessons on a portfolio and CMU-wide approach to conflict sensitivity. The case also provides a robust example of collaboration between conflict specialists in social development, country management, and different task teams in integrating conflict sensitivity into the overall work program of the World Bank in a country context. This practitioner’s clinic will present lessons learned from the Kyrgyz case, undertake a simulation exercise to show how a Conflict Filter approach can be applied to an operation, and provide an opportunity for facilitated small-group discussions on how the Kyrgyz experience can be extended 2 DRAFT Last update: Friday, January 30, 2015 to other country cases with comparable needs. Speakers: - Alexander Kremer, Country Manager for Moldova and former Country Manager for the Kyrgyz Republic, Chisinau (Moldova), World Bank Facilitators: - Aly Zulficar Rahim, Senior Social Development Specialist and original Task Team Leader (TTL) for the Kyrgyz Republic Conflict Filter, Urban, Rural and Social Development Department – Global Practice, World Bank - Asli Gurkan, Social Development Specialist and current TTL for the Kyrgyz Republic Conflict Filter, Urban, Rural and Social Development Department – Global Practice, World Bank - Monica Stephen, head of International Institutions, International Alert Discussant: - Nikolas Myint, Senior Social Development Specialist (Myanmar), Urban, Rural and Social Development Department – Global Practice, Yangon (Myanmar), World Bank 10:00 - 11:30 am - Using results measurements to enhance the effectiveness and learning of private sector interventions in FCV In fragile situations, the threat of resurging conflict, high uncertainty about conditions of doing business, and a fragile institutional environment make private investment and private sector development (PSD) project challenging. It is even more challenging in conducting monitoring and evaluation activities in FCV. The objective of this session will share several IFC initiatives and experience in applying various result measurements approaches that help the institution and projects improve the design, effectiveness and learning of PSD interventions in FCV. It also aims to serve a platform for discussion and debate on the potential contribution of the PSD interventions to the peace and stability. Speakers: - Luba Shara, Senior Results Measurement Specialist, Global Economy & Strategy, Development Impact Department-Advisory Services, Johannesburg (South Africa), International Finance Corporation - Chaoying Liu, Results Measurement Specialist, Global Economy & Strategy, Development Impact Department-Advisory Services, International Finance Corporation Moderator: - Toshiya Masuoka, Director, Global Economy & Strategy, Development Impact Department-Advisory Services, International Finance Corporation 10:00 - 11:30 am - New approaches to justice in FCV New approaches to promoting institutions that deliver justice in FCV have important implications for World Bank operations. These approaches grapple with the political and social context that shapes the delivery of justice. It calls for an understanding of justice that goes beyond justice sector institutions, to a broader set of sectors and public authorities that more directly shape citizen experiences of grievance and justice. Thus, interventions on land, extractives, service delivery, public spending, infrastructure etc., can be crucial vehicles to promoting institutions that produce just outcomes. Implications for justice sector work are explored through case examples of Somalia, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Nigeria, and Liberia. Speakers: - Deborah Hannah Isser, Senior Governance Specialist, Governance Department-Global Practice, World Bank - Gerald Gahima, Judge, War Crimes Chamber, Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina - Nigel Roberts, International Development Expert 3 DRAFT Last update: Friday, January 30, 2015 - Katy Thompson, Policy Advisor, Rule of Law, Justice, and Security, United Nations Development Programme Moderator: - Rachel Kleinfeld, Senior Associate, Democracy of Rule of Law Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 10:00 - 11:30 am - More than the sum of the parts: The security-development nexus As leaders, practitioners and analysts take stock of past successes and failures in post-conflict re-engagement, mutual reinforcement across the four main communities of practice - diplomacy, security, relief and development - is consistently identified as critical to success in peace consolidation and recovery. Experience shows that in the absence of deterrence against hostile elements, a credible peace agreement can rarely be forged. A viable peace agreement rarely holds, absent a credible humanitarian relief effort restoring basic human dignity. Finally, gains from an effective security, diplomatic and humanitarian effort can be reversed, plunging society back into conflict, if true development does not follow, i.e., reconstruction (physical and institutional) towards shared growth, better economic prospects. Against this background, the panel session will focus specifically on the dynamics that link security and development in conflict and post-conflict settings, drawing on recent experience. The ultimate objective of the session is to engage Bank staff operating in FCS on the topic of the nexus between security and development, drawing on recent examples and reinforcing the need to reflect that nexus in the conception, design and planning of the Bank’s future post-conflict reengagement strategies at the institutional and country levels. Moderator: - Luigi Giovine, Lead Operations Officer, Fragility, Conflict and Violence-Cross Cutting Solution Area, World Bank Speakers: - Jordan Ryan, former Assistant Secretary General, Deputy Special Representative of the SecretaryGeneral, Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Mission in Liberia - Burcu San, Head, Defense Policy and Partnership Section, North Atlantic Treaty Organization - Michael Miller, European External Action Service, Deputy Division Head, Conflict Prevention, Peace Building and Mediation Instruments, European Union - Brigadier Flemming Kent Vesterby Agerskov, Denmark’s Army, Director Combined Joint Interagency Task Force-Shafafiyat, North Atlantic Treaty Organization 11:00 am - 12:00 pm – The Sahara: Key to the stability and development of Northern Africa and the Sahel A cross-regional and cross-sectorial exchange that focuses on the linkages between security, governance and development in the Sahara, articulating the dynamics that are leading to increased instability (armed violence and trafficking), describing the opportunities that can be capitalized upon to develop operational initiatives (trade, extractives and pastoralism), and identifying areas where further research is needed. Speakers: - Mark Shaw, Director of Communities, Crime and Conflict, Hong Kong STATT Consulting - Yvan Guichaoua, Lecturer in Politics and International Development, School of International Development, University of East Anglia - Jeremy Swift, Pastoral Development Specialist and former Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex - Catalina Quintero, Conflict and Fragility Specialist, Fragility, Conflict, and Violence, World Bank - Taies Nezam, Consultant, Fragility, Conflict and Violence, World Bank Moderator: 4 DRAFT Last update: Friday, January 30, 2015 - Alexandre Marc, Chief Technical Specialist, Fragility, Conflict, and Violence, World Bank 12:00 (noon) - 1:00 pm - LUNCH Redefining Fragility to End Poverty 12:10 - 12:45 pm - Art Exhibition Walking Tour, Meeting Point: MC Information Desk Join World Bank curator Marina Galvani in a walking tour and conversation which explores a bold, poignant and poetic selection of artwork by artists of fragile states addressing the rampant violence, devastating conflict and ravaging instability of their societies. 1:00 - 4:00 pm - National dialogues, political settlements and post-conflict transitions: International lessons and role of the World Bank The World Bank Group is increasingly requested to provide support and complement the role and expertise provided by other development actors in the context of political transitions in the aftermath of conflict. While this sphere of work is outside the usual areas of key engagement, the World Bank has a long history of providing ‘under the radar’ technical assistance and advice. No coherent strategy in conceptualizing and engaging in political transition has emerged and ‘lessons learned’ from previous Bank engagement have not been documented. Based on increasing demand by clients and country teams this mini-conference will bring together experts from the World Bank, UN, the Berghof Foundation, USIP and other external partners to create a platform to exchange knowledge and experience, develop an overarching narrative and a broader stream of work. The session aims to ‘kick-start’ a conversation on complementarity among those UN actors with the principal mandate to engage on overtly political processes to help bring to bring relevant Bank and UN staff onto the same page. Speakers: - Levent Bilman, Director, Policy Mediation Division, Department of Political Affairs, United Nations - Susan Stigant, Director of Africa Programs, United States Institute of Peace - Dr. Peter Bartu, Lecturer on Political Transitions in the Middle East, University of California (Berkeley) - Dr Véronique Dudouet, Programme Director, Berghof Institute - Guenter Heidenhof, Practice Manager, Governance Department-Global Practice, World Bank - Mario Marcel Cullell, Senior Director, Governance Department-Global Practice, World Bank - Nikolas Myint, Senior Social Development Specialist, and Team Leader of SPF/KTF Grants to “Support Peace Process/Confidence Building,” Urban, Rural and Social Development Department-Global Practice, Yangon (Myanmar), World Bank - Matt Stephens, Senior Social Development Specialist, and Team Leader of SPF/KTF Grants to “Support Peace Process/Confidence Building,” Urban, Rural and Social Development Department-Global Practice, Manila (Philippines), World Bank Moderator: - Nigel Roberts, former Co-Director of the WDR 2011 on Conflict, Violence, and Development, and former World Bank Country Director 1:30 – 3:30 pm - Going global: Collaborative solutions to reduce interpersonal violence The Violence Prevention Global Beam (VPGB), coordinated by the Global Practice for Social, Urban and Rural Development (GPSURR) will host a knowledge fair with activities across the World Bank that incorporate violence prevention. The structure of this session is designed to promote an environment for networking across the World Bank and to facilitate conversations on opportunities for collaboration. The focus is on interpersonal violence including its relationship to self-inflicted and collected violence. The VPGB will showcase their platform that promotes and facilitates World Bank-wide collaborations and synergies, and works to expand the investment portfolio on violence prevention. The Knowledge Fair will be open all three days of the FCV Forum. Presenters from the Bank’s Global Practices, Cross-Cutting Solutions Areas and RESOL-V will make informal 5 DRAFT Last update: Friday, January 30, 2015 presentations on: (a) how crime and violence hinders the achievement of important sector outcomes, (b) one concrete solution that the sector is testing, and (c) one other GP with which it needs to collaborate to advance its agenda. * The Beam will support teams in the preparations of their posters. Identifying opportunities for collaborative solutions, participants will move around the room to view posters and label those GP posters that they envision working with. Speakers: - Rodrigo Guerrero Velasco, Mayor of Cali, Colombia - Maninder S. Gill, Director, Urban, Rural and Social Development Department-Global Practice, World Bank - Hassane Cisse, Director, Governance Department-Global Practice, World Bank - Alexandre Marc, Chief Technical Specialist, Fragility, Conflict and Violence-Cross Cutting Solution Area, World Bank Moderator: - Rodrigo Serrano-Berthet, Lead Social Development Specialist, Urban, Rural and Social Development Department-Global Practice, World Bank 1:00 - 3:00 pm - Data revolutions for better governance of extractive industries in FCV One of the main challenges to good governance of natural resources is a fundamental lack of access to information as well as limited civil society capacity to utilize data to better monitor extractive industry operations. To address these challenges, governments are starting to take pioneering steps and a number of important “data revolutions” are underway. These initiatives seek to improve the generation of accurate and publicly accessible information on extractive industries, as well as provide an evidence-base for communitylevel monitoring of extractive industry operations. The panel will discuss the potential, as well as limitations, of harnessing data for better extractives outcomes, drawing on early learnings from ongoing data-driven efforts, as well as experiences of community monitoring in DRC, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Speakers: - Dag Seierstad, Senior Expert on Extractive Industries, United Nations Environment Programme PostConflict and Disaster Management Branch, co-Coordinator of MAP-EI partnership - Eddie Rich, Deputy Head and Regional Director for Africa and the Middle East, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) - Jim Cust, Head of Data and Analysis, Natural Resources Governance Institute/CODEX Initiative - Joy Saunders, Chief Executive Officer, Integrity Action - Michael Jarvis, Program Leader, Governance of Extractive Industries, World Bank Moderator: - Robert Hunja, Practice Manager, Governance Global Practice, World Bank Group 1:00 - 4:00 pm - Alternatives to camps: Bringing a development response to forced displacement This session aims to raise awareness of the need for a development response to the challenges of forced displacement and of the role the World Bank is playing in providing support to the displaced. The session will also: (i) raise awareness of UNHCR’s policy on ‘Alternatives to Camps’ with discussion of why a camp environment can be detrimental for refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) and why stakeholders are increasingly searching for alternatives, (ii) give the economic case for why alternatives to camps may have better rates of return, (iii) give practical examples of World Bank projects in support of refugees and IDPs that provide alternative models of support other than camps. Speakers: 6 DRAFT Last update: Friday, January 30, 2015 - Steven Corliss, Director of the Division of Program Support & Management, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - Apollo Kazungu, Commissioner, Department of Refugees, Government of Uganda - Sabir Ahmadov, Deputy Director, Azerbaijan Social Fund for the Development of Internally Displaced Persons/ Azerbaijan IDP Living Standards and Livelihoods Project - Namig Ibrahimov, Manager for Livelihoods, Azerbaijan Social Fund for the Development of Internally Displaced Persons/ Azerbaijan IDP Living Standards and Livelihoods Project - Niels V. Harild, Lead Social Development Specialist, Global Program on Forced Displacement, Fragility, Conflict and Violence-Cross Cutting Solution Area, World Bank - Aly Zulficar Rahim, Senior Social Development Specialist and Task Team Leader, Azerbaijan IDP Living Standards and Livelihoods Project, Urban, Rural and Social Development Department-Global Practice, World Bank - Ximena Vanessa Del Carpio, Senior Economist, Social Protection and Labor Department, World Bank - Zeynep Durnev Darendeliler, Social Development Specialist, Urban, Rural and Social Development Department-Global Practice, World Bank Moderator: - Colin Bruce, Director, Africa Regional Integration, World Bank Group 1:00 - 2:30 pm - Evidence 4 Peace: Leveraging impact evaluation tools for better results in FCV contexts Fragile and conflict affected situations face daunting developmental challenges, for which solutions remain elusive. While there is consensus that policy decisions informed by evidence can help to achieve better results on the ground, the evidence base for development interventions designed to address FCV has been quite thin. To begin to address this gap, the World Bank’s FCV Group and the Development Impact Evaluation initiative (DIME), together with external partners International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) and Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) recently launched the Evidence 4 Peace (E4P) program with the overall goal of assessing evidence gaps in FCV response, generating improved knowledge about development effectiveness and understanding of how to best support FCV clients in delivering the results so critically needed for citizens to gain confidence in the path out of conflict. Speakers: - Macartan Humphreys, Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University - Chris Blattman, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Columbia University - Marie Gaarder, Manager, Evaluation, Public Sector, World Bank - David Robalino, Manager, Jobs-Cross Cutting Solution Area, World Bank - Eric Mvukiyehe, Economist, Development Economics-Development Impact Evaluation Unit, World Bank - Marcus E. Holmlund, Economist, Development Economics-Development Impact Evaluation Unit, World Bank - Annette N. Brown, Deputy Director, Advancement and Impact Evaluation Services, International Initiative for Impact Evaluation Moderator: - Arianna Legovini, Adviser, Development Economics-Development Impact Evaluation, World Bank 1:00 - 2:30 pm - Responding to the challenge of fragility and security in West Africa Since independence, the West Africa sub region has been the arena for various large-scale conflicts and civil wars, as well as low-intensity conflicts. The turn of the millennium witnessed the recession of large-scale and conventional conflict, but ushered in emerging threats. The specter of religious extremism, maritime piracy, and narcotics trafficking threatens to undermine recent progress. This session will examine the challenges of fragility and security in West Africa, along with the factors of resilience. It will investigate key drivers of conflict and violence while exploring how the sub region has become a pioneer on the continent in addressing regional 7 DRAFT Last update: Friday, January 30, 2015 challenges. It will also identify key lessons in the dynamics of resilience against political violence and civil war, drawn from countries such as Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Cote d’Ivoire. Speakers: - Carl LeVan, Assistant Professor, School of International Service, American University - Professor Jimmy D. Kandeh, Department of Political Science, University of Richmond - Alexandre Marc, Chief Technical Specialist, Fragility, Conflict, and Violence, World Bank Moderator: Francisco Ferreira, Chief Economist, Africa Region, World Bank 2:30 - 4:00 pm - How can we do more good? Rethinking the logic of humanitarian and development inventions in FCV: Lessons from the DRC (Joint event with the Great Lakes Policy Forum) Twenty years ago, the now-Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) received massive influxes of refugees from neighboring Rwanda, triggering a state collapse that claimed millions of lives. The international community has invested billions of dollars addressing recurrent humanitarian needs in the east of the country, and yet, fragility and crisis persist. Join a high-level discussion on new field research findings on the gaps and opportunities in the humanitarian response, and a discussion on what lessons donors, governments, and NGOs can draw in order to “do more good” and develop effective strategies to end the cycle of fragility. Operating since 1995, the Great Lakes Policy Forum aims to keep the Great Lakes on the agenda of policy makers and provides a platform where Government, NGOs, academics, and the Diaspora come together to search cooperatively for solutions to the region’s conflicts. The Forum’s principals are: Amnesty International USA, Africa Studies Program (Council on Foreign Relations), Nitze School of Advanced International Studies-Johns Hopkins University, Refugees International, Search for Common Ground, United States Institute of Peace, Africa Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention. Speakers: - Ambassador (ret.) George Moose, Vice Chairman of the United States Institute of Peace, and former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (1993-1997), Department of State, United States - Shamil Idriss, President and Chief Executive Officer, Search for Common Ground - Andrea Koppel, Vice President of Global Engagement and Policy, Mercy Corps - Jonathan Papoulidis, Executive Advisor on Fragile States, World Vision and Co-Chair of the Conflict and Fragility Working Group (co-convened by InterAction and the Alliance for Peacebuilding) Moderator: 2:30 - 4:00 pm - Public-private partnerships in FCV: Experience from World Bank Group projects Public-private partnerships (PPPs) in FCV countries can help delivery basic infrastructure and services and lay the foundations for economic development. The World Bank Group helps broker such partnerships. As part of these efforts, IFC’s Public-Private Partnerships Transaction Advisory Department has advised governments worldwide on designing and implementing PPP projects in a variety of sectors and has worked on PPPs in FCV countries, including Afghanistan, Haiti, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Timor-Leste. This event will provide a venue to showcase the successes and challenges of some of these projects, share clients’ experiences; and highlight what conditions are required for PPPs to succeed in fragile environments. Speakers: - Adriana de Aguinaga de Vellutini, Manager, Public Private Partnerships-Transaction Advisory Services, International Finance Corporation - Maria Isabel Marques De Sa, Chief Investment Officer, Public Private Partnerships-Transaction Advisory 8 DRAFT Last update: Friday, January 30, 2015 Services, International Finance Corporation Moderator: - Laurence Carter, Senior Director, Public Private Partnerships-Transaction Advisory Services, International Finance Corporation 2:30 - 4:00 pm - The role of payment systems in FCV countries in both normal and emergency situations Payment and settlement systems are central to the smooth functioning of the financial system and the overall economy. Efficient payment systems support financial stability, promote economic and financial development, and are a critical enabler of financial access. In the context of fragile and conflict affected situations, payment system development becomes all the more critical to rebuilding the financial system. However, fragile countries often lack both centralized payments infrastructure and central bank empowerment and capacity. This panel will delve into examples of successful payment system intervention in fragile and conflict-affected situations and distill best practices. Speakers: - Dr. Jihad AlWazir, Governor, Palestine Monetary Authority - Fabiola Herrera, Director, Payment Systems Department, Central Bank of the Dominican Republic - Massimo Cirasino, Practice Manager Financial Infrastructure and Access & Head, Payment Systems Development Group, Finance and Markets-Global Practice, World Bank Moderator: - Gloria M. Grandolini, Senior Director, Finance and Markets-Global Practice, World Bank 4:00 - 6:00 pm VIRUNGA (Movie screening + discussion) Virunga is an Oscar-nominated 2014 documentary film directed by Orlando von Einsiedel. "Virunga" focuses on the conservation work of rangers within Virunga National Park, and the activity of a British company, Soco International, which began exploring for oil within the UNESCO World Heritage site in April 2014. The documentary tells the story of four characters fighting to protect Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, home to the world's last mountain gorillas, against war, poaching, and the threat of oil exploration. Introduction: - Betty Bigombe, Senior Director for Fragility, Conflict, and Violence, World Bank Moderator (Q&A Session): - Paula Caballero, Senior Director, Environment and Natural Resources Department-Global Practice, World Bank 6:00 - 6:45 pm RECEPTION (Atrium) DAY 2 – Thursday, February 12, 2015 8:00 - 8:45 am - REGISTRATION and BREAKFAST (Main Lobby) 9:00 - 10:30 am - “Was Ebola a disease waiting to happen?”: Strengthening health systems in FCV areas to avert catastrophic epidemics Building robust health systems in any context is a challenge. In fragile environments, however, this challenge is especially difficult: limited resources, weak governance, poor to non-existent infrastructure, insecurity and instability, all converge to create tremendous barriers that can hamper the delivery of basic health services. These difficulties have become very apparent in the quest to manage and stop the spread of Ebola. This panel 9 DRAFT Last update: Friday, January 30, 2015 discussion will delve into the practical issues that have hindered effective health system strengthening in postconflict states. It will explore how these challenges can be resolved as well as the investments that will be needed to build resilient health systems that are capable of sustaining core services and can withstand future crises. Opening remarks: - Keith E. Hansen, Vice President, Global Practice Cross-Cutting Solutions, World Bank Speakers: - Hon. Tolbert G. Nyenswah, Assistant Minister of Health, Bureau of Preventive Services, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of Liberia - Dr. David Nabarro, United Nations Secretary-General´s Special Envoy on Ebola (via videoconference) - Dr. Edward Kelley, Director, Service Delivery and Safety Department, World Health Organization Moderator: - Phillip Jeremy Hay, Manager, Africa-External Communications, World Bank Group 9:00 - 11:00 am - Rebuilding public services in post-conflict countries: How to walk the line between building and bypassing the State? In post-conflict settings, short-term demands typically trump the long-term objective of building a capable public service. To ensure peace and stabilize fragile political coalitions, governments are often obligated to hand out public jobs and better pay to constituents, regardless of merit. Donor-financed projects relying on highly paid staff, rather than on public servants, often become the primary vehicle to address citizens’ immediate service delivery needs. In view of these trade-offs, this panel will discuss the question how to find pragmatic compromises between building and bypassing the state. The discussion will be informed by the policy lessons from a new comparative study on how to (re)build public services in post-conflict countries. Speakers: - Vivek Srivastava, Lead Public Sector Development Specialist, Governance Department-Global Practice, World Bank - Jurgen Rene Blum, Public Sector Management Specialist, Governance Department-Global Practice, World Bank - Verena Maria Fritz, Senior Public Sector Specialist, Governance Department-Global Practice, World Bank - Satyendra Prasad, Senior Governance Specialist, Governance Department-Global Practice, World Bank - Bella Bird, Country Director, South Sudan and Somalia, World Bank - Stephen N. Ndegwa, Country Manager, Kabul (Afghanistan), World Bank - William Byrd, Senior Expert-Afghanistan, United States Institute of Peace Moderator: - Joel Hellman, Chief Institutional Economist, Governance Department, World Bank 9:00 am - 12:30 pm - Building resilience in FCV: Safety nets and jobs Social protection and labor policies as well as interventions are among the main instruments for building resilience and for protecting the poor in FCV. They help prevent common damaging coping strategies, which affected populations resort to in time of stress. Well targeted safety nets including cash transfers, school feeding and cash-for-work programs are most valuable where the population has been hit hard by domestic and International – including violent conflicts, natural disasters, or extended periods of political and social instability. During difficult times, SPL interventions promote income earning opportunities, including jobs. The objectives of the workshop are a) to provide an overview on the main issues and strategies of Social Protection and Labor priorities in FCV states; b) to design selected Safety-nets-country-responses in specific FCV contexts, c) present and discuss country-level analytical work that tests new approaches for data collection on jobs, including recent work in Cote d’Ivoire and Sierra Leone funded by the Korea Trust Fund for Economic and 10 DRAFT Last update: Friday, January 30, 2015 Peace-Building Transitions, and d) discuss opportunities and constraints to cash transfers in FCV. Speakers: - Arup Banerji, Senior Director, Social Protection and Labor, World Bank - Nigel Twose, Senior Director, Jobs, CCSA, World Bank - Rachel Slater, SLRC Project Research Director, ODI (by videoconference) - Mirey Ovadiya, SPL Senior Specialist, World Bank - Yasser El-Gammal, SPL Practice Manager, World Bank - Ugo Gentilini, SPL Senior Economist, World Bank - Nicola Pontara, Head of South Sudan Country Office and Program Leader, World Bank (by videoconference) - Patrick Premand, SPL Senior Economist, World Bank - Nina Rosas Raffo, SPL Specialist, World Bank - Kristen Himelein, Senior Economist, Poverty, World Bank - Utz Pape, Economist, Poverty, World Bank Moderators: - Giuseppe Zampaglione, SPL Lead Social Protection Specialist, World Bank - Dena Ringold, SPL Lead Economist, World Bank Discussants: - Ethan B. Kapstein, Senior Advisor, US Institute of Peace Keynote Speaker: - Christopher Blattman, Associate Professor, Columbia University 9:00-10:30 am - Working meeting of the Community of Practice for Land and Fragile, Conflict and Violence Situations This session is open to all those engaged with analytic work and projects supporting land rights and administration in FCV. You are invited to come and meet each other, share experiences, compare projects and discuss how the Community of Practice can best serve your needs and contribute to improved practice in this sector. Panelists: - Deborah Isser, Senior Counsel, World Bank - Matt Stephens, Senior Social Development Specialist, World Bank - Hugo de Vries, Consultant, World Bank Moderators: - Sandra Kdolsky, Social Development Specialist, World Bank - Mika-Petteri Törhönen, Senior Land Policy Specialist, World Bank 9:00 - 10:30 am - Challenges of international standards for corporate responsibility in FCV (Joint event with OXFAM Novib) Over the last 15 years, a plethora of international standards on corporate responsibility have emerged to address negative effects of businesses. Some of these standards are generic; other standards have a special focus on FCV. However, it is often not clear to companies which guidelines to use and how to apply them, and it is difficult for governments and civil society organizations to hold companies accountable as most of the international guidelines do not have accountability or complaint mechanisms. A panel will discuss the impact of these guidelines and the actions that are needed to make these guidelines really work and reach scale. Speakers: - Fia van der Klugt, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark - Mark van Dorp, Researcher and Author of Report, Center for Research on Multinational Corporations 11 DRAFT Last update: Friday, January 30, 2015 (SOMO) - Farouk Ismail Ukach, South Sudan Law Society - Reg Manhas, Kosmos Energy - Morgan J. Landy, Director, Transactional Risk Solutions, International Finance Corporation Moderator: - Joyce Kortlandt, OXFAM Novib 10:30 am - 12:00 pm (noon) – From Fragile States to States of Fragility – A pre-view of the OECD’s 2015 report While in the MDG era the focus was on progress in developing countries, the post-2015 development agenda will be universal. What does that mean for fragility? The OECD’s report States of Fragility 2015 – Meeting post2015 Ambitions argues in favour of proposed SDG 16 and seeks to present a new understanding of fragility “beyond fragile states”. It assesses fragility as an issue of universal character that can affect all countries, not only developing ones traditionally considered “fragile” or “conflict-affected”. To do so, it takes indicators related to five SDG targets: institutions, violence, economic foundations, and capacity to adapt to shocks and disasters. It applies them to all countries worldwide, and identifies the 50 most vulnerable ones in all five dimensions. The group of countries most challenged on all five fronts differs little from the traditional list of fragile states and economies. But several middle-income countries with disproportionately high levels of crime-related violence, sub-national conflict or poor access to justice move into the spotlight. Making headway on the SDG targets will require building a new portfolio of tools and interventions, and a new understanding of the international community’s role in assisting this process. Speakers: - Jolanda Profos, Peace and Conflict Adviser, OECD - Sarah Hearn, Associate Director and Senior Fellow, CIC/NYU - Robert Parker, Director of Policy and Communications, Saferworld - Gary Milante, Director of Security and Development Programme, SIPRI Moderator: - Ambassador Elizabeth M. Coussens, United States Representative on the UN Economic and Social Council and Alternate Representative to the UN General Assembly (TBC) 11:00 am - 12:30 pm – Using micro-level data on welfare and behavior for policy making in FCV The last few years have seen an explosion of data, including satellite crop cover, weather, night time lighting, indices of political freedom, geocoded conflict data, and detailed individual, household and firm level data. Even in areas affected by violent conflict such data are often available or can be collected. The potential of these data to study and understand human behavior is huge. But how can project managers and policy makers in conflict affected settings use such information? The clinic will give an overview of current research in the micro-level analysis of welfare and behavior in conflict settings and discuss pitfalls, challenges and opportunities of the use of data for economic and policy purposes. Speakers: - Philip Verwimp, Professor, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels - Tilman Brück, Director, International Security and Development Center, Berlin - Patricia Justino, Professor, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex Moderator: 11:30 am - 12:30 pm - Practitioners for youth in peace building A panel discussion to launch the joint UN-Habitat and World Bank Global Assessment of the Role of Youth as Peace Builders will feature testimonials from peace activists and mediators in conflict situations. Several key issues related to the role of youth in peace building will be addressed. These include how can youth contribute 12 DRAFT Last update: Friday, January 30, 2015 to peace building, what actions are being taken in post-conflict contexts so that youth break the cycle of violence, lessons learned from successfully empowering young people as peace builders, the structures that can be put in place for youth to contribute to reconstruction and peace building, and how effective programs can be designed to strengthen the role of youth as peace builders. Speakers: - Oyebanji Oyeyinka, Chief Scientific Officer, UN-Habitat - Joao Felipe Scarpelini, Youth Activist, Brazil - Aline Rahbany, Youth Activist, Lebanon Moderator: - Ferid Belhaj, Country Director, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon, World Bank Welcome Remarks: - Betty Bigombe, Senior Director, Fragility, Conflict, and Violence, World Bank 12:30 - 2:00 pm - PLENARY SESSION: YOUTH VOICES AND RESILIENCE IN FCV: STORIES FROM FERGUSON TO UKRAINE UNPLUGGED (Lunch included) Speakers: - Amira Yahyaoui, 2014 Laureate for the Chirac Prize for Conflict Prevention - Emmanuel Jal, former Child Soldier, Political Activist, and Musician - Rasheen Aldridge, Youth Representative for President Obama’s Ferguson Commission - Mouaz Moustafa, Syrian Activist and Member of the Government Relations Committee for the Coalition for a Democratic Syria (CDS) - Razan Shalab Al-Sham, Field Director, Syrian Emergency Task Force - Kurtmolla Abdulganiyev, Programme Analyst, United Nations Development Programme in Ukraine - Jesica Zermeño Nuñez, Reporter and Producer, Univision Network (Mexico Bureau) Moderator: 2:00 - 5:00 pm - Young minds: Addressing stress and adversity in youth programming in FCV Stress and adversity exert strong influences on behavior. For youth, stress and adversity can complicate transitions to adulthood. What does this mean for work with youth in FCV? This session will explore these dynamics via a discussion of the findings of the World Development Report 2015 on Mind, Society and Behavior for FCV, and a workshop focused on addressing stress and adversity in youth programming in FCV. Speakers will include policymakers and technical experts in youth programming in FCV. Speakers: - Varun Gauri, Director of WDR 2015 - Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, Sokoto Diocese, Nigeria - Jimmie Briggs, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Man Up Campaign - Chris Blattman, Associate Professor, Political Science & International Public Affairs, Columbia University - Daisuke Funai, Technical Advisor, Youth and Livelihoods, International Rescue Committee - Peter Darvas, Senior Education Economist, Adolescent Girls Initiative (AGI) - Christopher MacLay, Mercy Corps Program Manager-PROSPECTS (Promoting Sustainable Partnerships for Economic Transformation), Liberia Moderator: - Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez, Senior Director, Global Practice on Social, Urban, Rural, and Resilience, World Bank 2:00 - 5:00 pm – Addressing Transition, Conflict and Development in the Middle East and North Africa: Challenges and Opportunities 13 DRAFT Last update: Friday, January 30, 2015 This mini conference will examine the Middle East & North Africa’s transitional dynamics in light of the region’s shifting political landscape and drivers of conflict, the challenges they present for long-term stability and development, and implications for institutions such as the World Bank. A first panel will examine current drivers of conflict and fragility, including sectarian divisions and ethnic conflicts, social and economic inequalities and marginalization, and contested transition processes, including their consequences on national development prospects and regional stability. The second panel will consider how the international development community has responded, and discuss priorities for strengthening institutional and social resilience against external shocks in contexts of transition. Speakers: - Paul Salem, Middle East Institute, United States - Peter Bartu, University of California (Berkeley) - Charlotte Slente, Ambassador, Special Envoy for Fragile States, Government of Denmark - Ishac Diwan, Research Affiliate, Middle East Initiative, Harvard University - Ferid Belhaj, Country Director, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon, World Bank - Tim Williams, Senior Governance Advisor, Middle East and North Africa Department, Department for International Development, United Kingdom Moderator: - Maninder Gill, Senior Director, Urban, Rural and Social Development Department-Global Practice, World Bank Group - Franck Bousquet, Senior Regional Advisor, Office of the Regional Vice Presidency-Middle East and North Africa, World Bank 2:00 - 3:30 pm – Financing SME Growth in Fragile and Conflict-affected Countries: A Knowledge-sharing workshop Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are the engine of job growth in FCV areas, but they face even greater barriers to success than their counterparts in non-fragile economies. This session will review models used to provide much-needed financing (often with technical assistance) for SMEs to grow and develop. What are our definitions of success? What models have seen success along these lines? Speakers: - Hugh Scott, Director, The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund - Simon Bell, Global Lead on SME Finance, World Bank - Florence Boupda, Senior Investment Officer, Financial Institutions Group, IFC - Tracy Washington, Program Manager, SME Ventures, IFC Discussant: - Michel Botzung, FCS Manager, Sub-Saharan Africa, IFC Moderator: - John Speakman, Lead Private Sector Development Specialist, World Bank 2:00 - 3:30 pm - Learning in the face of adversity Palestinian refugee students attending United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) schools in the West Bank, Gaza and Jordan are achieving higher-than-average results in international assessments, despite the challenging and adverse circumstances they live under. The UNRWA Education Program for Palestine Refugees represents a resilience approach that includes effective classroom practices of teachers, strong school leadership, assessments and shared accountability for learning, can support adaptability and performance in high-risk contexts. The panel will discuss the findings and implications of the study of UNRWA schools, as well as contrast cases of resilience in education in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. Speakers: 14 DRAFT Last update: Friday, January 30, 2015 - Harry Patrinos, Manager, Education Practice, World Bank - Husein Abdul-Hamid, Senior Education Specialist, Education Practice, World Bank - Joel Reyes, Senior Institutional Development Specialist, Education Sector, World Bank - Emanuela Di Gropello, Education Program Leader, Education Practice, World Bank Moderator: - Claudia Costin, Senior Director, Education Practice, World Bank * The dialogue on cross-group collaboration will include representatives from the FCV CCSA, and the Social, Urban Rural, and Resilience Group. 2:00 - 3:30 pm - Trust, voice, and incentives for service delivery: Windows of opportunity in transition Transitions create spaces for institutional innovation and can accelerate reforms toward improving service delivery. They have the potential to initially increase citizen trust and engagement. But transitions also place additional demands on service providers as citizens expect to see improvements. Transitions should aim at creating institutions and accountability mechanisms at the political, administrative and social levels to motivate providers, public servants, and policymakers to deliver quality services to the poor and other non-privileged populations. Success on this front would foster the state’s legitimacy and citizen trust in public institutions. The session will share recent success stories and discuss emerging innovative approaches and lessons. Speakers: - Neil Simon M. Gray, Country Director for Morocco, World Bank - Shantayanan Devarajan, Chief Economist, Middle East and North Africa Region, World Bank - Roberto Adrian Senderowitsch, Program Manager, GGOGA, World Bank - Michael Woolcock, Lead Social Development Specialist, DECPI, World Bank - Ellen Marie Lust, Professor, Department of Political Science, Yale University, and Consultant, World Bank - Zahid Hasnain, Senior Public Sector Specialist, GGODR, and WDR 2016 Co-Director, World Bank Moderator: - Stella Dawson, Chief Correspondent, Thomson Reuters 3:30 - 5:00 pm - The balancing act between effective service delivery and state building: The case of Afghanistan Access to basic services in Afghanistan has significantly improved in all sectors. The way in which public services are delivered, in terms of administrative arrangements vary, both within and between sectors from ‘off budget’ arrangements implemented directly by NGOs and donors to ‘on budget’ flagship national programs. The different modalities have had their successes and failures and the implications are wide ranging. This presentation will discuss the contrasting modalities chosen in an FCV environment such as Afghanistan and the decade long balancing act between effective service provision, capacity development of sub-national staff or structures, accountability and strengthening sub-national governance. Speakers: - Jain Holsheimer, Altai Consulting Discussants: - Ladisy Chenguia, Agriculture, World Bank - Samantha de Silva, Education, World Bank - Naila Ahmed, Social/Rural, World Bank Moderator: - Richard Hogg, Program Leader, SACKB, World Bank 3:30 - 5:00 pm - Amplifying the voice of civil society in the New Deal As the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding (IDPS) enters a critical phase, the Civil Society Platform for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding (CSPPS) presents its work in support of the implementation of the 15 DRAFT Last update: Friday, January 30, 2015 New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States and shares key strategic perspectives for the year 2015 and beyond. Speakers from civil society, government and multilateral New Deal stakeholders will offer perspectives and upto-date reporting about the status of New Deal implementation and elaborate on the role of civil society in that process. CSPPS as the official forum for coordinated civil society participation in the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding (IDPS) aims to develop and strengthen the voice and capacity of civil society in support of successful New Deal implementation. Speakers: - Lancedell Mathews, Director, New African Research and Development Agency (NARDA), Liberia - Rita Martin Lopidia, Executive Director, EVE Organisation for Women Development, South Sudan - Dr. Tolbert Jallah, Secretary General, Fellowship of Christian Councils and Churches of West Africa (FECCIWA), Togo Moderator: - Melanie Greenberg, CEO, Alliance for Peacebuilding and CSPPS 5:00 - 7:00 pm - The Interrupters: Screening and Q and A with Cure Violence The Interrupters is a 2011 documentary film, produced by Kartemquin Films, that tells the story of three violence interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed. It examines a year in which Chicago drew national headlines for violence and murder that plagued the city. The film features the work of Cure Violence, an international NGO, working on four continents to reduce lethal violence. Cure Violence has been proven effective at reducing shootings and killings by multiple independent evaluations. Speakers: - William D. Euille, Mayor, City of Alexandria - Gary Slutkin, MD Founder/Executive Director, Cure Violence - Ricardo (Cobe) Williams, National Community Coordinator & Violence Interrupter, and National Trainer, Ceasefire [Also featured in the documentary] Moderator: - Ede Jorge Ijjasz-Vasquez, Senior Director, GPSUR, World Bank DAY 3 – Friday, February 13, 2015 8:00 - 8:45 am - REGISTRATION and BREAKFAST (Main Lobby) 9:00 - 10:00 am - PLENARY SESSION: THE DRIVER OF ECONOMIC GROWTH AND JOB CREATION: WHY THE PRIVATE SECTOR IS CENTRAL TO THE FCV AGENDA A thriving private sector is essential to development and stability in fragile and conflict-affected states. The private sector is recognized as a key driver of economic growth and job creation, as a source of critical good and services and as an important contributor to poverty reduction and higher living standards for poor people. This panel discussion will focus on how to maximize the private sector’s potential; it will provide perspectives from academia, politics, business, and the World Bank Group. Speakers: - Daniel Kablan Duncan, Prime Minister, Cote d’Ivoire - Ed Garcia, President and Managing Director, Firestone Liberia - Nigel Twose, Senior Director, Jobs, International Finance Corporation - Paul Collier, Co-Director, Centre for the Study of African Economies, Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, and Professorial Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford 16 DRAFT Last update: Friday, January 30, 2015 University Moderator: - Jean Phillipe Prosper, Vice President, Global Client Services and Fragile & Conflict Situations, International Finance Corporation 10:00 - 11:30 am - Addressing gender-based violence: Scaling up innovations that work Fragility and armed conflict increase risk of gender-based violence (GBV), which significantly affects survivors’ social status, physical and mental health and livelihoods. Emerging evidence from field-based studies demonstrates how to overcome these impacts, including a recent impact evaluation from South Kivu, which is the foundation for significant scaling-up and replication including under the World Bank’s IDA-funded $107 million Great Lakes Emergency GBV and Women’s Health Project. The panel will present the evidence, discuss replication models as well as the use of innovative technology to support prosecuting sexual crimes and highlight the role of the WBG. Speakers: - Donald Steinberg, World Learning, Former Deputy Administrator, USAID - Pia Peeters, co-Task Team Leader for the IDA-funded $107 million Great Lakes Emergency SGBV and Women’s Health Project, World Bank - Paul Boulton, Johns Hopkins University (via videoconference) - Betty Bigombe, Senior Director, FCV Group, World Bank Moderator: - Ede Jorge Ijjasz-Vasquez, Senior Director, GPSUR, World Bank 10:00 - 11:30 am - Developing a practical handbook for environmental regulators in situations of fragility, conflict and violence (FCV) The Environmental Regulatory Practice Handbook (ERPH) seeks to provide principles, approaches, methods, skills and experiences to aid regulators to tackle some of the immense challenges that they may face in FCV. ERPH is an output from a workshop for environmental regulators from over 10 FCV-affected countries (financed by the Korean Trust Fund-KTF, organized and hosted by the World Bank). The objective of this workshop is to present an advanced draft of the Handbook, to generate structured discussion among peers to provide feedback on the content and applicability of the handbook and generate ideas on its wider dissemination. Speakers: - Milena Petrova, GCFDR, World Bank - Ella Humphry, GCFDR, World Bank Moderator: - Wolfhart Pohl, Adviser, GCFDR, World Bank 10:00 - 11:00 am - Private sector development in FCV: The role of public-private and multi-stakeholder dialogue Private sector development (PSD) plays a crucial role in post-conflict economic development and poverty alleviation. FCV environments, however, face major challenges, such as difficult access to finance, power and markets; poor infrastructure; high levels of corruption; and a lack of transparency in the regulatory environment. Most fragile and post-conflict economies — the majority of which are found in Sub-Saharan Africa — are at the bottom of the World Bank’s Doing Business rankings. Improving the business environment by easing the conditions of doing business can bolster formal private-sector activities, state authority and service delivery. In fragile and post-conflict economies, there is often deep mistrust between the government and the private sector, resulting from widespread rent-seeking behaviors, cronyism and lack of legitimacy. To overcome these shortcomings and to strengthen public trust, engaging the private sector in a reform dialogue is essential. 17 DRAFT Last update: Friday, January 30, 2015 Speakers: - Steve Utterwulghe, Senior Private Sector Development Specialist and Global Lead, Public-Private Dialogue, Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice, World Bank - Seth Kaplan, Professorial Lecturer in the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University - Mamadou Blondin Beye, Manager, International Government Affairs, Chevron Moderator: - Ivan Rossignol, Chief Technical Specialist, Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice, World Bank 10:00 am - 12:30 pm - Impact of Agricultural Public Policies on Reduction of Conflicts in Rural Communities (event with Agence Française de Développement) In arid area subject to strong environmental constraints accentuated by Climate and Demography, generate crises if they are not accompanied by investment and public policy. In these areas, we must develop irrigated agriculture (valleys of the Niger, Senegal, Volta), a green leafy rain-fed agriculture (Guinean savannah) and at the same time maintain the seasonal mobility of herds of more or less long distances, according to climate variability (all the Sahel). The nexus "agricultural intensification" / "privatization of the organic matter of cultivated areas" / "densification of space" / "pastoral mobility" is translated by seasonal conflicts between pastoralists and farmers but also more between farmers aspiring to be as breeders and vice versa. Public policies to accompany these changes reducing conflicts must combine three dimensions: (i) A new local decentralization ensuring a recognition of historical land uses and organizing a new assignment through land use plans and local governance bodies, including the condition of the land between the users and uses; (ii) The organization of evolutionary pastoral systems, retaining their essential quality of mobility and the ability to value free seasonal biomass; (iii) A reasoned agricultural intensification locally according to the potential. Examples: Mali, Niger, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Chad and Cameroon to the north, show that the simultaneous combination of these three approaches "Local Governance / pastoralism / agriculture" can reduce the risk of conflict. Speakers: - Francois G. Le Gall, Adviser, Agriculture Department-Global Practice, World Bank - Stéphane Forman, Senior Livestock Specialist, Agriculture Department-Global Practice, World Bank - Ali Bety, Programme Manager for Rural Development in Niger, Agence Française de Développement Niamey - Ced Hesse, Principal Researcher-Drylands, Climate Change Group, and Team Leader, Research for Advocacy, International Institute for Environment and Development - Christian Berger, Senior Agricultural Specialist, Agriculture Department-Global Practice, World Bank - Caroline Plancon, Senior Land Policy Specialist, Urban, Rural and Social Development DepartmentGlobal Practice, World Bank - Seydou Sanou, Observatoire du Foncier - Peter Hochet, Research Director, Laboratoire Citoyennetes - Sébastien Demay, Head of Mission, Ouagadougou (Burkina Fasso), Agence Française de Développement - Dr. Ousmane Sy, former Minister for Decentralization, Mali - Benoit Verdeaux, Strategic Positioning and Communications, Sub-Saharan Department, and Regional Coordinator for Nigeria, Agence Française de Développement - Marc Trouyet, Assistant Director for Democratic Governance, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France Moderators: - Jean-Luc François, Agence Française de Développement 18 DRAFT Last update: Friday, January 30, 2015 - Zacharie Mechali, Agence Française de Développement Introductory Remarks: - Olivier Ray, Head of the Fragile States Unit, Agence Française de Développement Redefining Fragility to End Poverty 12:10 - 12:45 pm - Art Exhibition Walking Tour, Meeting Point: MC Information Desk Join World Bank curator Marina Galvani in a walking tour and conversation which explores a bold, poignant and poetic selection of artwork by artists of fragile states addressing the rampant violence, devastating conflict and ravaging instability of their societies. 12:30 - 2:00 pm - PLENARY SESSION: REDEFINING FRAGILITY: NEW THINKING ON ENDING POVERTY (Lunch Included) Opening Remarks: - Betty Bigombe, Senior Director, Fragility, Conflict and Violence, World Bank Group Speakers: - Dr. Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group - Daniel Kablan Duncan, Prime Minister, Cote d’Ivoire - Dr. Rodrigo Guerrero, Mayor of Cali, Colombia - Nancy Lindborg, President, United States Institute of Peace (TBC) - Ambassador Martin S. Indyk, Vice President and Director of the Foreign Policy Program, Brookings Institution Moderator: - Femi Oke, Journalist and International Broadcaster, Host of Al Jazeera’s ‘The Stream’ 2:00 - 5:00 pm - Violence prevention: Overview of the state of the field Violence is a major global development problem, with low- and middle-income countries, and the urban young bearing the largest burden. Successful violence prevention programs exist; however, the existing evidence base often does not inform practice or policy-making. Furthermore, significant gaps in the evidence base remain; many programs that have been evaluated in higher income countries are problematic to implement in less resourced contexts. An overview of the state of the field will be provided, with a focus on urban youth violence prevention. New bank partnerships to build the global evidence base around the effectiveness of violence prevention development aid will be presented and discussed. Speakers: - Mark Rosenberg, President and CEO of the organization and Director of the Task Force's Center for Global Health Collaboration - Rodrigo Guerrero, Mayor of Cali, Colombia, and member of CISALVA, the Violence Research Center of Universidad del Valle, and the Institute of Medicine - Nancy Guerra, Professor of Psychology and Brain Sciences, Co-chair, Global Learning Initiative to Prevent Violence in Childhood, Director Prevention and Culture Lab-University of Delaware - Roseanna Ander, Founding Executive Director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, the Chicago Education Lab and partner in the joint WB-University of Chicago J-PAL (The Abdul LatifJameel Poverty Action Lab) Crime Initiative Discussants: - Alexandra Toma, Executive Director of the Peace and Security Funders Group - Joan Serra Hoffman, Senior Social Development Specialist, World Bank Moderator: - Maninder S. Gill, Director, Urban, Rural and Social Development Department-Global Practice, World Bank Group 19 DRAFT Last update: Friday, January 30, 2015 2:00 - 3:30 pm - Exploring the link between fragility and criminal activity Transnational organized crime, corruption, illegal trade in natural resources, the laundering of the proceeds of crime and tax evasion – impact governance and development outcomes across the developing world. These threats fuel grievances and violence and undermine the effectiveness of national institutions and social norms, ultimately compromising economic growth. Presenting recent research by the OECD and the World Bank, this session will explore the linkages between criminal activities, their related illicit financial flows, and the implications for conflict and fragility. It will also look at how “follow the money tools” can be used to stem these flows and combat the underlying offences. Speakers: - Tuesday Reitano, Head of the Global Initiative Secretariat, Global Initiatives - Steven Schoofs, International Alert - Zainab Ahmed, CEO of NEITI - Larisa Gray, Senior Financial Sector Specialist, Financial Integrity, World Bank Moderator: 2:00 - 5:00 pm - Design and delivery of private sector development projects in FCV (Closed session by Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice) A workshop to provide knowledge and skills for staff working on design and implementation of private sector development projects in fragile and conflict situations. This workshop draws on the experience and knowledge of World Bank Group’s experts in working on private sector development projects in these challenging environments. The participants, will be guided by the experts through a case study, and will be asked to diagnose a situation and brainstorm about solutions. Speakers: - John Speakman, Lead Private Sector Development Specialist, Trade and Competitiveness, World Bank - Nabila Assaf, Senior Private Sector Development Specialist, Trade and Competitiveness, World Bank 2:00 - 3:30 pm - Assessment and management of environmental damage due to armed conflict and acts of war Environmental damage due to armed conflict and acts of war affects victims more often and in more direct ways than generally acknowledged, and frequently represents one of the most significant and persistent impacts. This is also a field where the World Bank Group, through its expertise in the analysis, assessment, management and mitigation of pollution, degradation of land, and depletion of natural resources can provide significant value to conflict-affected countries and situations. This clinic proposes a methodology for rapid damage assessment and prioritization that relies on a screening analysis of key factors, such as socio-economic needs, obtainable baseline data, and damage data. Speakers: - Benoit Bosquet, Practice Manager, GENDR, World Bank - Ayaz Pervez, Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist, GCCDR, World Bank - Muralee Thummarukudy, Senior Programme Officer, Disaster Risk Reduction, United Nations Environment Program Moderator: - Wolfhart Pohl, Adviser, GCFDR, World Bank 2:00 - 3:30 pm - Addressing fragility in middle income countries The current criteria for fragility, focusing on states (primarily lower income countries) having weak policies and institutions or countries affected by conflict, has strong limitations in accounting for fragility and heightened 20 DRAFT Last update: Friday, January 30, 2015 risk of socio-political instability in middle income countries (MICs). This session proposes an expansion of the concept and operational implications of fragility, to enable inclusion of fragile MICs in a way that is useful to policy makers and practitioners when designing development strategies and allocating funds. The session also discusses how interventions to support fragile MICs may differ from support to fragile LICs. Introductory Remarks: - Ferid Belhaj, Country Director for Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, Middle East and North Africa Region, World Bank Speakers: - Pauline H. Baker, President Emeritus, Fund for Peace (FFP) - Seth Kaplan, Professorial Lecturer in the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University - Kevin Carey, Lead Economist on Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management (Middle East and North Africa Region), World Bank - Elisabeth Huybens, Practice Manager, Social Development, Europe and Central Asia Region, World Bank - Nadia Piffaretti, Senior Economist on Fragility, Conflict, and Violence, World Bank Moderator: - Alexandre Marc, Chief Technical Specialist, Fragility, Conflict, and Violence, World Bank 2:00 - 3:30 pm - The nexus between religion and peace: Harnessing the power of faith to promote peace and stability This interactive panel discussion will explore the nexus between religion and peace, drawing on academic research as well as concrete case studies and practical examples to explore the positive role that religious actors can play in peacebuilding efforts. Speakers: - Michelle Breslauer, US Program Manager for the Americas, Institute for Economics and Peace - Adam Russell Taylor, World Bank - Kristen Looney, Head of Programs and Partnerships, Tony Blair Faith Foundation - Dr. William Vendley, Secretary General, Religions for Peace - Torrey Olsen, World Vision US - Dr. Chris Seiple, President, Institute for Global Engagement - Andrea Bartoli, Community of Sant'Egidio - Dr. Mohamed Elsanousi, Director of External Relations, Secretariat of the Network of Religious and Traditional Peacemakers Moderator: 3:30 - 5:00 pm - Efficient basic services delivery as a conflict-mitigating tool in FCV (RBF-OBA) The session will provide practical examples of how and why innovative financing tools such as Results Based Financing (RBF) and Output Based Aid (OBA) can be used to expand access for the poor to basic services in FCV. Many believe that improved service delivery can play a conflict-mitigating role, by reducing tensions and grievances over services between conflicting groups, yet service delivery in FCV is often ineffective due to the lack of a proper framework and adequate coordination amongst different local, national and international actors. Incentives for adequate service delivery may be distorted through corruption and the private capture of public resources at local and national level, while incentives to reach the poor may be lacking entirely. Speakers: - Jain Holsheimer, Altai Consulting 21 DRAFT Last update: Friday, January 30, 2015 - Naila Ahmed, Rural Development Specialist, Urban, Rural and Social Development Department-Global Practice, World Bank Group - Samantha de Silva, Senior Social Protection Specialist, Education Department-Global Practice, World Bank Group Moderator: - Richard Hogg, Program Leader, SACKB, World Bank 3:30 - 5:00 pm - Lessons from citizen engagement solutions in Fragile States Social and political fragmentation, limited access to information, low level of citizen engagement, in addition to infrastructural gaps, make fragile states vulnerable to breaches in trust that can arise when citizens feel disconnected from decision-making processes. Engaging citizens in policy making is central to reinforce social cohesion, inspire civic ownership, and help shape the authorizing environment needed to advance development policies and programs. While technology-enhanced citizen engagement can bring shortcut solutions to problems in local communities, low level of internet access and use of ICTs create limitations to citizen voice and participation in fragile contexts. Proper mechanisms for online and offline citizen engagement, and the right balance between these forms of engagement are crucial to ensure development impact in these contexts. Speakers: - Stephen Davenport, Senior Governance Specialist, Digital Engagement, Governance Global Practice, World Bank - Asta Olesen, Senior Social Development in Afghanistan Specialist, Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Global Practice - Rens Rutten, Senior Monitoring and Evaluation officer, Corporate Strategy Unit – Cordaid - Joy Saunders, Chief Executive Officer, Integrity Action Moderator: - Jeff Thindwa, Practice Manager, Governance and Inclusive Institutions, Governance Global Practice, World Bank Group 3:30 -5:00 pm - Theories of change on fragility, conflict & violence Experts from the UN, USAID, World Bank, and Alliance for Peacebuilding will present a panel that will illustrate the utility of theories of change for the World Bank community of practice. Panelists will explain how their organizations use theories of change; what theories of change are implicitly or explicitly emphasized in their organization; and/or how their organization uses theories of change to design evidence-based programs and policies. Speakers: - Melissa Brown, USAID Director of Conflict Management and Mitigation - Henk-Jan Brinkman, UN Peacebuilding Support Office - Lisa Schirch, Alliance for Peacebuilding Director of Human Security - Teresa Crawford, Director of Security Sector Reform, Partners for Democratic Change - Steve Commins, World Development Report 2015, World Bank Moderator: - Alexandre Marc, Chief Technical Specialist, Fragility, Conflict, and Violence, World Bank 5:00 – 6:00 pm - CLOSING REMARKS AND RECEPTION (Atrium) - Betty Bigombe, Senior Director, Fragility, Conflict and Violence, World Bank 22
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