Provisional agenda

Sunday, 2 July 2006

• Arrival of participants
• Accommodation (Hotel Palestine)
• Registration
• Evening: Welcome reception

Monday, 3 July 2006

9.00-10.30 Session 1: Opening session

• Chair: Ismael Serageldin
• Welcome address: Mohamed al-Faham: “Conference Objectives and Organization”
• Keynote address: Gunilla Olsson: “Learning from Each Other’s Experience”
• Keynote address: Joachim von Braun: “Research Issues in Governance of Natural Resources”
• Keynote address: Mahmoud Mohamed Bachir el-Solh: “Governance of Natural Resources in the Region”
• Keynote address: Ismael Serageldin: “Democratization and Sustainable Development”
• Questions and answers (time permitting)

10.30-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-12.30 Session 2: How can the rural poor be empowered to manage natural resources?

• Chair: Gunilla Olsson
• Speaker: Mona Bishay: “Significance of Empowerment for Development Strategies”
• Keynote speaker: Khalid el-Harizi: “Empowerment: Actors and Structures”
• Discussion
• Rapporteur’s summary and final remarks by chair

12.30-14.00 Lunch break

14.00-15.45 Session 3: Measuring empowerment

• Chair/keynote speaker: Ruth Alsop: “Methodological Issues in Measuring Empowerment”
• Speaker: Ahmed Herzenni: “Morocco case”
• Speaker: Ali Nefzaoui: “Tunisia case”
• Speaker: Babo Fadlalla: “Sudan case”
• Discussion
• Rapporteur’s summary and final remarks by chair

15.45-16.00 Coffee break

16.00-17.45 Session 4: Capability determinants and empowerment processes

• Chair/keynote speaker: Parviz Koohafkan: “On Decentralized Management of Natural Resources”
• Speaker: El Sayed Zaki: “ Sudan case”
• Speaker: Ahmed Herzenni: “Morocco case”
• Speaker: Ali Nefzaoui: “Tunisia case”
• Discussion
• Rapporteur’s summary and final remarks by chair

 

Tuesday, 4 July 2006

8.30-10.15 Session 5: Disabling environments

• Chair: Mohamed Ait Kadi
• Speaker: Youssef Saadani: “Dependency and Autonomy of Grass-roots Organizations in Tunisia”
• Speaker: Bettina Prato: “Resource-Based Conflicts in Kordofan, the Sudan”
• Speaker: Mohamed Tozy: “State Legal Oversight over Communal Lands in Morocco”
• Discussion
• Rapporteur’s summary and final remarks by chair

10.15-10.30  Coffee break

10.30-12.15 Session 6: Towards an enabling policy framework

• Chair/keynote speaker: Regina Birner: “Policy and Politics for Smallholder Agriculture”
• Speaker: Mohamed Tozy: “Morocco case”
• Speaker: Ryadh Zghal: “Tunisia case”
• Speaker: Cheikh el-Mek: “The Sudan case”
• Discussion
• Rapporteur’s summary and final remarks by chair

12.15-13.30 Lunch break

13.30-15.15 Session 7: Strategic implications for government and donor policies

• Chair/introductory remarks: Mona Bishay
• Keynote speaker: Peter Hazell: “The Future of Small Farms in the Near East and North Africa”
• Speaker: Gregory Lazarev: “Development Scenarios in the Region”
• Speaker: Mylène Kherallah: “Strategic Implications for IFAD”
• Discussion
• Rapporteur’s summary and final remarks by chair

15.15-15.45 Coffee break

15.45-17.00Closing session: Next steps?

• Chair: Khalid el-Harizi
• Free discussion from the floor: Assessment of forum outcomes and required follow-up
• Rapporteur’s summary and closing remarks by chair

20.00      Evening Reception

Wednesday, 5 July 2006

• Core research team draws conclusions of the forum and arranges for its proceedings and follow-up
• Guided visit of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina
• Departure of participants