Pacific Sub Regional Centre

List of papers presented at the Workshop

The following papers were presented at the MDG-based planning, and the development of a pro-policy and budgeting framework:

Session 1: Progress on the MDGs in the context of national development efforts in the Pacific - setting the context: Carol Flore-Smereczniak, UNDP Pacific Centre.

Session 2: Target setting: Adapting/Adopting the MDGs: Papua New Guinea, Mrs. Yasap Popoitai, Assistant Secretary, Sector Policy, Department of National Planning & Monitoring, PNG.

Session 3: Localising the MDGs: Suggestions for alternatives where MDG goals and indicators can be adapted for PICs, Garth Parry, Consultant.

Session 4: The Integrated Package of Services, Omar Noman, UNDP Colombo Regional Centre.

Session 5: Poverty in the Pacific, David Abbott, UNDP Pacific Centre.

Session 6: Panel: Key data sources, indicators, data systems, Arthur Jorari & Phil Bright, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, & Amit Singh, UNDP Pacific Sub Regional Centre

Session 7: Population and Poverty Linkages in the MDG context, Jean Louis Rallu, UNFPA.

Session 8: MDG needs assessments and costing methodology - Costing MDG1, Yuba Raj Khatiwada, UNDP Colombo Regional Centre.

Session 9: Costing MDG 2-7, Roger Montgomery, Consultant.

Session 10: From costing to financing: Looking at Medium Term Expenditure Frameworks and Annual Budgets: David Hutton, Consultant.

Session 10: From costing to financing: Looking at Medium Term Expenditure Framework Four Case Studies.

Session 11: What constitutes pro-poor policy, and how to measure whether budgets are pro-poor?, David Abbott, UNDP Pacific Centre.

Session 12: Budgeting to reduce poverty and achieve the MDGs: If budgets are to be gender-sensitive, what do we need to consider? Koh Miyaoi, UNDP Colombo Regional Centre.

Session 13: MDG process monitoring in Caribbean islands, Degol Hailu, UNDP Caribbean Sub-Regional Resource Facility.

Session 14: Aid Effectiveness in the Pacific - good practice, Noumea Simi, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Samoa.

Session 15:Forum Principles on Aid Effectiveness in the Pacific, Patricia Sachs-Cornish, Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat.

Session 16:Aid Coordination & Management to achieve the MDGs, Aidan Cox, UNDP Bangkok Regional Centre.

Session 17:Panel on Governance and MDG Achievement: Regional Overview of Governance and MDG Achievement in the Pacific: Garry Wiseman, UNDP Pacific Centre.

What indicators can be used to monitor governance performance in the Pacific : Jon Fraenkel, University of South Pacific.

CSO engagement in the MDG framework: Geoff Prewitt, UNDP Bratislava Regional Centre.

How Governance has impacted on development in Solomon Islands: Rick Hou, Governor, Central Bank, Solomon Islands.

Session 18: How to Plan for MDG-based National Development Strategies, Yuba Raj Khatiwada, UNDP Colombo Regional Centre.

Session 19: Capacity development to achieve the MDGs, Aidan Cox, UNDP Bangkok Regional Centre.

Session 20:Panel Pro-poor policy formulation: Population policies to reduce poverty, Jean Louis Rallu, UNFPA.

Employment policies to reduce poverty among youth, Margaret Reade Rounds, ILO.

Gender mainstreaming policies to reduce poverty, Koh Miyaoi, UNDP Colombo Regional Centre.

Session 21: Trade and cross-border investment to achieve the MDGs, Ratnakar Adhikari, UNDP Colombo Regional Centre.

Session 22: Sectoral and cross-sectoral policy, Padma Lal, Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat.

Session 23:NSDS stock-take and MDGs, Russell Howorth, Consultant.

Session 24:PIFS' role in assisting countries with NSDS and the budgeting process, Padma Lal, Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat.

Session 25:MDG role of SPC in the region, Linda Petersen, Secretariat of the Pacific Community.

Moving forward with the Integrated Package of Services, Yuba Raj Khatiwada, UNDP Colombo Regional Centre.

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