6/7/07 Substantive session of ECOSOC - 2007 List of side-events (other than those related to the humanitarian affairs segment and the Innovation Fair) Date and place Monday 2 July 5:30 pm Mezzanine E building 2 nd floor Title Opening of the exhibitions: Invisible Bridges of Cultures: Africa and Lithuania and Lithuania Today and Tomorrow Organizers The Permanent Mission of Lithuania to the United Nations Tuesday 3 July 1.15 to 2.45 p.m. Overcoming urban poverty: the experience of Bahrain The Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Bahrain to the United Nations Wed. 4 July 11 am to 1 pm Panel discussion on the implementation of the Millenium Development Goals at regional level and roadmaps UN Regional Commissions Mr. Kazi Rahman Chief, Regional Commissions New York Office Tel. (212) 963 55 61 rahman3@un.org Wed. 4 July 3 to 4.30 p.m. Workshop on Education under Attack (including a presentation of the UNESCO study) UNESCO Ms. Ingeborg Breines Director, UNESCO Liaison Office Geneva E-Mail i.breines@unesco.org Tel. 41 22 917 33 81 Fax. 41 22 917 00 64
2 Thursday 5 July 2 to 4 p.m. Room XXVI Panel on multi-stakeholder follow-up to the World Summit on the Information Society ECOSOC and Interorganizational Cooperation Branch (EICB), OESC/DESA The Global Alliance for ICT for Development (GAID) UNCTAD Mrs. Enrica Murmura GAID Tel. 212 963 5913 murmura@un.org Thursday 5 July 3:15 to 5:15 p.m. Room XIX Stakeholder forum on How can the DCF promote enhanced oversight of aid commitments and aid effectiveness for the realization of the internationally agreed development goals (IADGs)? Development Cooperation Policy Branch (DCPB) Office for ECOSOC Support and Coordination UN DESA Mr. Kristinn Helgason, Deputy Chief DPCB/OESC/DESA Tel. (212) 963 8418 e.mail helgason@un.org Mr. Vilhelm Klareskov DPCB/OESC/DESA Tel. (917) 367 4388 e.mail klareskovv@un.org Friday 6 July ) Briefing on the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Secretariat - Co-sponsored by Switzerland Ms. Elina Palm Liaison Officer, UN/ISDR United Nations, New York Tel: (917) 326 1009 palm@un.org, www.unisdr.org Tuesday 10 July 8:30 to 9:45 a.m. Room XXVII Meeting of the Bureau of ECOSOC with the Chairpersons of the functional commissions Office for ECOSOC Support and Coordination, DESA Maria Lehtinen, OESC/DESA tel.(212) 963 7478 email: lehtinen@un.org Mr. Ajit Yogasundram, OESC/DESA Tel. (212) 963 e.mail: yogasundram@un.org
3 Tuesday 10 July Moving Gender Equality forward through the Triennial Comprehensive Policy Review UNDG Task Team on Gender Equality Ingrid Arnò, UNIFEM Tel: (212) 906 5149 Email: Ingrid.arno@unifem.org Friday 13 July Addressing the scourge of armed violence and its impact on sustainable development Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, UNDP Mission of Switzerland Mr. Ronald Dreyer, Mission of Switzerland Tel. 41-31-22 749 24 24 ronald.dreyer@eda.admin.ch Tuesday 17 July 3 to 6 p.m. ICT as a Tool for Peace, Conflict Prevention and Crisis Management The Global Alliance for ICT for Development (GAID) Mrs. Enrica Murmura GAID Tel. 212 963 5913 murmura@un.org Wed. 18 July 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 to 6 p.m. Workshop for the National Focal Points of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) United Nations Office of the High Representative for LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS (UN-OHRLLS) Carol A.M. Sakubita UN-OHRLLS United Nations Secretariat Room S-770CC New York, NY 10017 Tel: 917-367-5710 Fax: 917-367-3415 or 212-963-0419 E-mail: sakubita@un.org Website: http://www.un.org/ohrlls Thursday 19 July 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Forum on Development Assistance United Nations Office of the High Representative for LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS (UN-OHRLLS) Carol A.M. Sakubita UN-OHRLLS United Nations Secretariat Room S-770CC New York, NY 10017
4 Tel: 917-367-5710 Fax: 917-367-3415 or 212-963-0419 E-mail: sakubita@un.org Website: http://www.un.org/ohrlls Thursday 19 July 2-6:30 p.m. Room IX High-level roundtable on Building a Knowledge Society for All: the role of Science, Technology and Innovation & the Importance of creating Trust to foster Partnerships United Nations Conference on Trade and Development The Global Alliance for ICT and Development Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Mr. Mongi Hamdi, Chief of Science and Technology, UNCTAD, and Secretary of the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development Tel. 41 22 917 5069 E-mail: mongi.hamdi@unctad.org Friday 20 July 3:00-6:00 p.m. Room XXV Panel discussion on institution building for countries emerging from conflict Office for ECOSOC Support and Coordination DESA Mr. Sergei Kambalov Director, EICB/OESC/DESA Tel. 212 963 4751 kambalov@un.org Ms. Leslie Wade Senior Officer EICB/OESC/DESA Tel. 212 963 4420 wade@un.org Mr. Marc-André Dorel Programme Officer EICB/OESC/DESA Tel. 212 963 7204 dorel@un.org Monday 23 July Tax Avoidance and Evasion as an Impediment to Development Financing for Development Office/DESA and the Tax Justice Network Mr. Masa Ohyama FFDO/DESA Tel. 963 4695 ohyama@un.org Mr. Michael Lennard FFDO/DESA
5 Tel 917-367-5734 lennard@un.org