WEDF 2004 Programme

The ITC Executive Forum on National Export Strategies

Competitiveness through Public–Private Partnership: Successes and Lessons Learned

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Programme

Montreux, Switzerland Programme in pdf version

6 – 29 September, 2004

Sunday, 26 September Opening
12:00 – 16:00	Registration
16:00 – 17:30	Welcome, Introductions and Rules of the Debate Mr. J. DenisBélisle, Executive Director, ITC Mr. Max Schnellmann, Deputy Head, Tradeand Clean Technology Cooperation,SECO Mr. Brian Barclay, Coordinator, ITC Executive Forum
17:30	Group Photograph
18:00	Reception
19:30	Welcome Dinner

Monday, 27 September The Challengeof Building an Effective Public-PrivatePartnership
8.30 – 10:30	Plenary Session1: The Ten Essential Elements of a Successful National Export Strategy
	Network Co-chair: Mr. Isaac Njoroge Principal Consultant AMC - ALMACO Management Consultants Ltd. Kenya	Co-chair: Mr. Joseph Smadja Deputy Executive Director ITC	Strategy Team Commentators: Mr. Juan CarlosMathews National Director of Foreign Trade Department Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism Peru Ms. Jacqueline Emmanuel- Albertine Emmanuel Financial Consultants Ltd. Saint Lucia
11:00–12:30	Plenary Session2: Sustaining the Public –PrivatePartnership: Constraints and Solutions
	Network Co-chair: Ms. Patricia Francis Chief Executive Officer JamaicaPromotions Corporation (JAMPRO)	Network Co-chair: Mr. Wajid Jawad Chairman Associated Garments Industries Pakistan Ltd Pakistan	Strategy Team Commentators: Mr. Femi Boyede Chief Executive Officer Koinonia Ventures Ltd. Nigeria Mr. Georgy G. Petrov Vice-President Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation
12:30–14:30	Lunch
14:30–16:00	Breakout Session A: Making Business Advocacy Work
	Network Co-chair: Mr. Renato Pleno Director Exporters Confederation of the Philippines Inc.	Network Co-chair: Mr. Joseph ZammitTabona Chairman Malta Enterprise	Strategy Team Commentators: Mr. Abdul Awal Mintoo President Federation of the Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industries Mr. Riaan Le Roux Director Export Department Trade and Investment South Africa (TISA)
	Breakout Session B: Does theAnswer Lie witha National ExportCouncil?
	Network Co-chair: Mr. Costin Lianu General Director Export Promotion Division Departmen t of Foreign Trade Romania	Network Co-chair: Mr. WolfgangZehender Senior Advisor Trade and Investment Promotion GTZ Germany	Strategy Team Commentators: Mr. SerafinN. Juliano Executive Director Garments and Textile Export Board Department of Trade and Industry Philippines Mr. Osei Boeh-Ocansey Chief Executive Private Enterprise Foundation Ghana

Monday, 27 September

The Challengeof Building an Effective Public-PrivatePartnership (continued)

14:30–16:00

Breakout SessionC: Coordinating the Partnership – What’sthe Role of the TPO?

Network Co-chair:

Mr. RicardoEstrada Estrada, Executive President

CORPEI Ecuador

Network Co-chair:

Mr. Halim Fuad Abu Rahmeh

Chief Executive Officer

Jordan Exporters Association

Strategy Team

Commentators: Mrs. FlorenceKata Executive Director

Uganda ExportDevelopment

Board

Mr. Karim Berrada

Vice-President

The MoroccanAssociation of

Exporters (ASMEX)

Breakout Session D: Financing the Partnership

Network Co-chair:

Ms. Christine Kilindu

Chief Executive Confederation of Tanzanian Industries

Co-chair:

Mr. Brian Barclay

Coordinator

ITC Executive Forum

Commentators:

Mr. Victor Angenscheidt

Executive Director Investment and Export Promotion Agency(Uruguay XXI)

Uruguay

16.30–18:00

Plenary Session3: The CriticalPartnership – The “Border Gear” of Export Strategy

Network Co-chair:

Mr. Jean E. Kubler

Deputy Chief

Global Trade Solutions

UN Economic Commission for

Europe (UNECE)

Switzerland

Co-chair:

Mr. Gian Piero Roz

Director

Division of Programme

Support

ITC

Commentators:

Mr. Jean E. Kubler

Global Trade Solutions

UN Economic Commission for

Europe (UNECE) Switzerland

Mr. Ravi Ratnayake

Director

Trade and Investment

Division

Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

Thailand

Tuesday, 28 September Focusing the Partnership

8:30 – 10:00	Plenary Session 4: Competitiveness through Export Clusters thatWork
	Network Co-chair: Mr. John Saegaert Coordinator Business Development Centre Chamber of Industries of Uruguay	Network Co-chair: Mrs. ChantraPurnariksha Director General Department of Export Promotion Ministry of Commerce Thailand	Commentators: Mr. A. Sakthivel Chairman Apparel Export Promotion Council India Mr. Fabio Russo Industrial Development Officer Small and Medium Enterprises Branch United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
10:30–12:30	Plenary Session5: The Need for a Sector-Level Orientation – What’sBest Practice?
	Network Co-chair: Mr. Sok Siphana Secretary of State for Commerce Cambodia	Co-chair: Mr. Peter Walters Director Division of Product and Market Development ITC	Strategy Team Commentators: Mr. Azim Mawji Director Afro LeatherLtd. Tanzania Mr. Isaac Njoroge Principal Consultant AMC - ALMACO ManagementConsultants Ltd. Kenya
12:30–14:30	Lunch
13.15–14.15	Informal Session: WhyPay Attention to South-South Trade?
14.30–16.00	Breakout Session E: Export ValueAddition through Integration of the Tourism, Entertainment andProduction Sectors
	Network Co-chair: Mr. LutherMiller, Director of Finance and Resource Management Caribbean Tourism Organization	Network Co-chair: Mr. José Carrión President Federation of Chamberof Tourism (FENACAPTUR) Ecuador	Strategy Team Commentators: Mrs VeniecePottinger Executive Director Services Sector Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO) Mr. Fabrice Leclercq Trade Promotion Adviser ITC

Tuesday, 28 September

Focusing the Partnership (continued)

14.30 – 16.00

Breakout Session F: Best Practice for an Export Strategy Focusing on the Services

Sector

Network Co-chair:

Mr. Rajendra Tagore

Servansingh

Deputy Secretary General Mauritius Chamberof Commerce and Industry

Co-chair:

Mr. RobertFournier Fournier Associates Canada

Strategy Team

Commentators:

Mr. George Sharkov

Chairman

Bulgarian Association of

Software Development

Companies (BASSCO)

Mr. Alwyn Didar Singh

Expert

e-Commerce and Trade

Development

Breakout Session G: Working from the Bottom Up – Export-led Poverty Reduction: What Works?

Network Co-chair:

Mr. Yuri Jenkins

Executive Secretary

Central American Association of Consultants in

International Trade

El Salvador

Co-chair:

Ms. Tamsyn Barton

Team Leader

(Trade and Development) Department for International Development

United Kingdom

Strategy Team

Commentators: Mr. Solomon Kuria Director

Department of External

Trade

Ministry of Trade and

Industry

Kenya

Ms. GabrielaByrde

Switzerland

Breakout Session H: The Gender Dimension – “Best Practice” Scenarios

Co-chair:

Ms. Mia Horn Af Rantzien

Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sweden to the WTO

Co- Chair

Ms. Lilia NaasHachem

Office for Africa Division of Technical Cooperation Coordination ITC

Strategy Team

Commentators:

Ms. Maria Baeva Vice-President Club of Women Entrepreneurs and Managers

Bulgaria

Mrs. Sarah Kitakule

President Uganda Women Entrepreneurs Association

16:30–18:00

Plenary Session 6: Review of Breakout Session Conclusions and Moderated Debate on Best Practice

Co- Chairs:

Mr. Wang Jinzhen,Deputy Director General, China Council for the Promotion of International

Trade (CCPIT)

Mr. Ramamurti Badrinath, Director, Division of Trade Support Services, ITC

Wednesday, 29 September: Assessing the Partnership
8.30-10:00	Plenary Session7: Review of Breakout Session Conc lusions and Moderated Debate on Best Practice
	Co- Chairs: Mr. Md. AminurRahman, Secretary, Ministry of Commerce, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh Mr. Hendrik Roelofsen, Director, Division of Technical Cooperation Coordination, ITC
10:30 – 12:00	Plenary Session8: Impact Measurement – Implications for Strategy and Trade – Related Technical Assistance
	Co-chair: Mr. Kiichiro Fukasaku Head OECD Development Centre Paris	Co-chair: Mr. Ton Lansink Managing Director Centre for thePromotion of Imports from Developing Countries (CBI) Netherlands	Commentators: Prof. Owen Skae School of Accounting and Finance University of KwaZula-Natal South Africa Mr. MurraySmith Director DMI Associates Switzerland
12:00–13:00	Plenary Session 9: Confirming the Ten Essential Elements of National ExportStrategy and Where Do We Go from Here?
	Co-chair: Mr. J. Denis Bélisle Executive Director ITC	Co-chair: Mr. Max Schnellmann Deputy Head, Trade and Clean Technology Cooperation SECO
13:00–13:15	Summary and Closing

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