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World Bank Headquarters
1818 H St. NW, Washington, DC
DAY 1 – Wednesday, February 11, 2015
7:30 - 8:45 am - REGISTRATION and BREAKFAST (Main Lobby)
Redefining Fragility to End Poverty
Art Exhibition (Ongoing)
The World Bank Art Program in partnership with the Fragility, Conflict and Violence Cross-cutting Solutions Area
(CCSA) of the World Bank Group is hosting an exhibition on the many faces and facets of conflict and violence.
This exhibit is part of the Fragility, Conflict and Violence Forum 2015. For nearly two decades, the Art Program
has supported the World Bank’s mission to fight extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity worldwide by
providing a voice to its member countries through their most sensitive social barometers: their artists.
9:00 - 10:00 am - OPENING SESSION: THE POLITICS OF PEACE BUILDING: LESSONS FROM PROMOTING SHARED
SOCIETIES (Joint event with Club de Madrid)
Opening Remarks:
- Betty Bigombe, Senior Director, Fragility, Conflict and Violence-Cross Cutting Solutions Area, World Bank
Group
Featuring:
- President Tarja Halonen, President of Finland (2000-2012)
- Abdurrahim El-Keib, Prime Minister of Libya (2011-2012)
- Oscar Fernandez-Taranco, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support, United Nations
- Makhtar Diop, Vice President, Africa, World Bank Group
Moderator:
- Vasu Gounden, Founder and Executive Director, African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of
Disputes (ACCORD)
10:00 - 11:30 am - High risk, high reward: Practical learning and innovation from trust funds in FCV
In some of the harshest FCV environments, donors and governments look to the World Bank to administer
programs through multi-donor trust funds (MDTFs). With MDTF financing almost on par with IDA, trust funds
represent a major part of the way the World Bank does business in FCV. They also represent a source of
innovation and lessons for increasing effectiveness in FCV. Led by the World Bank’s Afghanistan Reconstruction
Trust Fund (ARTF), which to date has channeled over $7 billion, this session highlights the latest innovations and
lessons applicable to other FCV areas and beyond. It brings together operations from some of the most difficult
environments, including Afghanistan, Somalia and northwest Pakistan.
Speakers:
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- Ditte Fallesen, Senior Operations Officer, Afghanistan Country Management Unit, World Bank Group
- Nicholas Marwell, Operations Officer, Somalia Multi-Partner Fund, World Bank Group
- Mehreen Saeed, Communications Officer, Pakistan Multi-Donor Trust Fund, World Bank Group
Moderator:
- Josef Leitmann, Lead Disaster Risk Management Specialist, Urban, Rural and Social Development
Department-Global Practice, World Bank Group
11:30 am - 1:00 pm - Third Party Monitoring: Strengthening the World Bank’s oversight and accountability in a
challenging security context
Third party monitoring (TPM) plays a critical role in managing the World Bank’s US$1.8 billion portfolio (IDA and
ARTF) in Afghanistan. In a context characterized by challenging security, remote areas, low capacity and weak
governance structures, TPM allows the World Bank to access data from all over the country, benefitting
monitoring of both quality of infrastructure, output/outcome results and project effectiveness.
Speakers:
- Naila Ahmed, Rural Development Specialist, Urban, Rural, and Social Development Department-Global
Practice, World Bank Group
- Samantha De Silva, Senior Social Protection Specialist, Education Department-Global Practice, World
Bank Group
- Ajmal Askerzoy, Operations Officer, Transport and ICT Department-Global Practice, World Bank Group
- Mohammad Yasin Noori, Social Development Specialist, Urban, Rural, and Social Development
Department-Global Practice, World Bank Group
- Ditte Fallesen, Senior Operations Officer, Afghanistan Country Management Unit, World Bank Group
Moderator:
- Hassan Zaman, Senior Adviser, Office of the Vice President for South Asia, World Bank Group
10:00 am - 12:00 pm (noon) - Decentralized governance as a catalyst for peace
Decentralization’s capacity to mitigate and solve conflict has been subject to heavy debates in recent years. In
some cases decentralization seems to fuel existing conflicts or trigger new ones, whereas in other cases it has
contributed to successfully ending conflict. This panel session will bring together thought leaders for a debate
on the current trends and merits of decentralized governance as a positive factor in peace processes and efforts
to bring about lasting solutions to conflict.
Speakers:
- Luisito Montalbo, Undersecretary, Executive Director, Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace
Process, Office of the President of the Philippines
- Luka Biong Deng, Director, Centre for Peace and Development Studies, University of Juba, and Fellow,
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University
- Balakrishna Menon Parameswaran, Program Leader Djibouti, Egypt, and Yemen Country Units, World
Bank Group
Moderator:
- Guenter Heidenhof, Practice Manager, Governance Global Practice, World Bank Group
10:00 - 11:30 am - Developing a conflict-sensitive strategy and portfolio: Lessons from the Kyrgyz Republic
The approaches integrated into the Kyrgyz Republic strategies and operations since its 2010 conflict provide an
excellent case from which to draw lessons on a portfolio and CMU-wide approach to conflict sensitivity. The case
also provides a robust example of collaboration between conflict specialists in social development, country
management, and different task teams in integrating conflict sensitivity into the overall work program of the
World Bank in a country context. This practitioner’s clinic will present lessons learned from the Kyrgyz case,
undertake a simulation exercise to show how a Conflict Filter approach can be applied to an operation, and
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provide an opportunity for facilitated small-group discussions on how the Kyrgyz experience can be extended to
other country cases with comparable needs.
Speakers:
- Alexander Kremer, Country Manager for Moldova and former Country Manager for the Kyrgyz Republic,
Chisinau (Moldova), World Bank Group
Facilitators:
- Aly Zulficar Rahim, Senior Social Development Specialist and original Task Team Leader (TTL) for the
Kyrgyz Republic Conflict Filter, Urban, Rural and Social Development Department – Global Practice, World
Bank Group
- Asli Gurkan, Social Development Specialist and current TTL for the Kyrgyz Republic Conflict Filter, Urban,
Rural and Social Development Department – Global Practice, World Bank Group
- Monica Stephen, Head of International Institutions, International Alert
Discussant:
- Nikolas Myint, Senior Social Development Specialist (Myanmar), Urban, Rural and Social Development
Department-Global Practice, Yangon (Myanmar), World Bank Group
10:00 - 11:30 am - Using results measurements to enhance the effectiveness and learning of private sector
interventions in FCV
In fragile situations, the threat of resurging conflict, high uncertainty about conditions of doing business, and a
fragile institutional environment make private investment and private sector development (PSD) project
challenging. It is even more challenging in conducting monitoring and evaluation activities in FCV. The objective
of this session will share several IFC initiatives and experience in applying various result measurements
approaches that help the institution and projects improve the design, effectiveness and learning of PSD
interventions in FCV. It also aims to serve a platform for discussion and debate on the potential contribution of
the PSD interventions to the peace and stability.
Speakers:
- Luba Shara, Senior Results Measurement Specialist, Global Economy & Strategy, Development Impact
Department-Advisory Services, Johannesburg (South Africa), International Finance Corporation, World
Bank Group
- Chaoying Liu, Results Measurement Specialist, Global Economy & Strategy, Development Impact
Department-Advisory Services, International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group
Moderator:
- Toshiya Masuoka, Director, Global Economy & Strategy, Development Impact Department-Advisory
Services, International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group
10:00 - 11:30 am - New approaches to justice in FCV
New approaches to promoting institutions that deliver justice in FCV have important implications for World Bank
operations. These approaches grapple with the political and social context that shapes the delivery of justice. It
calls for an understanding of justice that goes beyond justice sector institutions, to a broader set of sectors and
public authorities that more directly shape citizen experiences of grievance and justice. Thus, interventions on
land, extractives, service delivery, public spending, infrastructure etc., can be crucial vehicles to promoting
institutions that produce just outcomes. Implications for justice sector work are explored through case examples
of Somalia, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Nigeria, and Liberia.
Speakers:
- Gerald Gahima, Judge, War Crimes Chamber, Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Nigel Roberts, International Development Expert
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Katy Thompson, Policy Advisor, Rule of Law, Justice, and Security, United Nations Development
Programme
- Deborah Hannah Isser, Senior Governance Specialist, Governance Department-Global Practice, World
Bank Group
Moderator:
- Rachel Kleinfeld, Senior Associate, Democracy of Rule of Law Program, Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace
10:00 - 11:30 am - More than the sum of the parts: The security-development nexus
As leaders, practitioners and analysts take stock of past successes and failures in post-conflict re-engagement,
mutual reinforcement across the four main communities of practice - diplomacy, security, relief and development
- is consistently identified as critical to success in peace consolidation and recovery. Experience shows that in the
absence of deterrence against hostile elements, a credible peace agreement can rarely be forged. A viable peace
agreement rarely holds, absent a credible humanitarian relief effort restoring basic human dignity. Finally, gains
from an effective security, diplomatic and humanitarian effort can be reversed, plunging society back into conflict,
if true development does not follow, i.e., reconstruction (physical and institutional) towards shared growth, better
economic prospects. Against this background, the panel session will focus specifically on the dynamics that link
security and development in conflict and post-conflict settings, drawing on recent experience. The ultimate
objective of the session is to engage Bank staff operating in FCS on the topic of the nexus between security and
development, drawing on recent examples and reinforcing the need to reflect that nexus in the conception,
design and planning of the Bank’s future post-conflict re-engagement strategies at the institutional and country
levels.
Moderator:
- Luigi Giovine, Lead Operations Officer, Fragility, Conflict and Violence-Cross Cutting Solutions Area,
World Bank Group
Speakers:
- Jordan Ryan, former Assistant Secretary General, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General,
Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator, United Nations Development Programme, United
Nations Mission in Liberia
- Burcu San, Head of Operational Preparedness Operations Division, International Staff, North Atlantic
Treaty Organization Headquarters
- Michael Miller, European External Action Service, Deputy Division Head, Conflict Prevention, Peace
Building and Mediation Instruments, European Union
- Brigadier Flemming Kent Vesterby Agerskov, Denmark’s Army, Director Combined Joint Interagency Task
Force-Shafafiyat, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
11:00 am - 12:00 pm – The Sahara: Key to the stability and development of Northern Africa and the Sahel
A cross-regional and cross-sectorial exchange that focuses on the linkages between security, governance and
development in the Sahara, articulating the dynamics that are leading to increased instability (armed violence
and trafficking), describing the opportunities that can be capitalized upon to develop operational initiatives
(trade, extractives and pastoralism), and identifying areas where further research is needed.
Speakers:
- Mark Shaw, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime/UCT
- Yvan Guichaoua, Lecturer in Politics and International Development, School of International
Development, University of East Anglia
- Jeremy Swift, Pastoral Development Specialist and former Fellow, Institute of Development Studies,
University of Sussex
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Catalina Quintero, Conflict and Fragility Specialist, Fragility, Conflict and Violence-Cross Cutting Solutions
Area, World Bank Group
- Taies Nezam, Consultant, Fragility, Conflict and Violence-Cross Cutting Solutions Area, World Bank Group
Moderator:
- Alexandre Marc, Chief Technical Specialist, Fragility, Conflict and Violence-Cross Cutting Solutions Area,
World Bank Group
12:00 (noon) - 1:00 pm - LUNCH
Redefining Fragility to End Poverty
12:10 - 12:45 pm - Art Exhibition Walking Tour, Meeting Point: MC Information Desk
Join World Bank curator Marina Galvani in a walking tour and conversation which explores a bold, poignant and
poetic selection of artwork by artists of fragile states addressing the rampant violence, devastating conflict and
ravaging instability of their societies.
1:00 - 4:00 pm – Transitions out of conflict and “inclusive enough” political settlements: emerging lessons and
role of the World Bank
The World Bank Group is increasingly requested to complement the role and expertise provided by other
development actors in the context of political transitions in the aftermath of conflict. While the World Bank has
a long history of providing technical assistance and advice in these contexts, the engagements have been ‘under
the radar’ and provided limited opportunity for learning lessons over time, and thus no coherent strategy in
conceptualizing and engaging in political transitions has emerged. Based on increasing demand by clients and
country teams, this mini-conference will bring together experts from the World Bank, UN, the Berghof
Foundation, USIP and other external partners to create a platform to exchange knowledge and experience. The
session also aims to ‘kick-start’ a conversation between World Bank among those UN actors with the principal
mandate to engage on overtly political processes, defining areas of comparative advantage, and developing
modalities for co-operation, especially whereby the Bank can mobilize required assistance in areas where it has
significant technical expertise.
Speakers:
- Dr. Véronique Dudouet, Programme Director, Berghof Foundation
- Levent Bilman, Director, Policy Mediation Division, Department of Political Affairs, United Nations
- Guenther Heidenhof, Practice Manager, Governance Global Practice, World Bank Group
- Nikolas Myint, Senior Social Development Specialist, Urban, Rural and Social Development DepartmentGlobal Practice, Myanmar, World Bank Group
- Matthew Stephens, Senior Social Development Specialist, Urban, Rural and Social Development
Department-Global Practice, Philippines, World Bank Group
- Sam Chittick, Advisor, World Bank-United Nations Facility for Advisory Services for Transition Capacities
(Southern Philippines)
Moderator:
- Nigel Roberts, Co-Director of the WDR 2011 on Conflict, Violence, and Development, and former World
Bank Country Director
1:30 – 3:30 pm - Going global: Collaborative solutions to reduce interpersonal violence
The Violence Prevention Global Beam (VPGB), coordinated by the Global Practice for Social, Urban and Rural
Development (GPSURR) will host a knowledge fair with activities across the World Bank that incorporate violence
prevention. The structure of this session is designed to promote an environment for networking across the World
Bank and to facilitate conversations on opportunities for collaboration. The focus is on interpersonal violence
including its relationship to self-inflicted and collected violence. The VPGB will showcase their platform that
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promotes and facilitates World Bank-wide collaborations and synergies, and works to expand the investment
portfolio on violence prevention. The Knowledge Fair will be open all three days of the FCV Forum.
Presenters from the Bank’s Global Practices, Cross-Cutting Solutions Areas and RESOL-V will make informal
presentations on: (a) how crime and violence hinders the achievement of important sector outcomes, (b) one
concrete solution that the sector is testing, and (c) one other GP with which it needs to collaborate to advance
its agenda.
* The Beam will support teams in the preparations of their posters. Identifying opportunities for collaborative
solutions, participants will move around the room to view posters and label those GP posters that they envision
working with.
Speakers:
- Rodrigo Guerrero Velasco, Mayor of Cali, Colombia
- Maninder S. Gill, Director, Urban, Rural and Social Development Department-Global Practice, World Bank
Group
- Hassane Cisse, Director, Governance Department-Global Practice, World Bank Group
Moderator:
- Rodrigo Serrano-Berthet, Lead Social Development Specialist, Urban, Rural and Social Development
Department-Global Practice, World Bank Group
Closing remarks:
- Alexandre Marc, Chief Technical Specialist, Fragility, Conflict and Violence-Cross Cutting Solutions Area,
World Bank Group
1:00 - 3:00 pm - Data revolutions for better governance of extractive industries in FCV
One of the main challenges to good governance of natural resources is a fundamental lack of access to
information as well as limited civil society capacity to utilize data to better monitor extractive industry operations.
To address these challenges, governments are starting to take pioneering steps and a number of important “data
revolutions” are underway. These initiatives seek to improve the generation of accurate and publicly accessible
information on extractive industries, as well as provide an evidence-base for community-level monitoring of
extractive industry operations. The panel will discuss the potential, as well as limitations, of harnessing data for
better extractives outcomes, drawing on early learnings from ongoing data-driven efforts, as well as experiences
of community monitoring in DRC, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
Opening remarks:
- Emilia Pires, Minister of Finance and Special Envoy to the g7+, Timor-Leste
Speakers:
- Habib Ur Rehman Mayar, Senior Policy Specialist, g7+
- Dag Seierstad, Senior Expert on Extractive Industries, United Nations Environment Programme PostConflict and Disaster Management Branch, co-Coordinator of MAP-EI partnership
- Eddie Rich, Deputy Head and Regional Director for Africa and the Middle East, Extractive Industries
Transparency Initiative (EITI)
- Jim Cust, Head of Data and Analysis, Natural Resources Governance Institute/CODEX Initiative
- Joy Saunders, Chief Executive Officer, Integrity Action
- Michael Stanley, Lead Mining Specialist, Energy and Extractives Department-Global Practice, World Bank
Group
Moderator:
- Robert Hunja, Practice Manager, Governance Global Practice, World Bank Group
1:00 - 4:00 pm - Alternatives to camps: Bringing a development response to forced displacement
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This session aims to raise awareness of the need for a development response to the challenges of forced
displacement and of the role the World Bank is playing in providing support to the displaced. The session will
also: (i) raise awareness of UNHCR’s policy on ‘Alternatives to Camps’ with discussion of why a camp environment
can be detrimental for refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) and why stakeholders are increasingly
searching for alternatives, (ii) give the economic case for why alternatives to camps may have better rates of
return, (iii) give practical examples of World Bank projects in support of refugees and IDPs that provide alternative
models of support other than camps.
Speakers:
- Steven Corliss, Director of the Division of Program Support & Management, the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees
- Apollo Kazungu, Commissioner, Department of Refugees, Government of Uganda
- Sabir Ahmadov, Deputy Director, Azerbaijan Social Fund for the Development of Internally Displaced
Persons/ Azerbaijan IDP Living Standards and Livelihoods Project
- Namig Ibrahimov, Manager for Livelihoods, Azerbaijan Social Fund for the Development of Internally
Displaced Persons/ Azerbaijan IDP Living Standards and Livelihoods Project
- Niels V. Harild, Lead Social Development Specialist, Global Program on Forced Displacement, Fragility,
Conflict and Violence-Cross Cutting Solutions Area, World Bank Group
- Aly Zulficar Rahim, Senior Social Development Specialist and Task Team Leader, Azerbaijan IDP Living
Standards and Livelihoods Project, Urban, Rural and Social Development Department-Global Practice,
World Bank Group
- Ximena Vanessa Del Carpio, Senior Economist, Social Protection and Labor Department, World Bank
Group
- Zeynep Durnev Darendeliler, Social Development Specialist, Urban, Rural and Social Development
Department-Global Practice, World Bank Group
Moderator:
- Colin Bruce, Director, Africa Regional Integration, World Bank Group
1:00 - 2:30 pm - Evidence 4 Peace: Leveraging impact evaluation tools for better results in FCV contexts
Fragile and conflict affected situations face daunting developmental challenges, for which solutions remain
elusive. While there is consensus that policy decisions informed by evidence can help to achieve better results
on the ground, the evidence base for development interventions designed to address FCV has been quite thin.
To begin to address this gap, the World Bank’s FCV Group and the Development Impact Evaluation initiative
(DIME), together with external partners International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) and Innovations for
Poverty Action (IPA) recently launched the Evidence 4 Peace (E4P) program with the overall goal of assessing
evidence gaps in FCV response, generating improved knowledge about development effectiveness and
understanding of how to best support FCV clients in delivering the results so critically needed for citizens to gain
confidence in the path out of conflict.
Speakers:
- Annette N. Brown, Deputy Director, Advancement and Impact Evaluation Services, International Initiative
for Impact Evaluation
- Macartan Humphreys, Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University
- Chris Blattman, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Columbia University
- Marie Gaarder, Manager, Evaluation, Public Sector, World Bank Group
- Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Senior Principal Specialist, Jobs-Cross Cutting Solutions Area, World Bank
Group
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Eric Mvukiyehe, Economist, Development Economics-Development Impact Evaluation Unit, World Bank
Group
- Marcus E. Holmlund, Economist, Development Economics-Development Impact Evaluation Unit, World
Bank, Group
Moderator:
- Arianna Legovini, Adviser, Development Economics-Development Impact Evaluation, World Bank Group
1:00 - 2:30 pm - Responding to the challenge of fragility and security in West Africa
Since independence, the West Africa sub region has been the arena for various large-scale conflicts and civil
wars, as well as low-intensity conflicts. The turn of the millennium witnessed the recession of large-scale and
conventional conflict, but ushered in emerging threats. The specter of religious extremism, maritime piracy, and
narcotics trafficking threatens to undermine recent progress. This session will examine the challenges of fragility
and security in West Africa, along with the factors of resilience. It will investigate key drivers of conflict and
violence while exploring how the sub region has become a pioneer on the continent in addressing regional
challenges. It will also identify key lessons in the dynamics of resilience against political violence and civil war,
drawn from countries such as Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Cote d’Ivoire.
Speakers:
- Olivier Ray, Head of Fragile States Unit, Agence Française de Développement
- Professor Seth Kaplan, Professorial Lecturer at SAIS, Johns Hopkins
- Professor Jimmy D. Kandeh, Department of Political Science, University of Richmond
- Alexandre Marc, Chief Technical Specialist, Fragility, Conflict and Violence-Cross Cutting Solutions Area,
World Bank Group
Moderator:
Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Chief Economist, Africa Region, World Bank Group
2:30 - 4:00 pm - How can we do more good? Rethinking the logic of humanitarian and development inventions
in FCV: Lessons from the DRC (Joint event with the Great Lakes Policy Forum)
Twenty years ago, the now-Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) received massive influxes of refugees from
neighboring Rwanda, triggering a state collapse that claimed millions of lives. The international community has
invested billions of dollars addressing recurrent humanitarian needs in the east of the country, and yet, fragility
and crisis persist. Join a high-level discussion on new field research findings on the gaps and opportunities in the
humanitarian response, and a discussion on what lessons donors, governments, and NGOs can draw in order to
“do more good” and develop effective strategies to end the cycle of fragility. Operating since 1995, the Great
Lakes Policy Forum aims to keep the Great Lakes on the agenda of policy makers and provides a platform where
Government, NGOs, academics, and the Diaspora come together to search cooperatively for solutions to the
region’s conflicts. The Forum’s principals are: Amnesty International USA, Africa Studies Program (Council on
Foreign Relations), Nitze School of Advanced International Studies-Johns Hopkins University, Refugees
International, Search for Common Ground, United States Institute of Peace, Africa Program, Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars, and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Center for Conflict Analysis and
Prevention.
Opening remarks:
- Ahmadou Moustapha Ndiaye, Country Director for the Democratic Republic of Congo and Republic of
Congo, World Bank Group (TBC)
Speakers:
- Ambassador (ret.) George Moose, Vice Chairman of the United States Institute of Peace, and former
Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (1993-1997), Department of State, United States
- Shamil Idriss, President and Chief Executive Officer, Search for Common Ground
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Andrea Koppel, Vice President of Global Engagement and Policy, Mercy Corps
Jonathan Papoulidis, Executive Advisor on Fragile States, World Vision and Co-Chair of the Conflict and
Fragility Working Group (co-convened by InterAction and the Alliance for Peacebuilding)
Moderator:
- Mark L. Schneider, Senior Vice President, International Crisis Group
2:30 - 4:00 pm - Public-private partnerships in FCV: Experience from World Bank Group projects
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) in FCV countries can help delivery basic infrastructure and services and lay the
foundations for economic development. The World Bank Group helps broker such partnerships. As part of these
efforts, IFC’s Public-Private Partnerships Transaction Advisory Department has advised governments worldwide
on designing and implementing PPP projects in a variety of sectors and has worked on PPPs in FCV countries,
including Afghanistan, Haiti, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Timor-Leste. This event will provide a venue to showcase
the successes and challenges of some of these projects, share clients’ experiences; and highlight what conditions
are required for PPPs to succeed in fragile environments.
Speakers:
- Adriana de Aguinaga de Vellutini, Manager, Public Private Partnerships-Transaction Advisory Services,
International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group
- Maria Isabel Marques De Sa, Chief Investment Officer, Public Private Partnerships-Transaction Advisory
Services, International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group
Moderator:
- Laurence Carter, Senior Director, Public Private Partnerships-Transaction Advisory Services, International
Finance Corporation, World Bank Group
2:30 - 4:00 pm - The role of payment systems in FCV countries in both normal and emergency situations
Payment and settlement systems are central to the smooth functioning of the financial system and the overall
economy. Efficient payment systems support financial stability, promote economic and financial development,
and are a critical enabler of financial access. In the context of fragile and conflict affected situations, payment
system development becomes all the more critical to rebuilding the financial system. However, fragile countries
often lack both centralized payments infrastructure and central bank empowerment and capacity. This panel will
delve into examples of successful payment system intervention in fragile and conflict-affected situations and
distill best practices.
Speakers:
- Dr. Jihad AlWazir, Governor, Palestine Monetary Authority
- Fabiola Herrera, Director, Payment Systems Department, Central Bank of the Dominican Republic
- Massimo Cirasino, Practice Manager Financial Infrastructure and Access & Head, Payment Systems
Development Group, Finance and Markets-Global Practice, World Bank Group
Moderator:
- Gloria M. Grandolini, Senior Director, Finance and Markets-Global Practice, World Bank Group
4:00 - 6:00 pm VIRUNGA (Movie screening + discussion)
Virunga is an Oscar-nominated 2014 documentary film directed by Orlando von Einsiedel. "Virunga" focuses on
the conservation work of rangers within Virunga National Park, and the activity of a British company, Soco
International, which began exploring for oil within the UNESCO World Heritage site in April 2014. The
documentary tells the story of four characters fighting to protect Virunga National Park in the Democratic
Republic of Congo, home to the world's last mountain gorillas, against war, poaching, and the threat of oil
exploration.
Introduction:
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Betty Bigombe, Senior Director, Fragility, Conflict and Violence-Cross Cutting Solutions Area, World Bank
Group
Moderator (Q&A Session):
- Paula Caballero, Senior Director, Environment and Natural Resources Department-Global Practice, World
Bank Group
6:00 - 6:45 pm RECEPTION (Atrium)
DAY 2 – Thursday, February 12, 2015
8:00 - 8:45 am - REGISTRATION and BREAKFAST (Main Lobby)
9:00 - 10:30 am - “Was Ebola a disease waiting to happen?”: Strengthening health systems in FCV areas to avert
catastrophic epidemics
Building robust health systems in any context is a challenge. In fragile environments, however, this challenge is
especially difficult: limited resources, weak governance, poor to non-existent infrastructure, insecurity and
instability, all converge to create tremendous barriers that can hamper the delivery of basic health services. These
difficulties have become very apparent in the quest to manage and stop the spread of Ebola. This panel discussion
will delve into the practical issues that have hindered effective health system strengthening in post-conflict states.
It will explore how these challenges can be resolved as well as the investments that will be needed to build
resilient health systems that are capable of sustaining core services and can withstand future crises.
Opening remarks:
- Keith E. Hansen, Vice President, Global Practice Cross-Cutting Solutions Area, World Bank Group
Speakers:
- Hon. Tolbert G. Nyenswah, Assistant Minister of Health, Bureau of Preventive Services, Ministry of Health
and Social Welfare of Liberia
- Dr. David Nabarro, United Nations Secretary-General´s Special Envoy on Ebola (via videoconference)
- Dr. Edward Kelley, Director, Service Delivery and Safety Department, World Health Organization
Moderator:
- Phillip Jeremy Hay, Manager, Africa-External Communications, World Bank Group
9:00 - 11:00 am - Rebuilding public services in post-conflict countries: How to walk the line between building and
bypassing the State?
In post-conflict settings, short-term demands typically trump the long-term objective of building a capable public
service. To ensure peace and stabilize fragile political coalitions, governments are often obligated to hand out
public jobs and better pay to constituents, regardless of merit. Donor-financed projects relying on highly paid
staff, rather than on public servants, often become the primary vehicle to address citizens’ immediate service
delivery needs. In view of these trade-offs, this panel will discuss the question how to find pragmatic compromises
between building and bypassing the state. The discussion will be informed by the policy lessons from a new
comparative study on how to (re)build public services in post-conflict countries.
Speakers:
- William Byrd, Senior Expert-Afghanistan, United States Institute of Peace
- Vivek Srivastava, Lead Public Sector Development Specialist, Governance Department-Global Practice,
World Bank Group
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Jurgen Rene Blum, Public Sector Management Specialist, Governance Department-Global Practice, World
Bank Group
- Verena Maria Fritz, Senior Public Sector Specialist, Governance Department-Global Practice, World Bank
Group
- Satyendra Prasad, Senior Governance Specialist, Governance Department-Global Practice, World Bank
Group
- Bella Bird, Country Director, South Sudan and Somalia, World Bank Group
- Stephen N. Ndegwa, Country Manager, Kabul (Afghanistan), World Bank Group
Moderator:
- Joel Hellman, Chief Institutional Economist, Governance Department-Global Practice, World Bank Group
9:00 am - 12:30 pm - Building resilience in FCV: Safety nets and jobs
Social protection and labor policies as well as interventions are among the main instruments for building
resilience and for protecting the poor in FCV. They help prevent common damaging coping strategies, which
affected populations resort to in time of stress. Well targeted safety nets including cash transfers, school feeding
and cash-for-work programs are most valuable where the population has been hit hard by domestic and
International – including violent conflicts, natural disasters, or extended periods of political and social instability.
During difficult times, SPL interventions promote income earning opportunities, including jobs. The objectives of
the workshop are a) to provide an overview on the main issues and strategies of Social Protection and Labor
priorities in FCV states; b) to design selected Safety-nets-country-responses in specific FCV contexts, c) present
and discuss country-level analytical work that tests new approaches for data collection on jobs, including recent
work in Cote d’Ivoire and Sierra Leone funded by the Korea Trust Fund for Economic and Peace-Building
Transitions, and d) discuss opportunities and constraints to cash transfers in FCV.
Speakers:
- Rachel Slater, SLRC Project Research Director, ODI (by videoconference)
- Arup Banerji, Senior Director, Social Protection and Labor, World Bank Group
- Nigel Twose, Senior Director, Jobs, CCSA, World Bank Group
- Mirey Ovadiya, SPL Senior Specialist, World Bank Group
- Yasser El-Gammal, SPL Practice Manager, World Bank Group
- Ugo Gentilini, SPL Senior Economist, World Bank Group
- Nicola Pontara, Head of South Sudan Country Office and Program Leader, World Bank (by
videoconference)
- Patrick Premand, SPL Senior Economist, World Bank Group
- Nina Rosas Raffo, SPL Specialist, World Bank Group
- Kristen Himelein, Senior Economist, Poverty, World Bank Group
- Utz Pape, Economist, Poverty, World Bank Group
Moderators:
- Giuseppe Zampaglione, SPL Lead Social Protection Specialist, World Bank Group
- Dena Ringold, SPL Lead Economist, World Bank Group
Discussants:
- Ethan B. Kapstein, Senior Advisor, US Institute of Peace
Keynote Speaker:
- Christopher Blattman, Associate Professor, Columbia University
9:00-10:30 am - Working meeting of the Community of Practice for Land and Fragile, Conflict and Violence
Situations
This session is open to all those engaged with analytic work and projects supporting land rights and
administration in FCV. You are invited to come and meet each other, share experiences, compare projects and
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discuss how the Community of Practice can best serve your needs and contribute to improved practice in this
sector.
Panelists:
- Deborah Isser, Senior Counsel, World Bank Group
- Matt Stephens, Senior Social Development Specialist, World Bank Group
- Hugo de Vries, Consultant, World Bank Group
Moderators:
- Sandra Kdolsky, Social Development Specialist, World Bank Group
- Mika-Petteri Törhönen, Senior Land Policy Specialist, World Bank Group
9:00 - 10:30 am - Challenges of international standards for corporate responsibility in FCV (Joint event with
OXFAM Novib)
Over the last 15 years, a plethora of international standards on corporate responsibility have emerged to address
negative effects of businesses. Some of these standards are generic; other standards have a special focus on FCV.
However, it is often not clear to companies which guidelines to use and how to apply them, and it is difficult for
governments and civil society organizations to hold companies accountable as most of the international
guidelines do not have accountability or complaint mechanisms. A panel will discuss the impact of these
guidelines and the actions that are needed to make these guidelines really work and reach scale.
Speakers:
- Fia van der Klugt, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark
- Mark van Dorp, Researcher and Author of Report, Center for Research on Multinational Corporations
(SOMO)
- Farouk Ismail Ukach, South Sudan Law Society
- Lauren Berry, Director Social Performance, Kosmos Energy
- Morgan J. Landy, Director, Transactional Risk Solutions, International Finance Corporation, World Bank
Group
Moderator:
- Joyce Kortlandt, OXFAM Novib
10:30 am - 12:00 pm (noon) – From Fragile States to States of Fragility – A pre-view of the OECD’s 2015 report
While in the MDG era the focus was on progress in developing countries, the post-2015 development agenda
will be universal. What does that mean for fragility? The OECD’s report States of Fragility 2015 – Meeting post2015 Ambitions argues in favour of proposed SDG 16 and seeks to present a new understanding of fragility
“beyond fragile states”. It assesses fragility as an issue of universal character that can affect all countries, not only
developing ones traditionally considered “fragile” or “conflict-affected”. To do so, it takes indicators related to
five SDG targets: institutions, violence, economic foundations, and capacity to adapt to shocks and disasters. It
applies them to all countries worldwide, and identifies the 50 most vulnerable ones in all five dimensions. The
group of countries most challenged on all five fronts differs little from the traditional list of fragile states and
economies. But several middle-income countries with disproportionately high levels of crime-related violence,
sub-national conflict or poor access to justice move into the spotlight. Making headway on the SDG targets will
require building a new portfolio of tools and interventions, and a new understanding of the international
community’s role in assisting this process.
Speakers:
- Jolanda Profos, Peace and Conflict Adviser, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- Sarah Hearn, Associate Director and Senior Fellow, CIC/NYU
- Robert Parker, Director of Policy and Communications, Saferworld
- Gary Milante, Director of Security and Development Programme, SIPRI
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Moderator:
- Alexandre Marc, Chief Technical Specialist, Fragility, Conflict and Violence Cross-cutting Solutions Area,
World Bank Group
11:00 am - 12:30 pm – Using micro-level data on welfare and behavior for policy making in FCV
The last few years have seen an explosion of data, including satellite crop cover, weather, night time lighting,
indices of political freedom, geocoded conflict data, and detailed individual, household and firm level data. Even
in areas affected by violent conflict such data are often available or can be collected. The potential of these data
to study and understand human behavior is huge. But how can project managers and policy makers in conflict
affected settings use such information? The clinic will give an overview of current research in the micro-level
analysis of welfare and behavior in conflict settings and discuss pitfalls, challenges and opportunities of the use
of data for economic and policy purposes.
Speakers:
- Philip Verwimp, Professor, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels
- Tilman Brück, Director, International Security and Development Center, Berlin
- Patricia Justino, Professor, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex
Moderator:
- Marcelo M. Giugale, Senior Director, Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management-Global Practice, World
Bank Group
11:30 am - 12:30 pm - Practitioners for youth in peace building
A panel discussion to launch the joint UN-Habitat and World Bank Global Assessment of the Role of Youth as
Peace Builders will feature testimonials from peace activists and mediators in conflict situations. Several key issues
related to the role of youth in peace building will be addressed. These include how can youth contribute to peace
building, what actions are being taken in post-conflict contexts so that youth break the cycle of violence, lessons
learned from successfully empowering young people as peace builders, the structures that can be put in place
for youth to contribute to reconstruction and peace building, and how effective programs can be designed to
strengthen the role of youth as peace builders.
Speakers:
- Oyebanji Oyeyinka, Chief Scientific Officer, UN-Habitat
- Joao Felipe Scarpelini, Youth Activist, Brazil
- Aline Rahbany, Youth Activist, Lebanon
Moderator:
- Ferid Belhaj, Country Director, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon, World Bank Group
Welcome Remarks:
- Betty Bigombe, Senior Director, Fragility, Conflict and Violence-Cross Cutting Solutions Area, World Bank
Group
12:30 - 2:00 pm - PLENARY SESSION: YOUTH VOICES AND RESILIENCE IN FCV: STORIES FROM FERGUSON TO
UKRAINE UNPLUGGED (Lunch included from 12:30 – 1:00 pm)
Opening remarks:
- Keith Hansen, Vice President, Global Practice Cross-Cutting Solutions, World Bank Group
Speakers:
- Amira Yahyaoui, Tunisian Human Rights Advocate, President and Founder, Al Bawsala, and 2014 Laureate
for the Chirac Prize for Conflict Prevention
- Emmanuel Jal, former Child Soldier (South Sudan), Political Activist, and Musician
- Rasheen Aldridge, Youth Representative for President Obama’s Ferguson Commission
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-
Mouaz Moustafa, Syrian Activist and Member of the Government Relations Committee for the Coalition
for a Democratic Syria (CDS)
- Razan Shalab Al-Sham, Field Director, Syrian Emergency Task Force
- Kurtmolla Abdulganiyev, Programme Analyst, United Nations Development Programme in Ukraine
- Jesica Zermeño Nuñez, Reporter and Producer, Univision Network (Mexico Bureau)
Moderator:
- Ozong Agborsangaya-Fiteu, Senior Operations Officer, Fragility, Conflict and Violence-Cross Cutting
Solutions Area, World Bank Group
2:00 - 5:00 pm - Young minds: Addressing stress and adversity in youth programming in FCV
Stress and adversity exert strong influences on behavior. For youth, stress and adversity can complicate transitions
to adulthood. What does this mean for work with youth in FCV? This session will explore these dynamics via a
discussion of the findings of the World Development Report 2015 on Mind, Society and Behavior for FCV, and a
workshop focused on addressing stress and adversity in youth programming in FCV. Speakers will include
policymakers and technical experts in youth programming in FCV.
Speakers:
- Varun Gauri, Director of WDR 2015
- Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, Sokoto Diocese, Nigeria
- Jimmie Briggs, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Man Up Campaign
- Daisuke Funai, Technical Advisor, Youth and Livelihoods, International Rescue Committee
- Peter Darvas, Senior Education Economist, Adolescent Girls Initiative (AGI)
- Christopher MacLay, Mercy Corps Program Manager-PROSPECTS (Promoting Sustainable Partnerships
for Economic Transformation), Liberia
- Chris Blattman, Associate Professor, Political Science & International Public Affairs, Columbia University
Moderator:
- Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez, Senior Director, Global Practice on Social, Urban, Rural, and Resilience, World Bank
2:00 - 5:00 pm – Addressing Transition, Conflict and Development in the Middle East and North Africa: Challenges
and Opportunities
This mini conference will examine the Middle East & North Africa’s transitional dynamics in light of the region’s
shifting political landscape and drivers of conflict, the challenges they present for long-term stability and
development, and implications for institutions such as the World Bank. A first panel will examine current drivers
of conflict and fragility, including sectarian divisions and ethnic conflicts, social and economic inequalities and
marginalization, and contested transition processes, including their consequences on national development
prospects and regional stability. The second panel will consider how the international development community
has responded, and discuss priorities for strengthening institutional and social resilience against external shocks
in contexts of transition.
Speakers:
- Charlotte Slente, Ambassador, Special Envoy for Fragile States, Government of Denmark
- Tim Williams, Senior Governance Advisor, Middle East and North Africa Department, Department for
International Development, United Kingdom
- Paul Salem, Middle East Institute, United States
- Peter Bartu, University of California (Berkeley)
- Ishac Diwan, Research Affiliate, Middle East Initiative, Harvard University
- Ferid Belhaj, Country Director, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon, World Bank Group
Moderator:
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Maninder Gill, Senior Director, Urban, Rural and Social Development Department-Global Practice, World
Bank Group
- Franck Bousquet, Senior Regional Advisor, Office of the Regional Vice Presidency-Middle East and North
Africa, World Bank
2:00 - 3:30 pm – Financing SME Growth in Fragile and Conflict-affected Countries: A Knowledge-sharing
workshop
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are the engine of job growth in FCV areas, but they face even greater
barriers to success than their counterparts in non-fragile economies. This session will review models used to
provide much-needed financing (often with technical assistance) for SMEs to grow and develop. What are our
definitions of success? What models have seen success along these lines?
Speakers:
- Hugh Scott, Director, The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund
- Simon Bell, Global Lead on SME Finance, World Bank Group
- Florence Boupda, Senior Investment Officer, Financial Institutions Group, International Finance
Corporation, World Bank Group
- Tracy Washington, Program Manager, SME Ventures, International Finance Corporation, World Bank
Group
Discussant:
- Michel Botzung, FCS Manager, Sub-Saharan Africa, International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group
Moderator:
- John Speakman, Lead Private Sector Development Specialist, World Bank Group
2:00 - 3:30 pm - Learning in the face of adversity
Palestinian refugee students attending United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) schools in the West
Bank, Gaza and Jordan are achieving higher-than-average results in international assessments, despite the
challenging and adverse circumstances they live under. The UNRWA Education Program for Palestine Refugees
represents a resilience approach that includes effective classroom practices of teachers, strong school leadership,
assessments and shared accountability for learning, can support adaptability and performance in high-risk
contexts. The panel will discuss the findings and implications of the study of UNRWA schools, as well as contrast
cases of resilience in education in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Speakers:
- Harry Patrinos, Manager, Education Practice, World Bank Group
- Husein Abdul-Hamid, Senior Education Specialist, Education Practice, World Bank Group
- Joel Reyes, Senior Institutional Development Specialist, Education Sector, World Bank Group
- Emanuela Di Gropello, Education Program Leader, Education Practice, World Bank Group
Moderator:
- Claudia Costin, Senior Director, Education Practice, World Bank Group
* The dialogue on cross-group collaboration will include representatives from the FCV CCSA, and the Social, Urban Rural, and Resilience
Group.
2:00 - 3:30 pm - Trust, voice, and incentives for service delivery: Windows of opportunity in transition
Transitions create spaces for institutional innovation and can accelerate reforms toward improving service
delivery. They have the potential to initially increase citizen trust and engagement. But transitions also place
additional demands on service providers as citizens expect to see improvements. Transitions should aim at
creating institutions and accountability mechanisms at the political, administrative and social levels to motivate
providers, public servants, and policymakers to deliver quality services to the poor and other non-privileged
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populations. Success on this front would foster the state’s legitimacy and citizen trust in public institutions. The
session will share recent success stories and discuss emerging innovative approaches and lessons.
Speakers:
- Shantayanan Devarajan, Chief Economist, Middle East and North Africa Region, World Bank Group
- Neil Simon M. Gray, Country Director for Morocco, World Bank Group
- Roberto Adrian Senderowitsch, Program Manager, Governance-Global Partnership for Social
Accountability, World Bank Group
- Michael Woolcock, Lead Social Development Specialist, Development Research Group: Poverty and
Inequality, World Bank Group
- Zahid Hasnain, Senior Public Sector Specialist, Governance Department-Global Practice, and WDR 2016
Co-Director, World Bank Ellen Marie Lust, Professor, Department of Political Science, Yale University, and
Consultant, World Bank Group
Moderator:
- Stella Dawson, Chief Correspondent, Thomson Reuters
3:30 - 5:00 pm - The balancing act between effective service delivery and state building: The case of Afghanistan
Access to basic services in Afghanistan has significantly improved in all sectors. The way in which public services
are delivered, in terms of administrative arrangements vary, both within and between sectors from ‘off budget’
arrangements implemented directly by NGOs and donors to ‘on budget’ flagship national programs. The
different modalities have had their successes and failures and the implications are wide ranging. This presentation
will discuss the contrasting modalities chosen in an FCV environment such as Afghanistan and the decade long
balancing act between effective service provision, capacity development of sub-national staff or structures,
accountability and strengthening sub-national governance.
Speakers:
- Jain Holsheimer, Altai Consulting
Discussants:
- Ladisy Chenguia, Agriculture, World Bank Group
- Samantha de Silva, Education, World Bank Group
- Naila Ahmed, Social/Rural, World Bank Group
Moderator:
- Richard Hogg, Program Leader, Kabul (Afghanistan), World Bank Group
3:30 - 5:00 pm - Amplifying the voice of civil society in the New Deal (Joint event with the Civil Society Platform
for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding)
As the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding (IDPS) enters a critical phase, the Civil Society
Platform for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding (CSPPS) presents its work in support of the implementation of the
New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States and shares key strategic perspectives for the year 2015 and beyond.
Speakers from civil society, government and multilateral New Deal stakeholders will offer perspectives and upto-date reporting about the status of New Deal implementation and elaborate on the role of civil society in that
process. CSPPS as the official forum for coordinated civil society participation in the International Dialogue on
Peacebuilding and Statebuilding (IDPS) aims to develop and strengthen the voice and capacity of civil society in
support of successful New Deal implementation.
Speakers:
- Mustafa Aria, Aid Management Director, Ministry of Finance, Afghanistan (representing the g7+ group
of fragile and conflict-affected states)
- Lancedell Mathews, Director, New African Research and Development Agency (NARDA), Liberia
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Rita Martin Lopidia, Executive Director, EVE Organisation for Women Development, South Sudan
Dr. Tolbert Jallah, Secretary General, Fellowship of Christian Councils and Churches of West Africa
(FECCIWA), Togo
- Anne-Lise Klausen, Head, Partnerships, Fragility, Conflict and Violence Group, World Bank Group
Moderator:
- Melanie Greenberg, CEO, Alliance for Peacebuilding and CSPPS Executive Committee Member
5:00 - 6:30 pm - The Interrupters: Screening and Q and A with Cure Violence
The Interrupters is a 2011 documentary film, produced by Kartemquin Films, that tells the story of three violence
interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed. It examines a
year in which Chicago drew national headlines for violence and murder that plagued the city. The film features
the work of Cure Violence, an international NGO, working on four continents to reduce lethal violence. Cure
Violence has been proven effective at reducing shootings and killings by multiple independent evaluations.
Speakers:
- William D. Euille, Mayor, City of Alexandria
- Gary Slutkin, MD Founder/Executive Director, Cure Violence
- Ricardo (Cobe) Williams, National Community Coordinator & Violence Interrupter, and National Trainer,
Ceasefire [Also featured in the documentary]
Moderator:
- Ede Jorge Ijjasz-Vasquez, Senior Director, Urban, Rural and Social Development-Global Practice, World
Bank Group
DAY 3 – Friday, February 13, 2015
8:00 - 8:45 am - REGISTRATION and BREAKFAST (Main Lobby)
9:00 - 10:00 am - PLENARY SESSION: THE DRIVER OF ECONOMIC GROWTH AND JOB CREATION: WHY THE
PRIVATE SECTOR IS CENTRAL TO THE FCV AGENDA
A thriving private sector is essential to development and stability in fragile and conflict-affected states. The
private sector is recognized as a key driver of economic growth and job creation, as a source of critical good
and services and as an important contributor to poverty reduction and higher living standards for poor people.
This panel discussion will focus on how to maximize the private sector’s potential; it will provide perspectives
from academia, politics, business, and the World Bank Group.
Speakers:
- Daniel Kablan Duncan, Prime Minister, Cote d’Ivoire
- Ed Garcia, President and Managing Director, Firestone Liberia
- Nigel Twose, Senior Director, Jobs, International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group
- Paul Collier, Co-Director, Centre for the Study of African Economies, Professor of Economics and Public
Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, and Professorial Fellow of St. Antony’s College, Oxford
University
Moderator:
- Jean Philippe Prosper, Vice President, Global Client Services, International Finance Corporation, World
Bank Group
10:00 - 11:30 am - Addressing gender-based violence: Scaling up innovations that work
Fragility and armed conflict increase risk of gender-based violence (GBV), which significantly affects survivors’
social status, physical and mental health and livelihoods. Emerging evidence from field-based studies
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demonstrates how to overcome these impacts, including a recent impact evaluation from South Kivu, which is
the foundation for significant scaling-up and replication including under the World Bank’s IDA-funded $107
million Great Lakes Emergency GBV and Women’s Health Project. The panel will present the evidence, discuss
replication models as well as the use of innovative technology to support prosecuting sexual crimes and highlight
the role of the WBG.
Opening remarks:
- Betty Bigombe, Senior Director, Fragility, Conflict and Violence-Cross Cutting Solutions Area, World Bank
Group
Speakers:
- Donald Steinberg, World Learning, former Deputy Administrator, United States Agency for International
Development
- Paul Boulton, Johns Hopkins University (via videoconference)
- Pia Peeters, co-Task Team Leader for the IDA-funded $107 million Great Lakes Emergency SGBV and
Women’s Health Project, World Bank Group
Moderator:
- Ede Jorge Ijjasz-Vasquez, Senior Director, Urban, Rural and Social Development-Global Practice, World
Bank Group
10:00 - 11:30 am - Developing a practical handbook for environmental regulators in situations of fragility, conflict
and violence (FCV)
The Environmental Regulatory Practice Handbook (ERPH) seeks to provide principles, approaches, methods, skills
and experiences to aid regulators to tackle some of the immense challenges that they may face in FCV. ERPH is
an output from a workshop for environmental regulators from over 10 FCV-affected countries (financed by the
Korean Trust Fund-KTF, organized and hosted by the World Bank). The objective of this workshop is to present
an advanced draft of the Handbook, to generate structured discussion among peers to provide feedback on the
content and applicability of the handbook and generate ideas on its wider dissemination.
Speakers:
- Milena Petrova Stefanova, Fragility, Conflict and Violence-Cross Cutting Solutions Area, World Bank
Group
- Ella Victoria Humphry, Consultant, Fragility, Conflict and Violence-Cross Cutting Solutions Area, World
Bank Group
Moderator:
- Wolfhart Pohl, Adviser, Fragility, Conflict and Violence-Cross Cutting Solutions Area, World Bank Group
10:00 - 11:00 am - Private sector development in FCV: The role of public-private and multi-stakeholder dialogue
Private sector development (PSD) plays a crucial role in post-conflict economic development and poverty
alleviation. FCV environments, however, face major challenges, such as difficult access to finance, power and
markets; poor infrastructure; high levels of corruption; and a lack of transparency in the regulatory environment.
Most fragile and post-conflict economies — the majority of which are found in Sub-Saharan Africa — are at the
bottom of the World Bank’s Doing Business rankings. Improving the business environment by easing the
conditions of doing business can bolster formal private-sector activities, state authority and service delivery. In
fragile and post-conflict economies, there is often deep mistrust between the government and the private sector,
resulting from widespread rent-seeking behaviors, cronyism and lack of legitimacy. To overcome these
shortcomings and to strengthen public trust, engaging the private sector in a reform dialogue is essential.
Speakers:
- Mamadou Blondin Beye, Manager, International Government Affairs, Chevron
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Seth Kaplan, Professorial Lecturer in the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns
Hopkins University
- Steve Utterwulghe, Senior Private Sector Development Specialist and Global Lead, Public-Private
Dialogue, Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice, World Bank Group
Moderator:
- Ivan Rossignol, Chief Technical Specialist, Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice, World Bank Group
10:00 am - 12:30 pm - Impact of Agricultural Public Policies on Reduction of Conflicts in Rural Communities
(event with Agence Française de Développement)
In arid area subject to strong environmental constraints accentuated by Climate and Demography, generate
crises if they are not accompanied by investment and public policy. In these areas, we must develop irrigated
agriculture (valleys of the Niger, Senegal, Volta), a green leafy rain-fed agriculture (Guinean savannah) and at the
same time maintain the seasonal mobility of herds of more or less long distances, according to climate variability
(all the Sahel). The nexus "agricultural intensification" / "privatization of the organic matter of cultivated areas" /
"densification of space" / "pastoral mobility" is translated by seasonal conflicts between pastoralists and farmers
but also more between farmers aspiring to be as breeders and vice versa. Public policies to accompany these
changes reducing conflicts must combine three dimensions: (i) A new local decentralization ensuring a
recognition of historical land uses and organizing a new assignment through land use plans and local governance
bodies, including the condition of the land between the users and uses; (ii) The organization of evolutionary
pastoral systems, retaining their essential quality of mobility and the ability to value free seasonal biomass; (iii) A
reasoned agricultural intensification locally according to the potential. Examples: Mali, Niger, Senegal, Burkina
Faso, Chad and Cameroon to the north, show that the simultaneous combination of these three approaches
"Local Governance / pastoralism / agriculture" can reduce the risk of conflict.
Speakers:
- Dr. Ousmane Sy, former Minister for Decentralization, Mali
- Sébastien Demay, Head of Mission, Ouagadougou (Burkina Fasso), Agence Française de Développement
- Benoit Verdeaux, Strategic Positioning and Communications, Sub-Saharan Department, and Regional
Coordinator for Nigeria, Agence Française de Développement
- Marc Trouyet, Assistant Director for Democratic Governance, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France
- Ali Bety, Programme Manager for Rural Development in Niger, Agence Française de Développement
(Niamey)
- Seydou Sanou, Observatoire du Foncier
- Peter Hochet, Research Director, Laboratoire Citoyennetes
- Ced Hesse, Principal Researcher-Drylands, Climate Change Group, and Team Leader, Research for
Advocacy, International Institute for Environment and Development
- Francois G. Le Gall, Adviser, Agriculture Department-Global Practice, World Bank Group
- Stéphane Forman, Senior Livestock Specialist, Agriculture Department-Global Practice, World Bank Group
- Christian Berger, Senior Agricultural Specialist, Agriculture Department-Global Practice, World Bank
Group
- Caroline Plancon, Senior Land Policy Specialist, Urban, Rural and Social Development Department-Global
Practice, World Bank Group
Moderators:
- Jean-Luc François, Agence Française de Développement
- Zacharie Mechali, Agence Française de Développement
Introductory Remarks:
- Olivier Ray, Head of the Fragile States Unit, Agence Française de Développement
Redefining Fragility to End Poverty
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12:10 - 12:45 pm - Art Exhibition Walking Tour, Meeting Point: MC Information Desk
Join World Bank curator Marina Galvani in a walking tour and conversation which explores a bold, poignant and
poetic selection of artwork by artists of fragile states addressing the rampant violence, devastating conflict and
ravaging instability of their societies.
12:30 - 2:00 pm - PLENARY SESSION: RETHINKING THE PERSISTENCE OF FRAGILITY: EXPERIENCES FROM
LOCAL TO GLOBAL (Lunch Included from 12:00 pm (noon) – 12:30 pm)
Opening Remarks:
- Betty Bigombe, Senior Director, Fragility, Conflict and Violence-Cross Cutting Solutions Area, World Bank
Group
Speakers:
- Dr. Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group
- Daniel Kablan Duncan, Prime Minister, Cote d’Ivoire
- Dr. Rodrigo Guerrero, Mayor of Cali, Colombia
- Nancy Lindborg, President, United States Institute of Peace
- Ambassador Martin S. Indyk, Vice President and Director of the Foreign Policy Program, Brookings
Institution
Moderator:
- Femi Oke, Journalist and International Broadcaster, Host of Al Jazeera’s ‘The Stream’
2:00 - 5:00 pm - Violence prevention: Overview of the state of the field
Violence is a major global development problem, with low- and middle-income countries, and the urban young
bearing the largest burden. Successful violence prevention programs exist; however, the existing evidence base
often does not inform practice or policy-making. Furthermore, significant gaps in the evidence base remain;
many programs that have been evaluated in higher income countries are problematic to implement in less
resourced contexts. An overview of the state of the field will be provided, with a focus on urban youth violence
prevention. New bank partnerships to build the global evidence base around the effectiveness of violence
prevention development aid will be presented and discussed.
Speakers:
- Mark Rosenberg, President and CEO of the organization and Director of the Task Force's Center for Global
Health Collaboration
- Rodrigo Guerrero, Mayor of Cali, Colombia, and member of CISALVA, the Violence Research Center of
Universidad del Valle, and the Institute of Medicine
- Nancy Guerra, Professor of Psychology and Brain Sciences, Co-chair, Global Learning Initiative to Prevent
Violence in Childhood, Director Prevention and Culture Lab-University of Delaware
- Roseanna Ander, Founding Executive Director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, the Chicago
Education Lab and partner in the joint WB-University of Chicago J-PAL (The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty
Action Lab) Crime Initiative
Discussants:
- Alexandra Toma, Executive Director of the Peace and Security Funders Group
- Joan Serra Hoffman, Senior Social Development Specialist, World Bank Group
Moderator:
- Maninder S. Gill, Director, Urban, Rural and Social Development Department-Global Practice, World Bank
Group
2:00 - 3:30 pm - Exploring the link between fragility and criminal activity
Transnational organized crime, corruption, illegal trade in natural resources, the laundering of the proceeds of
crime and tax evasion – impact governance and development outcomes across the developing world. These
threats fuel grievances and violence and undermine the effectiveness of national institutions and social norms,
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ultimately compromising economic growth. Presenting recent research by the OECD and the World Bank, this
session will explore the linkages between criminal activities, their related illicit financial flows, and the implications
for conflict and fragility. It will also look at how “follow the money tools” can be used to stem these flows and
combat the underlying offences.
Speakers:
- Juan Ronderos, Sanctions Officer, Inter-American Development Bank, and former Investigator at the
Office of the Attorney General of Colombia
- Jolanda Profos, Peace and Conflict Adviser, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- Tuesday Reitano, Head of the Secretariat, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime
- Zainab Ahmed, CEO of NEITI
Moderator:
- Larisa Gray, Senior Financial Sector Specialist, Financial Market Integrity, World Bank Group
2:00 - 5:00 pm - Design and delivery of private sector development projects in FCV (Closed session by Trade and
Competitiveness Global Practice)
A workshop to provide knowledge and skills for staff working on design and implementation of private sector
development projects in fragile and conflict situations. This workshop draws on the experience and knowledge
of World Bank Group’s experts in working on private sector development projects in these challenging
environments. The participants, will be guided by the experts through a case study, and will be asked to diagnose
a situation and brainstorm about solutions.
Speakers:
- John Speakman, Lead Private Sector Development Specialist, Trade and Competitiveness, World Bank
Group
- Nabila Assaf, Senior Private Sector Development Specialist, Trade and Competitiveness, World Bank
Group
2:00 - 3:30 pm - Assessment and management of environmental damage due to armed conflict and acts of war
Environmental damage due to armed conflict and acts of war affects victims more often and in more direct ways
than generally acknowledged, and frequently represents one of the most significant and persistent impacts. This
is also a field where the World Bank Group, through its expertise in the analysis, assessment, management and
mitigation of pollution, degradation of land, and depletion of natural resources can provide significant value to
conflict-affected countries and situations. This clinic proposes a methodology for rapid damage assessment and
prioritization that relies on a screening analysis of key factors, such as socio-economic needs, obtainable baseline
data, and damage data.
Speakers:
- Benoit Bosquet, Practice Manager, Environment and Natural Resources Department-Global Practice,
World Bank Group
- Ayaz Pervez, Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist, Climate Change, World Bank Group
- Muralee Thummarukudy, Senior Programme Officer, Disaster Risk Reduction, United Nations
Environment Program
Moderator:
- Wolfhart Pohl, Adviser, GCFDR, World Bank Group
2:00 - 3:30 pm - Addressing fragility in middle income countries
The current criteria for fragility, focusing on states (primarily lower income countries) having weak policies and
institutions or countries affected by conflict, has strong limitations in accounting for fragility and heightened risk
of socio-political instability in middle income countries (MICs). This session proposes an expansion of the concept
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and operational implications of fragility, to enable inclusion of fragile MICs in a way that is useful to policy makers
and practitioners when designing development strategies and allocating funds. The session also discusses how
interventions to support fragile MICs may differ from support to fragile LICs.
Introductory Remarks:
- Ferid Belhaj, Country Director for Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, Middle East and North Africa
Region, World Bank Group
Speakers:
- Pauline H. Baker, President Emeritus, Fund for Peace (FFP)
- Seth Kaplan, Professorial Lecturer in the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns
Hopkins University
- Kevin Carey, Lead Economist on Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management (Middle East and North Africa
Region), World Bank Group
- Elisabeth Huybens, Practice Manager, Social Development, Europe and Central Asia Region, World Bank
Group
- Nadia Piffaretti, Senior Economist on Fragility, Conflict, and Violence, World Bank Group
Moderator:
- Alexandre Marc, Chief Technical Specialist, Fragility, Conflict and Violence-Cross Cutting Solutions Area,
World Bank Group
2:00 - 3:30 pm - The nexus between religion and peace: Harnessing the power of faith to promote peace and
stability
This interactive panel discussion will explore the nexus between religion and peace, drawing on academic
research as well as concrete case studies and practical examples to explore the positive role that religious actors
can play in peacebuilding efforts.
Speakers:
- Michelle Breslauer, US Program Manager for the Americas, Institute for Economics and Peace
- Kristen Looney, Head of Programs and Partnerships, Tony Blair Faith Foundation
- Dr. William Vendley, Secretary General, Religions for Peace
- Torrey Olsen, World Vision US
- Dr. Chris Seiple, President, Institute for Global Engagement
- Andrea Bartoli, Community of Sant'Egidio
- Dr. Mohamed Elsanousi, Director of External Relations, Secretariat of the Network of Religious and
Traditional Peacemakers
Moderator:
- Adam Taylor, Lead Faith-Based Initiative, World Bank Group
3:30 - 5:00 pm - Efficient basic services delivery as a conflict-mitigating tool in FCV (RBF-OBA)
The session will provide practical examples of how and why innovative financing tools such as Results Based
Financing (RBF) and Output Based Aid (OBA) can be used to expand access for the poor to basic services in FCV.
Many believe that improved service delivery can play a conflict-mitigating role, by reducing tensions and
grievances over services between conflicting groups, yet service delivery in FCV is often ineffective due to the
lack of a proper framework and adequate coordination amongst different local, national and international actors.
Incentives for adequate service delivery may be distorted through corruption and the private capture of public
resources at local and national level, while incentives to reach the poor may be lacking entirely.
Speakers:
- Jain Holsheimer, Altai Consulting
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-
Naila Ahmed, Rural Development Specialist, Urban, Rural and Social Development Department-Global
Practice, World Bank Group
- Samantha de Silva, Senior Social Protection Specialist, Education Department-Global Practice, World Bank
Group
Moderator:
- Richard Hogg, Program Leader, Kabul (Afghanistan), World Bank Group
3:30 - 5:00 pm - Lessons from citizen engagement solutions in Fragile States
Social and political fragmentation, limited access to information, low level of citizen engagement, in addition to
infrastructural gaps, make fragile states vulnerable to breaches in trust that can arise when citizens feel
disconnected from decision-making processes. Engaging citizens in policy making is central to reinforce social
cohesion, inspire civic ownership, and help shape the authorizing environment needed to advance development
policies and programs. While technology-enhanced citizen engagement can bring shortcut solutions to problems
in local communities, low level of internet access and use of ICTs create limitations to citizen voice and
participation in fragile contexts. Proper mechanisms for online and offline citizen engagement, and the right
balance between these forms of engagement are crucial to ensure development impact in these contexts.
Speakers:
- Rens Rutten, Senior Monitoring and Evaluation officer, Corporate Strategy Unit – Cordaid
- Joy Saunders, Chief Executive Officer, Integrity Action
- Stephen Davenport, Senior Governance Specialist, Digital Engagement, Governance Global Practice,
World Bank Group
- Asta Olesen, Senior Social Development in Afghanistan Specialist, Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience
Global Practice, World Bank Group
Moderator:
- Jeff Thindwa, Practice Manager, Governance and Inclusive Institutions, Governance Global Practice, World
Bank Group
3:30 -5:00 pm - Theories of change on fragility, conflict & violence (Joint event with the Alliance for Peacebuilding)
Experts from the UN, USAID, World Bank, and Alliance for Peacebuilding will present a panel that will illustrate
the utility of theories of change for the World Bank community of practice. Panelists will explain how their
organizations use theories of change; what theories of change are implicitly or explicitly emphasized in their
organization; and/or how their organization uses theories of change to design evidence-based programs and
policies.
Speakers:
- Melissa Brown, Director of Conflict Management and Mitigation, United States Agency for International
Development
- Henk-Jan Brinkman, Peacebuilding Support Office, United Nations
- Lisa Schirch, Alliance for Peacebuilding Director of Human Security
- Julia Roig, President, Partners for Democratic Change
- Stephen Commins, Consultant, World Development Report 2015, World Bank Group
Moderator:
- Alexandre Marc, Chief Technical Specialist, Fragility, Conflict and Violence-Cross Cutting Solutions Area,
World Bank Group
5:00 – 6:00 pm - CLOSING CEREMONY AND RECEPTION (Atrium), featuring Patrick Kabanda, Juilliard School
graduate trained Ugandan concert pianist
Speakers:
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Nena Stoiljkovic, Vice President, Global Practice, International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group
Keith Hansen, Vice President, Global Practice Cross-Cutting Solutions, World Bank Group
Jean Philippe Prosper, Vice President, Global Client Services, International Finance Corporation, World
Bank Group
Annette Dixon, Vice President, South Asia Region, World Bank Group
Chair:
- Betty Bigombe, Senior Director, Fragility, Conflict and Violence-Cross Cutting Solutions Area, World Bank
Group
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