Monday, 29 September 2003
 

09:30 a.m.	Opening Session
	Welcome Address and Chair	Gudrun Kochendörfer-Lucius Managing Director InWEnt - Capacity Building International Germany
	Opening Address	Erich Stather State Secretary Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Germany Promoting human rights in the work of the BMZ
	Keynotes	Arjun K. Sengupta Adjunct Professor of Development and Human Rights Harvard School of Public Health Independent Expert on the Right to Development Human Rights Commission India From the "Right to Development" debate to "A Human Rights Approach in Development Cooperation"
		Maria-Luisa Silva on behalf of the Acting High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) Coordinator Human Rights and Development Unit Geneva The Human Rights Approach: New ways to integrate human rights in development cooperation
	Coffee Break
	Group Photo
11:00 a.m.	Plenary Session I Linking Human Rights Policy and Development Cooperation Does development cooperation inherently involve implementing human rights or is there more required? Which starting points can the work of the UN treaty committees provide in designing development cooperation with the goal of promoting human rights? How are Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and human rights issues connected?
	Chair	Birgit Lindsnæs Deputy Director The Danish Institute for Human Rights Denmark
	Inputs	Selim Jahan Senior Adviser Employment for Poverty Reduction Bureau for Development Policy United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) New York Human rights issues in monitoring MDGs
		Salma Khan Chairperson NGO Coalition on Beijing Plus Five (NCBP) Bangladesh To what extent could the UN Conventions and in particular the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) suit the purpose of promoting human rights in development cooperation?
		Annette Windmeisser Desk Officer Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Germany Elements in a development policy promoting human rights
	Discussion
12:30 p.m.	Lunch
	Keynote	Luis Moreno Ocampo Chief Prosecutor International Criminal Court The Hague The potential of the International Criminal Court to effectively implement human rights
02:00 p.m.	Plenary Session II Creating a Human Rights Framework for Bilateral Development Cooperation What significance does differing between direct and indirect promotion of human rights have for development policy formulation? How can the negative effects of development cooperation projects on a country's human rights situation be avoided? From the experience of other bilateral donors in promoting human rights in development cooperation, are there lessons learned for the German bilateral development cooperation, e.g. agreeing on competences, institutional frameworks, and cooperation between state and civil society actors?
	Chair and Introduction	Cornelia Richter Head of Department Planning and Development Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) Germany
	Inputs	Hans Docter Senior Policy Advisor Department for Human Rights and Peacebuilding Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Netherlands The government of the Netherlands' approach of incorporating human rights into development cooperation
		Lisa Fredriksson Handling Officer Division for Democratic Governance Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) Sweden Integrating a human rights approach in Swedish development cooperation
		Hildegard Lingnau Researcher German Development Institute (GDI) Germany Preliminary findings from the GDI consultancy project "The Human Rights Approach for German Development Cooperation"
03:30 p.m.	Coffee Break
04:00 p.m.	Plenary Session III Multilateral Development Cooperation in Practice: Ensuring a Responsibility to Protect Human Rights? How can the postulate of a more political development cooperation aimed at promoting democratisation, good governance and human rights be realised in effective project work? In terms of mainstreaming human rights concerns into German development policy, can existing projects to promote human rights provide criteria in the institutional, planning or subject areas? How are positive measures received as a way to shape policy in comparison to consultation and sanctions?
	Chair and Introduction	Lee Waldorf Human Rights Advisor United Nations Development Fund for Women/ UNIFEM New York
	Inputs	Timothy Clarke Head of Unit Democracy and Human Rights EuropeAid Cooperation Office Brussels The European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) - supporting and promoting human rights and democracy in third countries within the framework of EU Foreign Policy
		Thord Palmlund Coordinator Human Rights' Strengthening Programme (HURIST) United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) New York HURIST- a pilot programme for cooperation between UNDP and the Office of the UN High Commission for Human Rights
		Sabine Schlemmer-Schulte Professor of International Law University of Leiden The Netherlands The significance of human rights in the work of the World Bank Inspection Panel
	Discussion
05:30 p.m.	End of Session
06:00 p.m.	Departure to the restaurant "Brauerei Früh Kölsch"
10:00 p.m.	Return to the hotel

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