invite you to a discussion featuring a recent publication:
DEVELOPMENT AND FAITH:
Where Mind, Heart, and Soul Work Together
by Katherine Marshall and Marisa Van Saanen
Development and Faith: Where Mind, Heart, and Soul Work Together explores and
highlights promising partnerships in the world between secular and faith
development entities. It recounts the evolving history of relationships between
faith and secular development institutions. It focuses on the Millennium
Development Goals as a common framework for action and an opportunity for new
forms of collaboration and partnership.
For more information about the book, please visit:
http://www.worldbankinfoshop.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=6799448
"We need to do a better job to learn from successful faith and interfaith work
to make the world a better, more peaceful place. This volume describes an
impressive array of innovative partnerships and alliances. It inspires us to
dream bigger about what development can accomplish."
David Saperstein, Director and Counsel, Religious Action Center of Reform
Judaism
Friday, November 30, 2007
12:30 - 2:00pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
Cookes and Coffee will be served
For non bank staff, please RSVP to InfoShopevents@worldbank.org
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OPENING REMARKS
Joy Phumaphi
Vice President, Human Development Network,World Bank
Ms. Phumaphi, a Botswana national, began public service in Botswana as a local
government auditor. From 1994 to 2003, she went on to serve in Parliament and as
a representative to the Southern African Development Community. She entered the
Cabinet with responsibility for lands and housing and developed the first
national housing policy. Ms. Phumaphi subsequently served as Minister for
Health where she restructured the ministry to make it more focused on results
while overseeing revision of the Public Health Act and putting into action a
multi-sectoral plan to combat HIV/AIDS. In 2003, she joined the World Health
Organization as the Assistant Director General for Family and Community Health
Department, managing a staff of over 1100 globally. She is in the Board of
GAVI. She has served as a member of the UN Reference Group on Economics and a
UN Commissioner on HIV/AIDS and Governance. She is a member of the UNDP
advisory board for Africa. Ms. Phumaphi is a distinguished Afgrad Fellow who
serves as a member of the Africa-America Institute Campaign Committee. She
joined the Bank and became the Vice President of the Human Development Network
on February 5, 2007.
DISCUSSED BY
James Adams
Vice President, East Asia and the Pacific Region, World Bank
Mr. Adams has overall responsibility for World Bank operations in the one of the
world?s most dynamic regions. Previously, Mr. Adams was Vice President and Head
of Network, Operations Policy and Country Services, at the World Bank. In this
capacity, he was responsible for operational policy development, procurement and
financial management activities, relations with United Nations and
nongovernmental organizations, and support to Regional staff working in all
these areas. Since joining the Bank in 1974, he has held a variety of
operational positions in East Asia, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa,
including as Country Director for Tanzania and Uganda, as Director for
Operations Policy, and as a Division Chief of several departments. Before
joining the Bank, Mr. Adams worked as a loan officer for Merchants Bank, in
Syracuse, NY, and with the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, in Geneva,
Switzerland.
PRESENTED BY AUTHORS
Katherine Marshall
Senior Advisor, Human Development Network, World Bank
Ms. Marshall has worked for over three decades on international development,
with a focus on issues facing the world?s poorest countries. She is also a
Senior Fellow and Visiting Professor at Georgetown's Berkley Center for
Religion, Peace and World Affairs. From 2000-2006 her mandate covered ethics,
values, and faith in development work, as counselor to the World Bank?s
President. Ms. Marshall served earlier as Country Director in the World Bank?s
Africa region, first for the Sahel region, then Southern Africa. She led the
Bank's work on social policy and governance during the East Asia crisis years.
She also worked extensively on Eastern Africa and Latin America.
Marisa Van Saanen
Ms. Van Saanen has worked with the Development Dialogue on Values and Ethics
since 2003 and is currently a JD student at the Yale Law School. Ms. Van Saanen
has volunteered, interned, and worked with a variety of organizations working on
health and poverty issues, including with a rural U.S. Department of Human
Services; with Washington, D.C. non-profits like Food & Friends; with Bread for
the World; with the United States Senate on health and aging issues; and with
former President Clinton?s Office of National AIDS Policy. She has traveled
extensively studying social movements and grassroots organizing; wrote her
graduate thesis on the WTO and public health; and has twice co-taught an
undergraduate course in India, on the Gandhian Legacy, Grassroots Development,
and Conflict Resolution in India.
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