Programme overview
2nd GIZ Professional Forum Health and Social Protection
‘Health and Social Protection: The Political Economy Dimension’
13./14. January 2011, Gustav-Stresemann-Institute, Bonn
Programme
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Thursday, 13 January |
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8:30 – 9:00 |
Registration |
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9:00 – 9:30 |
Welcome and opening |
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9:30 – 11:00 |
Plenary session 1: Keynotes: Discussants: Panel discussion and plenary discussion |
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11:00 – 11:30 |
Tea break |
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11:30 – 13:00 |
Working Groups
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13:00 – 14:00 |
Lunch break |
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14:00 – 15:00 |
Plenary session 2: Keynotes: Questions & Answers |
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15:00 – 16:30
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Working Groups
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| 16:30 – 17:00 | Tea Break |
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17:00 – 18:00 |
Conclusion of the day Panel Discussion: |
| 18:30 | Meeting in front of GSI for joint walk to restaurant |
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19:00 |
Joint dinner-buffet at the "Rheingarten" restaurant Welcome address by Joachim Prey, Deputy Director General, Planning and Development Department, GIZ |
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Friday, 14 January |
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9:00 – 9.15 |
Review of day 1, presented by selected participants |
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9.15 – 10.15 |
Plenary Session 3: Keynotes: Questions & Answers |
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10.15 – 10.45 |
Tea Break |
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10:45 – 11:45 |
Working Groups
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11:45 – 13:00 |
Buzz groups: Participants reflect on key lessons learnt, challenges and the way forward |
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13:00 – 14:00 |
Lunch break |
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14:00 – 15.30 |
Plenary session 4: Talk show: Questions & Answers |
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15:30 – 16:00 |
Closing remarks Ralf-Matthias Mohs, Division Head, Millennium Development Goals, Poverty Reduction, Social Protection, Sectoral and Thematic Policies, BMZ |
Keynote Presenters/Discussants
Mr Alex Duncan; Principal, The Policy Practice; Senior Associate Member, African Studies Centre, University of Oxford.
Alex Duncan began his career as an agricultural economist, but much of his work since 2002 has been on the political economy of development. He has had a particular long-term interest in eastern and southern Africa, though in recent years he has also worked in west Africa and south Asia. His work has included policy and institutional analyses of subjects including governance, public expenditure management, strengthening the private sector and markets, agriculture, rural development, land reform and food security. Inter alia, he has been closely involved with initial thinking on the ‘Drivers of Change’ approach to understanding development issues, and has been involved in applying it in several countries of Asia and Africa.
He is by origin South African, finishing his education at Oxford and Reading Universities. He has worked for FAO, the World Bank, and Oxford University and as a consultant, living mainly in the UK, but also in southern Sudan and Lesotho. He is a Principal of the Policy Practice, a Senior Research Associate of the African Studies Centre in Oxford, and a Senior Associate Member of St. Antony’s College, Oxford. He is a trustee of Save the Children UK.
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Dr. Nadia Molenaers, PhD in political science. Lecturer at the University of Antwerp at the Institute of Development Policy and Management. She teaches ‘Politics of Aid’, ‘Politics of Development’, ‘Governance’. Her research focuses on Aid under the New Aid Approach (Paris Declaration and AAA). More particularly she has worked/published on civil society participation in PRSPs, the EC Governance incentive tranche, conditionalities, Northern NGOs and the Paris Declaration, Budget Support and political crisis, Policy Dialogue.
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Jean Bossuyt (1959), a Belgian national, is Head of Strategy of the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM), an independent foundation, based in Maastricht and Brussels, which seeks to play the role of an ‘honest broker’ role in ACP-EU cooperation processes. For the last twenty years, he has facilitated dialogue between ACP-EU actors and done extensive practical (field) research on a variety of topics such as the political dimensions of partnership, (sector) governance, civil society development, decentralisation processes and recently on issues related to domestic accountability. He has been involved in programmes of institutional development, including with the African Union Commission. He has been team leader of several major evaluations, including on EC support to governance (2006) and on the use of civil society as an EC aid delivery channel (2008). He has published extensively on these topics and been involved in training seminars both in Europe and in Africa. Prior to joining ECDPM, he worked at the Centre for Third World Studies at the University of Ghent (Belgium), the Brussels Delegation of the UNHCR and as a civil servant in the Belgian Parliament.
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Dr. Inke Mathauer is a health systems development specialist, holding a MSc and PhD from the London School of Economics. She is working in the Department of Health Systems Financing of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva. Her work involves health financing policy advice to ministries of health, tool development and conceptual work on health financing performance and the role of organizations and institutions, as well as social health insurance financial/technical feasibility assessments. Her particular interest lies in health financing system reviews with an institutional-organizational focus.
Prior to WHO, she worked several years for the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) both at Headquarters and in Kenya, where she headed the quality management as well as health financing project activities of the GTZ supported health sector program. She provided policy and technical advice to the Kenyan ministry of health and the National Hospital Insurance Fund. Inke Mathauer has also undertaken several institutional analysis consultancies for the World Bank in the field of health and social protection. Earlier, she worked in Benin and Uganda at local and district level. She has published articles and written book chapters on various health systems and health financing issues.
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Dr. Kirsten Havemann is a social and public health specialist with interest and expertise in health and social sector analysis, design and systems development. She has extensive knowledge and skills in participatory and action oriented research and operations. After her more than 20 years of field experience in Africa and Asia where she held substantive posts, such as Senior Adviser for the Danish Government, she moved to the World Bank’s Social Development Department working on social accountability. She thereafter worked for WHO as governance research officer and now work for the Danish Government as Senior Adviser for Health, currently posted to Maputo in Mozambique.
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Joachim Schmitt: Master Degree in Political and Administrative Science; Joined BMZ in 1996;
Until 2000 in charge for the "political dimensions of German development cooperation" within the General Policy Division;
2005 until 2008: Counsellor for Development Cooperation at the German Embassy in Accra/Ghana, coordination German development cooperation activities in Ghana as well as co-chairing the Multi-Donor Budget Support Group in 2007/2208;
Since 2009 division for health and population policy in BMZ, in charge especially of MDG 4 and 5, the right to health and population dynamics.
I have always been very interested in factors driving or hampering the development of societies and do believe that official development cooperation still too often falls short of taking all of these into account.
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Dr. Klaus J Hornetz is the current Sector Coordinator of the Kenyan - German Development Cooperation in Health Care and Program Leader of the GTZ Health Sector Programme Kenya. A medical doctor with a postgraduate degree in health social policy, planning and financing he has many years of experience in public health and health systems development, in the areas of Social Health protection, Health and Social Systems Policy.
Klaus H. has worked as manager and advisor in various position for German Federal and State Governments, multilateral donors, the German Development Bank (KFW) and GTZ on short- and longer-term missions both in the German health care system and abroad. His international experience covers about 40 countries in Europe, Middle East / Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, with a particular focus on Africa. Most of his assignments took place at the interface between health systems and the political level.
During his tenure in Kenya Klaus H. initiated and supported a number of innovations and initiatives aimed at strengthening health systems and improving equitable access to good quality healthcare. Among these initiatives include the formulation of the health financing strategy, the establishment of the Health Network of NGOs in Kenya (HENNET) and the Private–for-Profit Health Care Consortium.
Klaus Hornetz is currently serving as the chair of the Development Partners in Health in Kenya (DPHK) and is representing development partners in Kenya in the focal areas of health Financing, Public Financial Management and Sexual and Reproductive Health.
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Dr. Simon Koppers: Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung - Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); Head of Division Education, Health, Population Policies.
- Economics at University of Bonn and UC Berkeley;
- Ph.D. 1994, University of Bonn;
- Feb. 1994 - Nov. 1996 KfW, Project Manager, mainly on Central Africa;
- Dec. 1996 - March 2009 BMZ, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Advisor (West Africa; Evaluation;
Controlling; Organisation; Infrastructure; Southern Africa);
- April 2009 BMZ, Head of Division; Health, Population Policies.
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Dr. Andreas Kalk: General and orthopedic surgeon in Germany, Mozambique and Nigeria 1985-1997; Public Health studies in Liverpool, than Medical Director of German Leprosy Relief 1990-2002; Health Sector Coordinator German Cooperation in Rwanda 2003-07; Head of GTZ Health Sector 2008/09; since 2009 Regional Director GIZ in Yaoundé, responsible for TC with Cameroon, Tchad, CAR, Gabon and S. Tomé.
Particular interest in health financing.
