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Cities: Grounding the Development Agenda
March 9–10, 2005
World Bank, Washington, DC
Preston Auditorium
B-SPAN coverage of Opening and Focal City Presentations
Program with links to the presentations
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2005
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| 8:15–9:00am |
Registration and Light Breakfast |
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SESSION I -- WELCOME AND OPENING OF DAY 1
Objective: to provide an overview of urban challenges and opportunities, to emphasize the need for coherent interventions in cities and to outline how the structure of the Forum facilitates exploring the inter-connectivity of urban interventions.
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| 9:00–9:15am |
Welcome
Maryvonne Plessis-Fraissard, Director, Transportation and Urban Development Department
Eleoterio Codato, Sector Manager, Urban Unit, Transport and Urban Development Department |
| 9:15–9:45am |
Opening
Katherine Sierra, Network Head and Vice President, Infrastructure |
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SESSION II -- FOCAL CITY PRESENTATIONS
Objective: to enhance understanding of cities from the perspectives of multiple urban interventions and to receive feedback from our external clients – mayors.
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| 9:45–11:00am |
City Panel Presentation: Bogota, Colombia
Session chair: Mila Freire, Regional Adviser, Latin America & Caribbean Region
(Simultaneous interpretation in Spanish/English will be provided.)
- Honorable Sr. Luís Eduardo Garzón, Alcalde Mayor de Bogotá, D.C.
- Mauricio Cuellar, Senior Transport Specialist, Transport, LAC
- Francis Ghesquiere, Senior Urban Specialist, Urban, LAC
- Ronald MacLean-Abaroa, Lead Public Management Specialist, WB
Questions and answers
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| 11:00–11:15am |
Coffee Break |
| 11:15–12:30pm |
City Panel Presentation: Maputo, Mozambique
Session chair: Jaime Biderman, Sector Manager, Africa Region
Questions and answers
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| 12:30–1:45pm |
Lunch Break (lunch vouchers provided for use in the MC cafeteria) |
| 1:45–3:00pm |
City Panel Presentation: Foshan City, China
Session chair: Keshav Varma, Sector Director, Urban, East Asia and Pacific Region
(Simultaneous interpretation in Chinese/English will be provided.)
- Honorable Xiaoguang Yang, Vice Mayor of Foshan Municipal Government
- Songsu Choi, Lead Urban Economist, East Asia and Pacific Region
- Tunney Lee, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Shahid Yusuf, Economic Adviser, Development Research Group
Questions and answers
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| 3:00–3:15pm |
Coffee Break |
| 3:15–4:30pm |
City Panel Presentation: Tbilisi, Georgia
Session chair: Lee Travers, Sector Manager, Infrastructure and Energy Department, ECA
Questions and answers
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| 4:30–5:15pm |
Breakout Sessions
Breakout sessions based on themes covered in the integrated city presentations. |
| 5:15–5:45pm |
Report from Breakout Sessions and Day 1 Wrap-up
Eleoterio Codato, Sector Manager, Urban Unit, Transport and Urban Development Department |
| 5:30pm |
Reception (12th Floor Gallery) |
| THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 2005 |
| 8:15–9:00am |
Light Breakfast |
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SESSION III -- WELCOME AND OPENING OF DAY 2
Objective: to emphasize the inter-relationships of multiple urban interventions in cities and to discuss ways in which potential synergies can be operationally harnessed.
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| 9:00–9:15am |
Welcome and Day 2 Opening
Maryvonne Plessis-Fraissard, Director, Transport and Urban Development Department |
| 9:15–9:45am |
Plenary Address
Gregory Ingram, Director General, Operations Evaluation
Questions and answers |
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SESSION IV -- CITIES AND GROWTH: MEGACITIES VS. SECONDARY CITIES
Objective: to discuss the different economic roles of very large/megacities versus secondary cities and factors affecting their development.
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| 9:45–11:00am |
Chair: Christine Kessides, Senior Adviser, Urban Unit, Transport and Urban Development Department
• Zmarak Shalizi, Senior Manager, Development Research Group
• Shahid Yusuf, Economic Adviser, Development Research Group
Questions and answers |
| 11:00–11:15am |
Coffee Break |
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SESSION V -- LEARNING AND INNOVATION
Objective: to highlight good practices and innovation in Bank urban projects particularly as they relate to reconciling multiple objectives.
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| 11:15–1:00pm |
Chair: Sonia Hammam, Sector Manager, South Asia Region
• El-Mina Resettlement Operation in Nouakchott – Christian Diou, Sr. Municipal Engineer, Africa Region
• Improving our Knowledge of Housing Subsidies: The Case of Morocco – David Le Blanc, Sr. Economist, Urban Unit
• Street Addressing and City Management – Catherine Farvacque, Lead Urban Specialist, Africa Region, and Roberto Chavez, Lead Urban Specialist, Urban Unit
• Ghana Housing Finance – Bob Buckley, Urban Housing Adviser, Urban Unit, and Olivier Hassler, Sr. Housing Finance Specialist, Financial Sector Operations & Policy
• Good Practice in Solid Waste – Sandra Cointreau, Solid Waste Management Adviser, Urban Unit
• Energy and Slum Upgrading – Dominique Lallement, Adviser, Energy Management Assistance Program
• Accounting and Budgeting in MENA – Stephen Karam, Sr. Urban Economist, Middle East & North Africa Region
• Mauritania Ancient Cities: A pilot project – Christian Diou, Sr. Municipal Engineer, Africa Region, and Anna Sidorenko-Dulom, World Heritag, UNESCO
• Post Tsunami Reconstruction – Margaret Arnold, Sr. Program Officer, Urban Unit
• Johannesburg Municipal Bond – Matt Glasser, Sr. Urban Management Specialist, Africa Region
Questions and answers |
| 1:00–2:15pm |
Lunch (12th Floor Gallery) |
| 2:15–3:00pm |
Breakout Sessions
Breakout sessions (with coffee) structured around main urban portfolio themes. |
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SESSION VI -- CITY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES
Objective: to discuss experience with CDS as a tool for strategic coordination of multiple urban interventions.
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| 3:00–4:00pm |
Chair: Hedi Larbi, Sector Manager, Middle East and North Africa Region
• Alexandria (Egypt) -- Ahmed Eiweida, Sr. Urban Management Specialist, MNA
• Dosso and Maradi (Niger) -- Alicia Casalis, Urban Development Specialist, AFR
• Lima (Peru), Taimur Samad, Consultant, LAC
• Chengdu, Lanzhou, Erdos, Xinxiang and Zhengzhou (China) -- Mats Andersson, Sr. Urban Management Specialist, EAP
Questions and answers
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| 4:00–4:30pm |
Closing
Maryvonne Plessis-Fraissard, Director, Transportation and Urban Development Department |
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