WEDNESDAY, 17 SEPTEMBER 2008

16:00 Departure from Bucharest

21:00 Dinner

THURSDAY, 18 SEPTEMBER 2008

9.00 – 9.30 Registration of the participants

9.30 – 10.15 Opening of the Development Camp

Short film on development assistance – “Fighting Poverty – the EU in

action” produced by EuropeAid
Welcome remarks by UN Resident Coordinator/UNDP Resident
Representative, Mr. Jan Sorensen
Welcome remarks by the District Governor of Braşov, Mrs. Adriana Dontu
Welcome remarks by MFA representative, Ms. Anamaria Almasan

10.15 – 10.45 Romanian ODA

Legal and institutional framework, objectives and priorities
Ms. Anamaria Almasan, Deputy Director, Directorate for Development
Assistance, MFA
Q& A / Debates
10.45 – 11.00 Coffee break

11.00 – 12.30 International development cooperation: priorities and

challenges ahead

Global policy frameworks for development cooperation.

Mr. Jan Sorensen, UN Resident Coordinator/UNDP Resident Representative
for Romania
 Priorities for the French EU Presidency in the field of
development cooperation (incl. food crises)
Mrs. Anne Sophie Ducreux, Bureau du pilotage stratégique de l'aide, MFA
France
EU development policy
Mr. Timo Olkkonen, DG Development and Relations with African,
Caribbean and Pacific States, European Commission
Q& A / Debates

12.30 – 13.45 Lunch

13.45 – 15.45 Working jointly for results and development impact

Aid effectiveness. EU Code of Conduct on Division of Labour in
Development Policy
Mr. Timo Olkkonen, DG Development and Relations with African,
Caribbean and Pacific States, European Commission
Policy coherence in practice
Mrs. Marleen Monster, Senior Senior Policy Advisor, Policy Coherence
Unit, MFA, the Netherlands
Developing country’s ownership
Mr. Enrique Maruri, Director, MFA, Colombia

The UNV programme - contributing to development effectiveness

Ms.Dagmar Schumacher, Head of Partnerships Unit, UN Volunteers Bonn
Q& A / Debates
15.45-16.00 Coffee break

16.00 – 17.30 Multilateral channels for development cooperation

UN channels and mechanisms
Mr. Daniel Hanspach, Emerging Donors Policy Specialist, UNDP Bratislava
World Bank’s role (instruments and facilities)
Mr. Lucian Pop, Social Development Specialist, WB Romania
EU instruments and facilities for development cooperation
Mr. Gian Luca Bombarda, consultant EuropeAid
Q& A / Debates
17.30-17.45 Coffee break

17.45 - 18.45 Role of aid volunteers

Mr. Frank Flood, Deputy Director, Irish AID Volunteers and Information
Center
Ms. Daria Catalui, Romanian volunteer, the National Youth Council,
Romania
Q& A / Debates
18.45 – 19.00 Conclusions of the day
19.30 - 22.00 Dinner

FRIDAY, 19 SEPTEMBER 2008

09.00 – 10.00 Delivering bilateral ODA

Planning, programming, implementing projects and programs

Monitoring, measuring results, audit. Evaluation of program
impact. Procurement.
Mr. Jonas Bergstrom, SIDA, Sweden
Q& A / Debates

10.00-10.15 Coffee break

10.15 -12.30 Case studies (focusing on donor landscape, aid coordination

specificities of the beneficiary country, lessons learnt)
Serbia
Mr. Jonas Bergstrom, SIDA, Sweden
Republic of Moldova
Mr. Jochen de Haas, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and
Development, Germany
Latin America - Triangular cooperation
Mr. Enrique Maruri, Director, MFA of Columbia
Q & A / Debates

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 16.00 Case studies

Africa: aid coordination

Mrs. Anne Sophie Ducreux, MFA of France
Ms. Olivia Baciu, Partners Foundation for Local Development, Romania

Afghanistan: field experience in a fragile state

Mr. Pablo Yuste, AECID Spain
Georgia
Mr. Tomasz Orlowski, Eastern Department, MFA of the Republic of Poland
Q & A / Debates

16.00 - 16.15 Conclusions of the day

17.00 Departure to Brasov

18.00 – 19:30 Opening of the Romanian-French MDGs posters’
exhibition in Braşov

19.30 - 22.00 Dinner offered by the local authorities of Braşov

Guest Speaker: Mr. Anton Niculescu, Secretary of State, Romanian
MFA

22.00 Departure to Cheile Gradistei

SATURDAY, 20 SEPTEMBER 2008

9.00 – 10.15 Private Public Partnership

Mr. John Hodges, consultant PPP, DFID, UK

Mrs. Michelle Barrett, US Agency for International Development, Regional
Services Center, Budapest
Q & A / Debates

10.15 - 10.30 Coffee break

10.30 – 12.30 Development education. Communication. Role of civil

society.
Mrs. Helen O’Neil, professor, Centre for Development Studies, University
College Dublin, Ireland
Mr. David Pratt, Head of Communications, MECAB, DFID
Ms. Andra Tanase, director, Youth Peace Building, PATRIR, Romania
Mr. Valentin Burada, FOND, the Romanian NGDO platform
Q & A / Debates
12.30-13.00 Evaluation and conclusions

13.00 – 14:00 Lunch

14.30-21.00 Short trip in the area:
- visit to Bran Castle
- visit to the Rasnov Fortresse

21.00 Dinner

SUNDAY, 21 SEPTEMBER 2008

11.00 Departure for Bucharest