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SOCIAL PROTECTION

IN AN INSECURE ERA

A South-South Exchange

On

Alternative Social Policy Responses

To Globalization

14-17 May 2002

Santiago, Chile

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

This inter-regional workshop is organized by UNDP-Chile. It is co-sponsored by the Chilean Ministry of the Presidency and the following Chilean policy-research centres and universities: Centro de Estudios para el Desarrollo (CED), Centro de Estudios Nacionales de Desarrollo Alternativo (CENDA), Corporación Investigaciones Económicas para Latinoamérica (CIEPLAN), Fundación Chile 21, Fundación Nacional para la Superación de la Pobreza, Instituto Libertad, Programa Economía del Trabajo (PET), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Universidad Arcis, Universidad Austral (Valdivia), Universidad de Chile, Universidad de Concepción, Universidad de La Frontera (Temuco), Universidad de Santiago y Universidad de Talca.

Its organization was made possible thanks to support from the Ford Foundation, the OSDE Foundation (Argentina) and UNDP’s Special Unit for Technical Cooperation Among Developing Countries, and to the collaboration of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

 

Tuesday 14 May

 

8:30 &nbsp 9 9:30

 

9:30   11:00

Registration

 

Opening Session

 

*       Chaiperson: Cosmas Gitta, SU/TCDC, UNDP, New York

*       Eugenio Ortega , UNDP Under-Resident Representative in Chile

*       Rodolfo González, Chairman, OSDE Foundation, Argentina

*       Gonzalo Martner, Under-Secretary of the Presidency, Chile

 

11:00 &nbsp 11: 11:30

Coffee Break

 

11:30   11:45

 

 

 

11:45   13:30

 

Presentation of the workshop's objectives and expected outcomes

 

*        Manuel Riesco, Director, School of Economics, Universidad ARCIS/CENDA, Chile

*        Jaime Ruiz-Tagle, Senior Consultant, Secretary of the Presidency, Chile. general workshop session director.

 

First Session: "Social Protection in a Globalized World: A New Social Contract on the Agenda?"

*        Chairperson: Francisco Durán, Vice-Minister of Social Development, Ministry of Health and Social Development, Venezuela

 

Keynote address:

*        Guy Standing, Director, In-Focus Programme on Socio-Economic Security, International Labour Office, ILO, Geneva

 

Panel Discussion:

*        Huck-ju Kwon, Research Coordinator, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, UNRISD, Geneva

*        Barbara Stallings, Director of the Economic Development Division of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, ECLAC

*        Viviene Taylor, Deputy Executive Director, Commission on Human Security, New York

 

Discussion

 

13:30 &nbsp 15: 15:00

Lunch Break

 

15:00   16:30

 

Second Session: "Mercosur/Chile after the liberal experience in Latin America: rebuilding a welfare state for the new world?"

*        Chairperson: Eduardo Suplicy, Senator, Brazil

 

Panel Discussion:

*        Sonia Draibe, University of Campinas, UCAMP, Brazil

*        Alberto Barbeito, Centro Interdisciplinario para el Estudio de Políticas Públicas, CIEPP, Argentina

*        José Quijano, Director, Consultora Alianza Cooperativa Internacional, ACI, Uruguay

16:30 &nbsp 17: 17:00

Coffee Break

17:00 – 18:00

Second Session (continued)

Discussion

 

*        Manuel Riesco, Director, School of Economics, Universidad ARCIS/CENDA, Chile

*        Antonio Floriano Pesaro, National Secretary, Programme Bolsa Escola, Brazil

20:30

Dinner hosted by the organizers

 

Wednesday 15 May

 

 

9:00 ∞ 11: 11:30

 

Third Session: "Asia: Social Protection after the Recent Crisis"

*        Chairperson: Huck-ju Kwon, UNRISD, Geneva

 

Panel Discussion:

*        Neung-Hoo Park, Director, Department of Social Security Research, Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA), Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Republic of Korea

*        Filomeno III Sta. Ana, Social Watch and Asia Coordinator, Action for Economic Reforms, Philippines

*        Liu Yutong, Social Security Specialist, Ministry of Labour and Social Security, China

 

11:30 ∞ 12: 12:00

Coffee Break

 

12:00 ∞ 14: 14:30

 

 

 

 

 

 

*        Sudano Sumarto, The SMERU Research Institute, Jakarta, Indonesia

*        Y.M. Raja Dato Zaharaton, Deputy Director-General, Economic Planning Unit, Prime Minister' s Department, Malaysia

 

Discussion

 

14:30 ∞ 16: 16:00

Lunch Break

 

16:00 ∞ 17: 17:30

 

Fifth Session: "Arab States and Africa: Social Protection in Turbulent Times"

*        Chairperson: Cosmas Gitta, Outreach Adviser of the Special Unit for Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries (SU/TCDC), UNDP, New York

 

Panel Discussion:

*        George Kossaifi, Chief Human Development Section, UN Economic and Social Commission for West Asia (ESCWA), Beirut

*        Lambert Gbossa, Deputy Director, ILO Regional Office for Africa, Abidjan, Ivory Coast

*        Joseph Ewane Ejuba, Director, Regional Office for Africa, International Social Security Association (ISSA), Abidjan, Ivory Coast

 

Discussion

 

 

19:30

 

 

Reception hosted by UNDP

Thursday 16 May

 

 

9:00 ∞ 11: 11:30

 

Sixth Session: Working Groups on Some Basic Components of a New Agenda for Social Protection

 

  1. A new social contract in the making for countries in the South?

      Chaired by Sonia Draibe, University of Campinas, Brazil

  1. New levels required in overall social budgeting?

Chaired by Barbara Stallings, Director of the Economic Development Division of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, ECLAC

  1. From privatization to public-private collaboration for Social Protection?

Chaired by María del Carmen Feijoó,  Executive Secretary, National Council for Social Policies Coordination of the Presidency, Argentina

 

11:30 ∞ 12: 12:00

Coffee Break

 

12:00 ∞ 14: 14:00

 

Closing Session: Plenary, Workgroup Reports and General Discussion

*        Chairperson: Sergei Zelenev, Chief, Social Analysis and Policy Unit, Division for Social Policy and Development, DESA, UN, New York

 

Reports from working groups and discussion

 

Closing remarks:

*        Thierry Lemaresquier, UNDP Resident Representative, in Chile

 

14:30

Closing Lunch

 

16:00 ∞ 17: 17:30

 

Special Session: Social Protection in Chile

*        Chairperson: Thierry Lemaresquier, UNDP Resident Representative, in Chile  

Panel: Summary of workshop' s main conclusions

*        Viviene Taylor, Deputy Executive Director, Commission on Human Security, New York

*        Barbara Stallings, Director of the Economic Development Division of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, ECLAC

*        Huck-ju Kwon, Research Coordinator, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, UNRISD, Geneva

17:30 ∞ 18: 18:00

Coffee Break

 

18:00 ∞ 19: 19:30

 

Special Session (continued)

 

Panel: Views from Academy, Business and Social Organizations

*        Clarisa Hardy, Executive Director, Fundación Chile 21, Santiago

*        Hugo Fazio, Director, Centre for National Development Alternative Studies, CENDA, Chile

*        Sergio Micco, Director, Centre for Development Studies, CED, Chile

*        Juan Ignacio Silva , Chairman, Cámara Chilena de la Construcción

*        Jorge Millán , President, Social Comission, Central Unica de Trabajadores, CUT, Chile

 

Discussion

 

19:30 ∞ 2 20:30

 

Cocktail offered by OSDE Foundation

 

Friday 17 May

 

 

10:00 ∞ 11: 11:30

 

Public Session dedicated to Mercosur/Chile

*        Chairperson: Rodolfo González, Chairman, OSDE Foundation

*         

Summary of workshop' s main conclusions

*        Thierry Lemaresquier, Resident Representative, UNDP, Chile

*        Sonia Draibe, University of Campinas, Brazil

*        Alberto Barbeito, Centro Interdisciplinario para el Estudio de Polí ticas Públicas, CIEPP, Argentina

*       

*        Manuel Riesco, Director, School of Economics, Universidad ARCIS/CENDA, Chile

 

11:30 ∞ 12: 12:00

Coffee Break

 

12:00 ∞ 13: 13:30

 

Public Session (continued)

 

 

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Manuel Riesco,
Aug 24, 2012, 4:25 PM
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