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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)

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）

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）

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

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)

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)

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

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)

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