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Scaling Up Poverty Reduction: A Global
Learning Process, and Conference in Shanghai,
May 25-27, 2004
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LIVE Conference Session Webcasts Coming Soon ¨C As the conference unfolds in Shanghai, the World Bank will be providing LIVE webcasts of its opening, closing and plenary sessions through B-SPAN. The first Live session will be available for viewing on Tuesday, May 25th 20:30 EST (Shanghai time: +12). B-Span will stream these sessions for high and low speed access in English. Webcasts will be continuously updated with live sessions as they happen while past sessions will be archived to view on demand. If you are unable to view the live webcast sessions, they will be available along with other conference sessions, via the B-Span archive library following the conference. To view the Live Sessions please click here. A link to the archived sessions will be provided soon.
Heads of State to Launch Conference Program
Presidents Lula of Brazil, Mkapa of Tanzania, Museveni of Uganda, and Prime Minister Zia of Bangladesh will participate in the conference presenting statements in the opening session. The conference will bring together other key development actors to share their experiences and lessons learned from poverty reduction initiatives around the world during two days of analysis and knowledge sharing. Starting on May 26th, the conference will open with welcoming remarks and speeches on scaling up poverty reduction by Mr. James D. Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank, heads of states from several developing countries; and other prominent government officials. During the two days, a series of plenary sessions will feature international development experts as they assess various country experiences on scaling up poverty reduction. An array of thematic cases will be analyzed during parallel sessions covering topics such as investment climate, access to services, microfinance, infrastructure, transportation, and others. Final outcomes of the conference will be presented by Mr. Wolfensohn; the Vice President of China and the Chinese Minister of Finance. For an overview of the conference¡¯s agenda please click
here. For a more detailed version click here.
Yes, we can scale up! With one hundred case studies from around the world the Shanghai conference opens up a platform for sharing knowledge and building the capacity to scale up successful poverty reduction initiatives. These case studies reflect the multidimensional aspects of poverty and cover the different stages of the development process. Together they offer rich lessons about the importance of political commitment, institutional innovation, learning and experimentation, and external catalysts, and more. The conference agenda is built around interactive discussions of many of these case studies. Read more about the cases and the scaling up process in Frannie Leautier's
statement. For an overview of all case studies please click
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Shanghai Poverty Conference Media - Never before has a poverty conference enjoyed so much attention from national and international media. More than 200 international and Chinese journalists have registered to cover the event. In addition, 15 developing country journalists will attend as conference participants. A press tour of Canadian, US, European and Australian journalists is now under way to selected case study sites and will end at the conference. Plenary Sessions including speeches by prominent development professionals will be webcast for viewing on this website. The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) will provide conference content via AsiaSat4, which will become available to broadcasters across the Asia-Pacific region. Content will include the Opening and Closing sessions, video footage of case studies to be discussed at the conference, media interviews with World Bank President James Wolfensohn and others, as well as eleven case study videos.
 Creating a Community of Learning -From November 2003 to date, authors, practitioners, policy makers and representatives from academia and civil society have been discussing drafts of the case studies prepared for the conference in a series of facilitated Global Dialogues. Held through the World Bank's Global Development Learning Network, GDLN, the dialogues took place via on-line discussions and multicountry videoconferencing. These discussions allowed authors of case studies to have their hypothesis on scaling up tested among their peers. In every dialogue, two case studies from the same thematic sector but from different countries were discussed in an effort to identify common elements as well as differences. So far, a total of 18 dialogues have been completed, covering a sample of some 45 case studies, in 20 countries. Connecting this number and range of development actors from around the globe using leading-edge information and communication technologies has never before been attempted. To see the Global Dialogues organized by theme please click here. Case study presentations are available in print on each dialogue page. Most dialogues are also available for viewing in their entirety on our site.
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Adding a Human Element - In parallel with the Global Dialogues, 11 field visits to case study sites enriched the learning process, adding a human dimension through interviews and dialogues among experts, beneficiaries, and other stakeholders. Since December 2003, international development experts have visited successful project sites in Indonesia, Uganda, India, Bangladesh, Yemen, China, Brazil and Turkey. The purpose of the
field visits was to identify best practices for scaling up poverty reduction programs, and to convey important messages to the World Bank and its development partners about the design and implementation of successful large-scale programs. Field visit outputs have been fed back into the relevant case studies; and draft executive summaries of the field visit case studies are available on the corresponding field visit pages. In addition, each field visit page provides lessons learned and observations from field visit participants, as well as interactive videoconference discussions comparing and contrasting cases with similar objectives but from different countries.
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To view the following sessions live from Shanghai, click here. All times are U.S. Eastern Standard Time
Tuesday, May 25
Opening Session 8:30pm
Plenary Session 1 11:30pm
Plenary Session 2 12:00am
Wednesday, May 26
Plenary Session 3 4:00am
Plenary Session 4 5:15am
Plenary Session 5 11:00pm
Thursday, May 27
Plenary Session 5 4:30am Closing Session 5:30am
If you cannot link to live webcasts, the sessions will be archived within a few hours after their completion, at both high and low speed.
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