Draft Programme of Work - Committee of Experts

Meeting of the Committee of Experts of  the  2nd Joint Annual Meetings of the AU Conference of Ministers of Economy and Finance and ECA Conference of Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development

Cairo, Egypt
2-5 June 2009

Tuesday, 02 June

9:00  – 10:00 hours       Opening of the meeting

        • Opening remarks by Chairperson of the outgoing Bureau of the Committee of Experts.

        • Opening remarks by Mr. Maxwell Mkwezalamba, Commissioner for Economic Affairs, African Union Commission

        • Opening remarks by Mr. Abdoulie Janneh, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa

        • Opening statement by His Excellency, Mr. Youssef Boutros-Ghalli, Minister of Finance, Arab Republic of Egypt

10:00 – 10:15 hours      Election of the Bureau
10:15 –10:30 hours       Adoption of the draft agenda and programme of work

10:30 – 10:45 hours      Coffee/Tea Break

10:45 – 12:15 hours      Session I: Overview of recent economic and social developments in Africa

12:15 – 13:15 hours      Session II: Assessment of progress on regional integration in Africa

14:30 – 16:00 hours      Session III: Follow up to the last conferences

  • Follow up to the last session of ECA’s Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development: ECA Annual Report, 2009

  • Follow up to the last session of the AU Conference of Ministers of Economy and Finance (CAMEF )

16:00– 16:15 hours       Coffee/Tea Break

16:15 – 19:00 hours      Session IV: Follow-up to major decisions of the 2008 Joint Annual Meetings of the AUC and ECA

  • African Charter on Statistics

  • Climate change and development – Assessment of Copenhagen Conference

  • Review of progress towards achieving the MDGs in Africa

  • Report of the 9th Regional Consultation Mechanism of UN agencies working in Africa in support of the AU and its NEPAD programme

  • Presentation of the 2009 report on Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness (MRDE)

19:00 – 21:00 hours      Reception


Wednesday, 3 June

09:00 – 10:30 hours      Session IV (Continued): Follow-up to major decisions of the 2008 Joint Annual Meetings of the AUC and ECA

10:30 – 10:45 hours      Coffee/Tea Break

10:45 – 13:00 hours      Session V: Presentation and discussion on the theme of the Conference: Enhancing the effectiveness of fiscal policy for domestic resources mobilization

13:00 – 14:30 hours      Lunch Break

14:30 – 16:30 hours      Session V (Continued): Presentation and discussion on the theme of the Conference: Enhancing the effectiveness of fiscal policy for domestic resources mobilization

16:30 – 16:45 hours      Coffee/Tea Break

16:45 –18:00 hours       Session V (Continued): Presentation and discussion on the theme of the Conference: Enhancing the effectiveness of fiscal policy for domestic resources mobilization

 

Thursday, 4 June

09:00 – 10:30 hours      Session VI: Statutory issues

  • Presentation and consideration of the ECA Annual Report, 2009

  • Report of the fourth Conference of African Ministers of Integration

  • Report of the meeting of Legal and Finance Experts on the statutes of the proposed African Investment Bank

  • Implementation of the first Plan of Action of the Africa-EU Joint Strategy

  • Report of the recently launched Coalition for Dialogue on Africa (CODA)

  • ECA’s proposed programme of work and priorities for the biennium 2010-2011; and the proposed ECA Business Plan, 2010-2012

  • Consideration of the report of the first Congress of African Economists on Regional Integration

  • ECA’s report on the repositioning of the African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP))

10:30 – 10:45 hours      Coffee/Tea Break

10:45 – 12:30 hours      Session VI (Continued): Statutory issues

12:30 – 13:00 hours      Any other business

13:00 – 14:30 hours      Lunch Break

14:30 – 21:00 hours      Preparation of the draft report by the secretariat

 

Friday June 5

16:00 – 18:00 hours      Session VII: Consideration and adoption of the draft report of the Committee of Experts and draft resolutions

18:00 – 18:30 hours      Closing of the meeting

        • Closing remarks by Mr. Maxwell Mkwezalamba, AUC

        • Closing remarks by Mr. Abdoulie Janneh, ECA

        • Wrap-up by the Chairperson of the Bureau of the Committee of Experts

 

                                      Finalization of the report by the secretariat