Details

On Monday, January 26th 2009

Location

Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum Berlin (JDZB), Saargemünder Strasse 2, 14195 Berlin

09.00

• Registration

• Inaugural
• Dr. Friederike Bosse, General Secretray of the JDZB
• Dr. Sadako Ogata, President der JICA
• Dr. Gerhard Wahlers, deputy General Secretary of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

• Session 1:Capacity building and human security: corner stones in German and Japanese development assistance
• Chair: Dr. Stefan Mair, Foundation Science an Politics (SWP)
• Dr. Gerhard Wahlers, deputy general secretary of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
• Masato Watanabe, deputy president of the International Bureau at the Japanese Foreign Office
• Prof. Tsunekawa Keiichi, Vice-President, JICA
• Wolfgang Schmidt, manager, gtz

• Discussion

12.00

• Lunch

13.30

• Session 2:German and Japanese development cooperation in and with Africa
• Chair: Dr. Volkmar Köhler, former parliamentary secretary and chairman of the planning committee of the main section International Cooperation of the KAS
• MinDirig Thomas Albert, departement manager Africa/Near East of the federal ministry of economical cooperation in Bonn
• Oumar Wade, project manager Taataan, Dakar/Senegal
• Michele Ruiters, Development Bank of Southern Africa, Midrand&South Africa
• Kazunori Oshiyama, president of the section Africa of the JICA

• Discussion

15.30

• Tea break

16.00

• Transfer with Bus zur Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
• Location Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Tiergartenstrasse 35, 10785 Berlin
• Germany and Japan Managing the Challenges of Global Governance - Global Responsibility in Development Cooperation

16.45

• Registration

17.15

• Introduction
• Prof. Dr. Norbert Lammert, President of the German Bundestages and deputy chairman of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

17.30

• Welcoming Speech
• Nobuhide Minorikawa, parliamentary secretary of the Japanese Foreign Office

17.35

• Keynote
• Dr. Sadako Ogata, President of the JICA

18.05

• Paneldiscussion
• Chair: Dr. Gerhard Wahlers, deputy general secretary of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
• Eckart von Klaeden, MdB, foreign policy spokesman of the CDU/CSU-paliamentary party at the Bundestag
• Dr. Christian Ruck, MdB, spokesman of the development policy of the CDU/CSU-paliamentary party at the Bundestag
• Keiko Chino, special correspondent of the newspaper Sankei Shimbun, Tokyo
• S.E. Takahiro Shinyo, Ambassador of Japan
• Dr. Sadako Ogata, President of the JICA

19.30

• End of the event

20.00

• Reception
• Given by the Japanese Ambassador, S. E. Dr. Takahiro Shinyo

• Location Botschaft Japans, Hiroshimastrasse 6, 10785 Berlin

Languages on conference: German, English and Japanese simultaneously.

The event is supported by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).