JICA
JDZB Berlin
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Draft PROGRAM

Conference Languages: German, English and Japanese with simultaneous translation
Venue: JICA Research Institute, 10-5 Ichigayahonmuracho, Shinjuku, Tokyo

09.00 Registration

09.30 Welcome/ Opening remarks

• Mr. Shiro SADOSHIMA（Vice President, JICA）
• Dr. Volker STANZEL (Ambassador designated of the Federal Republic of Germany to Japan)
• Dr. Friederike BOSSE (Secretary General, JDZB)

09.45-12.00 Session 1:

Germany and Japan’s roles in state-building process

Chair: Dr. Stefan FRIEDRICH (Director, Asia Department, KAS)

09.45 Keynote (15min)

• Dr. Sadako OGATA（President of JICA）(*she will also join the panel discussion）

10.00 Remarks (10min × 3)

• Chinami NISHIMURA（Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs）
• Ms. Birgit SCHNIEBER-JASTRAM（Member of the European Parliament, Member of the Committee on Development Coperation）
• Minister Ali Ahmad JALALI（Distinguished Professor, Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies and Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies）(*he will also join the session 3）

Comments(5 min×3)

• Mr. Matthias NASS（Deputy Editor-in-Chief, DIE ZEIT）
• Dr. Heinrich KREFT（Senior Foreign Policy Advisor, CDU/CSU Group of the German Federal Diet）

Panel discussion／Open discussion

11.45 Lunch

13.15-15.00 Session 2:

German and Japanese development cooperation in and with Southeast Asia

Chair: Ms. Sarah Cliffe（Special Representative/Director, World Development Report Conflict and Fragility, the World Bank）

13.15 Presentations (15min ×4)

• Prof. Keiichi TSUNEKAWA (Vice-President and the Director of the Research Institute, JICA)
• Mr. Wolfgang SCHMITT（Managing Director, GTZ）
• H.E. Mr. Prasidh CHAM（Senior Minister and Minister of Commerce, Cambodia）
• Mr. Jusuf WANANDI (Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies Foundation, Indonesia)

Panel discussion／Open discussion

15.00 Coffee break

15.15-17.15 Session 3:

German and Japanese development cooperation in and with Afghanistan

Chair: Mr. Hiroshi KATO (Deputy Director, JICA Research Institute)

15.15 Presentations (15min × 4)

• Mr. Uwe OHLS (Senior Vice President Asia, KfW Development Bank)
• H.E. Mr. Shigeyuki HIROKI（Ambassador of Japan to Afghanistan）
• Mr. Masataka NAKAHARA (Director General, South Asia Department, JICA)
• Mr. Alastair J. MCKECHNIE (Director, Fragile and Conflict-Affected Countries Group, the World Bank)

Comments(5 min×1)

• Minister Ali Ahmad JALALI (Distiguished Professor, Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies / Former Interior Minister of Afghanistan)

Panel discussion／Open discussion

17.20 Wrap-up / Closing remarks

• Prof. Keiichi TSUNEKAWA (vice-President and the Director of the Research Institute, JICA)
• Dr. Colin DÜRKOP (KAS country representative to Japan and Korea, Seoul)

17.45 End of session

18.30 Farewell dinner hosted by KAS for speakers and other role players

Supported by： Federal Foreign Office/German Embassy in Tokyo, Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan