Challenges and Opportunities: Providing Assistance to People in Burma/Myanmar
Conference
Agenda
09.00 - 09.30 Keynote Speech by Mr Hervé Jouanjean, Deputy Director-General for Asia and Latin
America, External Relations Directorate General, European Commission
09.30 - 10.15 Presentation of the report “Supporting Burma/Myanmar’s national
reconciliation process: Challenges and
opportunities” by Robert
Taylor and Morten Pedersen
10.30 – 12.00 Discussion of the report
Panel
speakers:
Derek Tonkin, Specialist on investment in countries of the Mekong Region,
former British Ambassador to
Harn Yawnghwe, Director, Euro-Burma Office
Kyaw Yin Hlaing, assistant professor,
Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore
Charles Petrie, UN Resident Coordinator, Yangon
BUFFET LUNCH
at venue
13.30 – 15.00 Panel I: Policy Dialogue
On macro-economic
policy – Brad Babson,
Consultant
“Australia's Human Rights Initiative
2000-2003” - Trevor Wilson,
Australian Ambassador to Myanmar 2000-2003; Visiting Fellow, Department of
Political and Social Change, Australian National University, Canberra
NGO Perspective – Guy Stallworthy,
Country Director, Population Services International
15.15-16.45 Panel II:
Priority Programmes
On
basic education – Elke Wisch, Deputy
Representative, UNICEF
On small-scale
agriculture – Debbie Aung Din Taylor, Country
Director, International Development Enterprises (IDE)
Creating
sustainable drug-free alternative livelihoods in the border area of Thailand
& Burma/Myanmar - M.R. Disnadda Diskul,
Chief Executive Officer Doi Tung
Development Project
On community
development – Alan McMahon,
UNOPS-CDRT
Conclusions