Health and Fragile States Network Presentation Chaired by Julian Schweitzer Wednesday, June 11 at 12:30 - 2:00 pm in MC13-121 - Lunch served

* To register on LMS, please click here. *
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WB HNP anchor & WB Fragile and Conflict-Affected Countries Group

invite you to attend a meetingchaired by Julian Schweitzer, Director
of HNP to launch the Network and to discuss the findings of two
recently commissioned studies on aid effectiveness in transition,
and health and state-building.

Executive summaries will be available at the event
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| Policy and Funding | |
| Gap: A Question of | |
| Aid Effectiveness | Wednesday, June 11, 2008 |
| Petra Vergeer, KIT | 12:30 - 2:00pm |
| | World Bank Main Complex |
| The paper focuses on | MC13 - 121 |
| the current aid | 1818 H Street, NW |
| architecture as it | Washington, DC |
| pertains to the | A lunch buffet will be served |
| health sector in | |
| post conflict | For non Bank staff, please RSVP to |
| countries. The aim | infoshopevents@worldbank.org |
| is to build up a | |
| stronger evidence | |
| base regarding real | |
| or potential | |
| transitional funding | |
| gaps, with special | |
| attention to the | |
| determinants of | |
| transitional funding | |
| for the health | |
| sector. | |
| | |
| Health System | |
| Reconstruction and | |
| State-building | |
| Jack Eldon, HLSP | |
| | |
| This paper examines | |
| whether rebuilding | |
| health systems | |
| strengthens the | |
| social contract | |
| between state and | |
| society and | |
| contributes to | |
| state-building. It | |
| explores whether | |
| health service | |
| delivery signals the | |
| will and capacity of | |
| the state to act on | |
| behalf of citizens | |
| in a responsive and | |
| accountable manner, | |
| and whether the | |
| planning, management | |
| and delivery of | |
| health services | |
| contributes to | |
| capacity development | |
| beyond the health | |
| sector. | |
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PANELISTS
Jack Eldon
Lead Specialist in Governance, HLSP, London
Mr. Eldon is a specialist in institutional development with over 20
years experience in Africa, South Asia and East Asia, working mainly
on decentralised governance, devolved service delivery and local
government capacity development. He joined HLSP London in October
2006 as a Lead Specialist in Governance, focusing on the political
and institutional aspects of health systems development. Before
joining HLSP, Mr Eldon?s experience included working as a Senior
Governance and Institutional Development Specialist with the British
Council for four years, and prior to that, working for 13 years in
different parts of Africa on a wide range of institutional
development projects funded mainly by DFID.

Olga Bornemisza
Research Fellow, Conflict and Health Program, Health Policy Unit at
the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Ms. Bornemisza joined the School in 2001. Research interests include
the links between health and the securitization of aid, contracting
mechanisms to deliver a basic package of health services, health
financing and user fees in conflict zones, and the reform of
humanitarian aid. She has also done work on inter-agency
evaluations in the humanitarian health sector, and reform of the
Serbian health system. Before joining LSHTM, she lived in Malawi and
Kenya, where she worked on the design, monitoring and evaluation of
development programs.

Petra Vergeer
Adviser on health systems development, KIT Development Policy and
Practice, Amsterdam
For almost ten years, Ms. Vergeer has worked in public health in
various countries, especially in fragile states, of Africa, Asia,
Eastern Europe and the Pacific. From 2004 ? 2006 she worked as
adviser and as team leader on the Institutional Strengthening
Project for the Solomon Islands Ministry of Health. She also has
extensive experience at the operational level, carrying out
situation analyses and health needs assessments; organizing
programme activities in primary health care and public health; and
developing strategies for improving access, quality and the
monitoring and evaluation of health services.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

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"Prospects for Trade Integration through Unilateral Reforms and International Agreements" on Thursday, June 12 at 10:30am

The World Bank Public Information Center/InfoShop & the World Bank Institute
& The School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University

invite you to a roundtable session

Prospects for Trade Integration through Unilateral Reforms and International
Agreements

As interdependence among nations has grown at rapid pace during the last few
decades, the trade agenda has expanded beyond its traditional focus on tariff
protection and has created new and complex public policy challenges for both
domestic policy makers and negotiatiors in multilateral, regional, or bilateral
fora.

The panel will reflect on the pace so far and prospects of trade integration
through unilateral reforms and international negotiations (e.g. North-South
FTAs, South-South RTAs,and in the Doha Round).

This roundtable session is among the concluding events of a two-week long Trade
Policy for Development Executive Courseoffered jointly by the School of
International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University and the World
Bank Institute (WBI). Given the caliber of the panelists and the high relevance
of the topic for a larger audience, WBI extends the invitation to attend the
rountable to Bank staff and DC-based trade officials, advisors, analysts and the
diplomatic community.

Thursday, June 12, 2008
10:30 am - 12:15 pm
World Bank J Building
Auditorium J1-050
701 18th Street, NW
Drinks and appetizers will be available after the presentation

For non Bank staff, please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

CHAIR
Gianni Zanini
Lead Economist, World Bank Institute

PANELISTS
Jeffrey Schott
Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics, Peterson Institute

Arvind Panagariya
Professor of Economics, Columbia University
Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution

Bernard Hoekman
Senior Advisor, Development Research Group, World Bank

Pablo de la Flor (via V/C)
Vice President, Corporative Affairs, Antamina
Former Chief Negotiator for the US-Peru FTA

Sherry Stephenson
Chief, Department of International Affairs, Organization of American States

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a
forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has hosted
many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina.
The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and
provides internal and external audiences with over 15,000 titles published by
the World Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop
Comments about the events program: http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

"Prospects for Trade Integration through Unilateral Reforms and International Agreements" on Thursday, June 12 at 10:30am

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& The School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia
University

invite you to a roundtable session
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| Prospects for Trade | |
| Integration through | As interdependence among nations has |
| Unilateral Reforms | grown at rapid pace during the last |
| and International | few decades, the trade agenda has |
| Agreements | expanded beyond its traditional focus |
| | on tariff protection and has created |
| Thursday, June 12, | new and complex public policy |
| 2008 | challenges for both domestic policy |
| 10:30 am - 12:15 pm | makers and negotiatiors in |
| World Bank J | multilateral, regional, or bilateral |
| Building | fora. |
| Auditorium J1-050 | |
| 701 18th Street, NW | The panel will reflect on the pace so |
| Drinks and | far and prospects of trade |
| appetizers will be | integration through unilateral |
| available after the | reforms and international |
| presentation | negotiations (e.g. North-South FTAs, |
| | South-South RTAs,and in the Doha |
| For non Bank staff, | Round). |
| please RSVP to | |
| infoshopevents@world | This roundtable session is among the |
| bank.org | concluding events of a two-week long |
| | Trade Policy for Development |
| | Executive Courseoffered jointly by |
| | the School of International and |
| | Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia |
| | University and the World Bank |
| | Institute (WBI). Given the caliber |
| | of the panelists and the high |
| | relevance of the topic for a larger |
| | audience, WBI extends the invitation |
| | to attend the rountable to Bank staff |
| | and DC-based trade officials, |
| | advisors, analysts and the diplomatic |
| | community. |
| | |
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CHAIR
Gianni Zanini
Lead Economist, World Bank Institute

PANELISTS
Jeffrey Schott
Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics, Peterson
Institute

Arvind Panagariya
Professor of Economics, Columbia University
Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution

Bernard Hoekman
Senior Advisor, Development Research Group, World Bank

Pablo de la Flor (via V/C)
Vice President, Corporative Affairs, Antamina
Former Chief Negotiator for the US-Peru FTA

Sherry Stephenson
Chief, Department of International Affairs, Organization of American
States

______________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

NEW TIME: "Business and Poverty: Opening markets to the poor" launched on Monday, June 9 from 12:30 to 1:45pm in Preston Auditorium

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invite you to the launch of the June issue of Development Outreach
on
Business and Poverty:
Opening markets to the poor
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| | Can poor producers and consumers in |
| | turn transform business models and |
| | shape new opportunities for |
| | companies? |
| | |
| | These are two of the key questions |
| | addressed in the forthcoming issue of |
| | Development Outreach, which examines |
| | the realities of private sector |
| | operations at the base of the pyramid |
| | and the potential risks and benefits |
| | for local development. |
| | |
| | Monday, June 9, 2008 |
| | 12:30 - 1:45 pm |
| | The presentation is followed by a |
| | lunch reception |
| | World Bank Main Complex |
| | Preston Auditorium |
| | 1818 H Street, NW |
| | Washington, DC |
| | |
| | For non Bank staff, please RSVP to |
| | infoshopevents@worldbank.org |
| | |
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PRESENTED BY DEVELOPMENT OUTREACH GUEST EDITORS:
V. Kasturi Rangan
Professor, Harvard Business School

William Laufer
Professor, Wharton School of Business

Djordjija Petkoski
Program Leader, Business, Competitiveness & Development Team, World Bank
Institute

DISCUSSED BY
David Lustig
Vice President for External Affairs, Unilever

Tony Henshaw
Corporate Vice President of Sustainability, CEMEX

Masakazu Sago
President, Sumimoto Chemical USA

Louise Hilsen
Vice President of Government Affairs, Nestle USA

MODERATED BY
Christopher Neal
Senior Communications Officer, World Bank Institute

________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

REMINDER: "New Frontiers of Social Policy - Inclusive States, Equity and Assets" discussed on Wednesday, June 4 at 12:00pm in JB1-080. Books on sale at 50% discount

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cordially invite you to a launch of a series of books

New Frontiers of Social Policy
Inclusive States, Equity and Assets
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| Wednesday | Weak governance, market imperfections and|
| June 4, 2008 | historically rooted structural|
| 12:00 - 2:00 pm | inequalities have undermined the|
| World Bank J | effectiveness of social policy in many|
| Building | developing countries and need a renewed|
| Auditorium JB1-080| commitment toward social dimensions of|
| 701 18th Street, | sustainable development. |
| NW | |
| Washington, DC | These three books by a multi-disciplinary|
| | group of development researchers focus on|
| Refreshments will | different but interrelated conceptual and|
| be served | policy themes highly relevant to debates|
| | on development, equity and poverty|
| For more | reduction. Each fills gaps in knowledge|
| information and to| and practice ten years after the|
| buy the books | Copenhagen World Summit on Social|
| please visit click| Development. The themes include the|
| here. | relationship between equity and|
| | development, the role of institutions in|
| | blocking or promoting transitions to more|
| | inclusive states and more equitable forms|
| | of development, and the diverse strategies|
| | adopted by people through migration, slum|
| | upgrading, natural resources management,|
| | and informal businesses to accumulate|
| | assets and manage risks. |
| | |
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CHAIR
Kathy Sierra
Vice President and Head of Network, Sustainable Development Network,
World Bank

MODERATOR
Caroline Kende-Robb
Sector Manager, Social Development Department, World Bank

BOOK INTRODUCTIONS BY THE EDITORS:
Anis Dani
Adviser, Social Policy SDV and Operations Adviser, QAG, World Bank

VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE
Arjan de Haan
Policy Analyst, Department for International Development (DFID),
Beijing Office

Caroline Moser
Director Global Urban Research Centre, School of Environment and
Development, The University of Manchester

DISCUSSANTS
Francisco Ferreira
Lead Economist, Development Research Group (DECRG), World Bank
Former Director of World Development Report 2006: Equity and
Development

Carol Graham
Senior Fellow and Charles Robinson Chair, Foreign Policy/Global
Economy and Development, The Brookings Institution
Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland

______________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

World Day Against Child Labor on Thursday, June 12

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Invite you to a panel discussion in Washington, DC to address this
year?s theme

Education - The Right Response to Child Labor
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| According to ILO estimates, | World Day Against Child |
| there are over 200 million child | Labor |
| laborers in the world between 5 | |
| and 17 years old. Approximately | Thursday, June 12, 2008 |
| 165 million children between the | 1:00 - 3:30 pm |
| ages of 5 and 14 are missing out | World Bank J Building |
| on school to work often long | Auditorium J1-050 |
| hours in dangerous conditions. | 701 18th Street, NW |
| There is a need to focus efforts | |
| on the remaining 15-25% of | |
| children out of school, and | For non Bank staff, |
| recognize child labor as the | please RSVP to |
| largest barrier to achieving | infoshopevents@worldbank. |
| Education for All (EFA) by 2015. | org |
| | |
| This event will include a | |
| discussion among panelists | |
| followed by a wider debate with | |
| other participants. The | |
| panelists will cover ground on | |
| Government efforts in the North | |
| and South to confront this | |
| situation. | |
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Introduction
Sudhanshu Joshi, Executive Director, ICCLE

Short Film Screening
Rescuing Emmanuel
Len Morris, Galen Films

Panel I: Education for All: Progress, Gaps, and Challenges

MODERATOR: Robert Prouty, Deputy Head of FTI Secretariat, The
Education For All Fast-Track

Rogerio Studart, Executive Director for Brazil, Colombia, Dominican
Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Panama, Philippines, Suriname, Trinidad &
Tobago, World Bank

Dhanendra Kumar, W.Bank?s Executive Director for Bangladesh, Bhutan,
India and Sri Lanka

Nicholas Burnett, Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO

Cream Wright, Head for Education, UNICEF

Gene Sperling, Center on Universal Education, Senior Fellow at the
Center for American Progress, Senior Fellow for Economic Policy and
Director of the Council on Foreign Relations (TBC)

Panel II: Policy integration -
Linking Education with Other Child Labor Eradication Factors

MODERATOR: Armand F. Pereira, Director, ILO

Kailash Satyarthi, Chair, Global March (via V/C)

H.E Mark P. Lagon, Ambassador at Large, Trafficking in Persons
Office, State Department

Marcia Eugenio, Director, Office for Child Labor, Forced Labor,
Human Trafficking, U.S. Department of Labor

Jan Eastman, Deputy General Secretary, Education International

Aud Kolberg, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Norway

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About the International Labour Organization (ILO)
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is devoted to advancing
opportunities for women and men to obtain decent and productive work
in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity. Its
main aims are to promote rights at work, encourage decent employment
opportunities, enhance social protection and strengthen dialogue in
handling work-related issues. In promoting social justice and
internationally recognized human and labour rights, the organization
continues to pursue its founding mission that labour peace is
essential to prosperity. Today, the ILO helps advance the creation
of decent jobs and the kinds of economic and working conditions that
give working people and business people a stake in lasting peace,
prosperity and progress.
For more information, please visit: www.ilo.org

About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

REMINDER: "Strategic Environmental Assessment for Policies - an Instrument for Good Governance" on Tuesday, June 3 at 3:00-5:00pm in J1-050

The World Bank Public Information Cetner/InfoShop & the World Bank Environment
Department

INVITE YOU TO A LAUNCH OF A RECENT WORLD BANK PUBLICATION FOLLOWED BY A
RECEPTION

Strategic Environmental Assessment for Policies
An Instrument for Good Governance

Environmentally and socially sustainable policies are essential for good
governance. Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is the key tool for
integrating environmental considerations into policies, programs and plans.
This edited book focuses on SEA applied to policies. Through lessons learned
from previous use of SEA on policies, it draws lessons on strengths and
weaknesses of current SEA methodology. It then goes on to analyze how policies
are formulated and implemented and proposes a new conceptual framework for
conducting SEA of policies that potentially could be more useful in influencing
decision makers to integrate environmental sustainability considerations into
policy formulation and implementation. Currently this framework is being
piloted in developing countries in different sectors by the World Bank.

Strategic Environmental Assessment for Policies: An Instrument for Good
Governance is the third title in the Environment and Development Series. This
new series from World Bank Publications covers current and emerging issues in
order to promote debate and broaden the understanding of environmental
challenges as integral to equitable and sustained economic growth.

For more information or to buy the book, please click here.

Tuesday, June 3
3:00 - 5:00pm
World Bank J Building
Auditorium J1-050
701 18th Street, NW
Washington, DC

*RSVP REQUIRED* Please send an email to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

CHAIRED BY
Inger Andersen
Director, Sustainable Development Department, Africa Region, World Bank
Ms. Andersen has just been appointed Director of the World Bank's Sustainable
Development Department for the Africa Region (the department covers water supply
and sanitation, water resource management, energy, agriculture and rural
development, environment, urban development, transport, conflict prevention and
social development) . Prior to her Africa appointment, Ms. Andersen served as
Director of the Sustainable Development Department in the Middle East and North
Africa Region of the World Bank Group. She has also held positions as Sector
Manager in the Bank's Africa Urban and Water Unit for West and Central Africa
and as Sr. Water Resources Specialist in the Africa Region, where she worked on
large river basins, including the Senegal, the Niger and the Nile River Basins.
Prior to joining the World Bank, Ms. Andersen held various positions at United
Nations Development Program,including managing environment and water operations
and policy dialogue in both Africa and the Middle East regions. She has also
worked in Sudan, where she managed an NGO supporting drought, famine, and war
relief and rehabilitation in Sudan.

PRESENTED BY CO-EDITORS
Kulsum Ahmed
Lead Environmental Specialist, Environment Department, World Bank
Ms. Ahmed is a lead environmental specialist at the World Bank and team leader
for the environmental institutions and governance program (which includes, among
other activities, the SEA program) and environmental-health program in the
Environment Department. She has considerable experience as an operations task
manager and led the team that prepared the Bank's first structural adjustment
loan to integrate environmental considerations in key sector's of a country's
economy. She is the World Bank's representative on the OECD Development
Assistance Committee's task team on strategic environmental assessment. She has
authored numerous publications on energy, the environment, health, strategic
assessment, and industrial pollution.

Ernesto Sánchez-Triana
Senior Environmental Engineer, South Asia Sustainable Development Department,
World Bank
Mr. Sánchez-Triana is a senior environmental engineer in the World Bank's South
Asia Region. Before joining the Bank he taught at Colombia's National
University, managed the Special Division of Environmental Policy in Colombia's
Department of National Planning, and worked at the Inter-American Development
Bank. At the World Bank, he has led the preparation of policy-based loans that
aim to incorporate environmental considerations into economic and sectoral
policies, as well as the conduction of comprehensive assessments to identify and
correct the institutional weaknesses that contribute to environmental
degradation. Mr. Sánchez-Triana is the author of numerous publications on
environmental and energy policy, political economy, and the use of economic
instruments for environmental protection.

DISCUSSED BY
Harry Blair
Contributing Author and Lecturer in Political Science, Yale University
Mr. Blair currently serves as Associate Chair, Senior Research Scholar and
Lecturer in Political Science at Yale University. Previously he has held
positions at Bucknell, Colgate, Columbia, Cornell and Rutgers Universities. In
his research and practical work, he focused initially on agriculture and rural
development policy, shifting more into forestry and natural resource management
in the 1980s. Since the early 1990s, he has worked mainly in the democracy and
governance area, principally in the civil society and decentralization sectors.
Geographically, his field work and writing include Eastern Europe, Latin
America, and both South and Southeast Asia. Dr. Blair served several years as
senior advisor with the United States Agency for International Development and
has worked as a short-term consultant for the Department for International
Development (UK), Ford Foundation, Swedish International Development Cooperation
Agency, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations
Development Programme, and the World Bank. His recent writing can be found at
http://pantheon.yale.edu/~hb94.

Caroline Kende-Robb
Contributing Author and Sector Manager, Social Development Department, World
Bank
Prior to her current assignment, Ms. Kende-Robb was the first Social Development
Specialist recruited by the International Monetary Fund, with the responsibility
of promoting a greater poverty and social development focus in Fund-supported
programs. Ms. Kende-Robb also has considerable work experience in the private
sector, as well as with non-governmental organizations. She has lived and
worked in West Africa for extensive periods of time. Ms. Kende-Robb has
published a book titled, Can the Poor Influence Policy? Participatory Poverty
Assessments in the Developing World.

Colin Bruce
Country Director, World Bank
Mr. Bruce, a Guyanese national, is Country Director for Comoros, Eritrea, Kenya,
Rwanda, Seychelles and Somalia. In that capacity, he has worked on many
practical aspects of advancing governance through country and sector strategies
and programs. Previously, he was Senior Manager for Policy Review and
Dissemination in the Operations Policy and Country Services Vice Presidency.
One of the first Strategic Environmental Assessment pilots, using the conceptual
framework described in the book, was carried out to support implementation of
the new Forest Law in Kenya.

Michael Stanley
Senior Mining Engineer, Oil, Gas and Mining, Joint World Bank and IFC Department
Mr. Stanley, a Canadian national, is a senior mining engineer (COCPO) with
expertise in a) resource assessment, b) economics, and c) policy issues in the
mining sector. His work includes mineral policy development through improved
resource governance, mineral resource development as a tool for achieving
economic sustainability, indigenous cultures and integrating local issues in
resource development. He is the Task Team Leader for mining projects in Sierra
Leone and Pakistan, co-Task Team Leader for the Kosovo mining project, and a
team member of the Afghanistan mining project -- all projects where Strategic
Environmental Assessment is currently being undertaken. Prior to joining the
World Bank, he lead a series of major resource policy development projects and
supervised international exploration programs for precious and base metals. He
published numerous articles and papers on mining and mineral resources.

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a
forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has hosted
many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina.
The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and
provides internal and external audiences with over 15,000 titles published by
the World Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
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REMINDER: "Strategic Environmental Assessment for Policies - an Instrument for Good Governance" on Tuesday, June 3 at 3:00-5:00pm in J1-050

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| | An Instrument for Good Governance |
| Tuesday, June 3 | |
| 3:00 - 5:00pm | Environmentally and socially |
| World Bank J | sustainable policies are essential |
| Building | for good governance. Strategic |
| Auditorium J1-050 | Environmental Assessment (SEA) is the |
| | key tool for integrating |
| | environmental considerations into |
| | policies, programs and plans. This |
| | edited book focuses on SEA applied to |
| | policies. Through lessons learned |
| | from previous use of SEA on policies, |
| | it draws lessons on strengths and |
| | weaknesses of current SEA |
| | methodology. It then goes on to |
| | analyze how policies are formulated |
| | and implemented and proposes a new |
| | conceptual framework for conducting |
| | SEA of policies that potentially |
| | could be more useful in influencing |
| | decision makers to integrate |
| | environmental sustainability |
| | considerations into policy |
| | formulation and implementation. |
| | Currently this framework is being |
| | piloted in developing countries in |
| | different sectors by the World Bank. |
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| | Strategic Environmental Assessment |
| | for Policies: An Instrument for Good |
| | Governance is the third title in the |
| | Environment and Development Series. |
| | This new series from World Bank |
| | Publications covers current and |
| | emerging issues in order to promote |
| | debate and broaden the understanding |
| | of environmental challenges as |
| | integral to equitable and sustained |
| | economic growth. |
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| | For more information or to buy the |
| | book, please click here. |
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CHAIRED BY
Inger Andersen
Director, Sustainable Development Department, Africa Region, World
Bank
Ms. Andersen has just been appointed Director of the World Bank's
Sustainable Development Department for the Africa Region (the
department covers water supply and sanitation, water resource
management, energy, agriculture and rural development, environment,
urban development, transport, conflict prevention and social
development) . Prior to her Africa appointment, Ms. Andersen served
as Director of the Sustainable Development Department in the Middle
East and North Africa Region of the World Bank Group. She has also
held positions as Sector Manager in the Bank's Africa Urban and
Water Unit for West and Central Africa and as Sr. Water Resources
Specialist in the Africa Region, where she worked on large river
basins, including the Senegal, the Niger and the Nile River Basins.
Prior to joining the World Bank, Ms. Andersen held various positions
at United Nations Development Program,including managing environment
and water operations and policy dialogue in both Africa and the
Middle East regions. She has also worked in Sudan, where she
managed an NGO supporting drought, famine, and war relief and
rehabilitation in Sudan.

PRESENTED BY CO-EDITORS
Kulsum Ahmed
Lead Environmental Specialist, Environment Department, World Bank
Ms. Ahmed is a lead environmental specialist at the World Bank and
team leader for the environmental institutions and governance
program (which includes, among other activities, the SEA program)
and environmental-health program in the Environment Department. She
has considerable experience as an operations task manager and led
the team that prepared the Bank's first structural adjustment loan
to integrate environmental considerations in key sector's of a
country's economy. She is the World Bank's representative on the
OECD Development Assistance Committee's task team on strategic
environmental assessment. She has authored numerous publications on
energy, the environment, health, strategic assessment, and
industrial pollution.

Ernesto Sánchez-Triana
Senior Environmental Engineer, South Asia Sustainable Development
Department, World Bank
Mr. Sánchez-Triana is a senior environmental engineer in the World
Bank's South Asia Region. Before joining the Bank he taught at
Colombia's National University, managed the Special Division of
Environmental Policy in Colombia's Department of National Planning,
and worked at the Inter-American Development Bank. At the World
Bank, he has led the preparation of policy-based loans that aim to
incorporate environmental considerations into economic and sectoral
policies, as well as the conduction of comprehensive assessments to
identify and correct the institutional weaknesses that contribute to
environmental degradation. Mr. Sánchez-Triana is the author of
numerous publications on environmental and energy policy, political
economy, and the use of economic instruments for environmental
protection.

DISCUSSED BY
Harry Blair
Contributing Author and Lecturer in Political Science, Yale
University
Mr. Blair currently serves as Associate Chair, Senior Research
Scholar and Lecturer in Political Science at Yale University.
Previously he has held positions at Bucknell, Colgate, Columbia,
Cornell and Rutgers Universities. In his research and practical
work, he focused initially on agriculture and rural development
policy, shifting more into forestry and natural resource management
in the 1980s. Since the early 1990s, he has worked mainly in the
democracy and governance area, principally in the civil society and
decentralization sectors. Geographically, his field work and
writing include Eastern Europe, Latin America, and both South and
Southeast Asia. Dr. Blair served several years as senior advisor
with the United States Agency for International Development and has
worked as a short-term consultant for the Department for
International Development (UK), Ford Foundation, Swedish
International Development Cooperation Agency, United Nations
Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations
Development Programme, and the World Bank. His recent writing can be
found at http://pantheon.yale.edu/~hb94.

Caroline Kende-Robb
Contributing Author and Sector Manager, Social Development
Department, World Bank
Prior to her current assignment, Ms. Kende-Robb was the first Social
Development Specialist recruited by the International Monetary Fund,
with the responsibility of promoting a greater poverty and social
development focus in Fund-supported programs. Ms. Kende-Robb also
has considerable work experience in the private sector, as well as
with non-governmental organizations. She has lived and worked in
West Africa for extensive periods of time. Ms. Kende-Robb has
published a book titled, Can the Poor Influence Policy?
Participatory Poverty Assessments in the Developing World.

Colin Bruce
Country Director, World Bank
Mr. Bruce, a Guyanese national, is Country Director for Comoros,
Eritrea, Kenya, Rwanda, Seychelles and Somalia. In that capacity,
he has worked on many practical aspects of advancing governance
through country and sector strategies and programs. Previously, he
was Senior Manager for Policy Review and Dissemination in the
Operations Policy and Country Services Vice Presidency. One of the
first Strategic Environmental Assessment pilots, using the
conceptual framework described in the book, was carried out to
support implementation of the new Forest Law in Kenya.

Michael Stanley
Senior Mining Engineer, Oil, Gas and Mining, Joint World Bank and
IFC Department
Mr. Stanley, a Canadian national, is a senior mining engineer
(COCPO) with expertise in a) resource assessment, b) economics, and
c) policy issues in the mining sector. His work includes mineral
policy development through improved resource governance, mineral
resource development as a tool for achieving economic
sustainability, indigenous cultures and integrating local issues in
resource development. He is the Task Team Leader for mining
projects in Sierra Leone and Pakistan, co-Task Team Leader for the
Kosovo mining project, and a team member of the Afghanistan mining
project -- all projects where Strategic Environmental Assessment is
currently being undertaken. Prior to joining the World Bank, he
lead a series of major resource policy development projects and
supervised international exploration programs for precious and base
metals. He published numerous articles and papers on mining and
mineral resources.

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