Thursday 18 October 2012

09:00-09:20

Keynote address:

Alison Evans (Director, Overseas Development Institute, United Kingdom)

THEME 3: GENDER, LIFE COURSE AND SOCIETAL GROUPS

09:20-09:50

Part 1 in plenary

Chair: Martin Hirsch (President, Agence du service civique, France)

Overview address:

Michelle Bachelet video (Executive Director, UN Women)

09:50-10:20

Tea & coffee break / Exhibition

10:20-11:50

Part 2 workshops in parallel

3a

3b

3c

3d

Empowering women

Nurturing children

Caring for the elderly

Recognising societal groups and minority rights

Workshop Chair 3a

Nick Bridge (United Kingdom Ambassador to the OECD)

Workshop Chair 3b

Fiona Stanley (University of Western Australia, Australia)

Introduction
Conclusion

Workshop Chair 3c

John Martin (Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Directorate, OECD)

Workshop Chair 3d

Syeda Hameed (Planning Commission, India)

Panellist 3ai

Monika Queisser (Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD)

Panellist 3bi

Andrea Rossi (Regional Office for South Asia, UNICEF)

Panellist 3ci

Naoto Yamauchi (Osaka University, Japan)

Panellist 3di

Ioannis N. Dimitrakopoulos (European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights)

Panellist 3aii

Yamini Atmavilas (Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad, India)

Panellist 3bii

David McNair (Save the Children, United Kingdom)

Panellist 3cii

Douglas May (former Head of the Department of Economics and Past- President of the Atlantic Canada Economics Association, Canada)

Panellist 3dii

Lisa Jackson Pulver (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Panellist 3aiii

Fatima Ahmed (Zenab for Women in Development, Sudan)

Panellist 3biii

Dinesh Paul (National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development, India)

Panellist 3ciii

Rahimah Ibrahim (University Putra, Malaysia)

Panellist 3diii

Susan Brutschy (Applied Survey Research, United States)

Panellist 3aiv

Patti O’Neill (Network on Gender Equality of the OECD Development Assistance Committee)

Panellist 3biv

Maria Cristina Gomes da Conceição (Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Mexico)

Panellist 3civ

Ghazy Mujahid (presented by Tim Clode)

Panellist 3av

Nazneen Kanji (Quality of Life assessment programme, Aga Khan Development Network)

General discussion

General discussion

General discussion

General discussion

11:50-13:10

Lunch / Exhibition

12:10-12:40

Lunchtime Seminar on the OECD Better Life Initiative: Romina Boarini (Statistics Directorate, OECD) and Anthony Gooch (Public Affairs and Communications Directorate, OECD)

13:10-14:30

art 3 in plenary

Introduction by Theme Chair

Reports by Workshop Chairs

General discussion and conclusions by Theme Chair

14:30-15:00

Keynote address:

Introduction by Simon Upton (Director, Environment Directorate, OECD)

Shri Jairam Ramesh (Honourable Union Minister of Rural Development, Drinking Water and Sanitation, Government of India)

15:00-15:30

Keynote address:

Chandran Nair (Global Institute for Tomorrow, Hong-Kong)

15:30-16:00

ROUND TABLE 3: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL RESEARCH, ELECTED ASSEMBLIES, CIVIL SOCIETY

16:00-17:20

Chair: Antony Gooch (Director, Public Affairs and Communications Directorate, OECD)

Serge Allegrezza (Vice President, Conseil économique et social, Luxembourg)

Mike Salvaris (National Committee on the Australian National Development Index, Australia)

Amitabh Behar (National Convenor, Wada Na Todo Abhiyan, India)

Denise Lievesley (European Statistics Advisory Committee)

Charles Seaford (New Economics Foundation, United Kingdom)

Zahid Hai (Director of Strategy, Sodexo India)

General discussion and conclusions by Chair

18:00-

Cultural evening with gala dinner at Kingdom of Dreams