Global Responsibility in Development Cooperation of Japan and Germany - Foundation Office Japan / Regional Economic Programme Asia (SOPAS)
Symposium
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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