PARIS HLF
IMPLEMENTATION FORUM

March 1, 2005

Final Plenary Session of the Implementation Forum:
From Opportunities to Action

Co-chairs:

• Mr. Michel Reveyrand, Chair of the OECD/DAC Working Party on Aid Effectiveness
  • Presentation:
    HLF2 : DU FORUM DE LA MISE EN ŒUVRE AU FORUM MINISTERIEL
    HLF2 : FROM IMPLEMENTATION TO MINISTERIAL MEETING
• M. Damoni Kitabire, Adviser, Ministry of Finance, Uganda

Objective: This final session shared and integrated the messages from each of the Roundtable discussions on implementation progress; constraints and opportunities, linked them to the draft Declaration; and identified the highlights—especially the key messages and their implications—to be communicated to the Ministerial Forum. One Co-chair of each of the six Roundtables will provided brief focused feedback from their concurrent Roundtables, focusing on the three most important conclusions on opportunities and actions going forward.

Roundtable Co-chairs and Discussants

1. Aligning with Country Priorities and Systems: Low and Middle Income Countries

Co-chairs:

• Mr. Pedro Couto (Mozambique)
• Mr. Stephano Manservisi (EC)

Discussants:

• Mr. Chhieng Yanara (Cambodia) - Presentation
• Mr. Mauricio Gomez Lacayo (Nicaragua)
• Mr. Luiz Awazu Pereira Da Silva (Brazil)
• Hideyuki Takahashi (JANIC)

2. Harmonising and Aligning Donor Support in Fragile States

Chair: Mr. Adrian Wood (UK)

Discussants:

• Mr. Ashraf Ghani (Afghanistan)
• Mr Fridtjov Thorkildsen (Norway)
• Jenni Marshall (Save the Children Fund UK)

3. Public Financial Management (PFM) and Procurement

Co-chairs:

• Mr. David Shand (JV-PFM/World Bank)
• Mr. Micheal Lawrance (Canada)

Discussants:

• Mr. Ismail Zabihullah
• Mr. Muhammad Abdul Mazid
• Mr. Akm Fazlul Karim (Bangladesh) - Presentation
• Ms. Kathleen Moktan (Asian Development Bank)
• Mr. Duong Duc Ung (Vietnam) - Presentation
• Mr. Hiroto Arakawa (Japan) - Presentation
• Ms. Agatha Gaisie-Nketsiah
• Mr. Kwesi Abbey-Sam (Ghana) - Presentation

4. Managing for Development Results

Chair: Mr. Joan Boer (JV-MfDR/Netherlands)

Discussants:

• Guy Razafindralambo (Madagascar) - Presentation
• Peter Ssentongo (Uganda) - Presentation

Rapporteurs:

• Mr. Bruce Purdue (JV MfDR/Asian Development Bank)
• Ms. Susan Stout (World Bank)

5. Integrating Global Initiatives into Coherent Country Programs

Chair:

• Mr. Jean-Louis Sarbib (World Bank)

Discussants:

• Mr. Francis Omaswa (Uganda)
• Mr. Peter Piot (UNAIDS)
• Mr. Julian Lob-Levyt, (GAVI)
• Mr. Saifur Rahman, (Bangladesh)
• Mr. William Chong Wong, (Honduras)
• Mr. Mark Dybul (PEPFAR)
• Mr. Geoffrey Lamb, (World Bank)
• Mr. Richard Feachem (GFATM)
• Mr. Bjørn Skogmo, (Norway)
• Mr. Abhimanyu Singh (UNESCO)
• Ms. Stephanie Blair Sachs (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation)

6. Unleashing and Strengthening Capacities in Partner and Donor Countries

Co-chairs:

• M. Jean-Baptiste M.P. Compaore (Burkina Faso)
• Mr. I. Tomimoto, DAC Working Party-Aid Effectiveness/Japan)

Discussants:

• Mr. Andreas Proksch (LenCD/Germany) - Presentation
• M. Mohamed Nouri Jouini (Tunisia)
• Mr Adrian Civici (Albania)
• Mr. Rolando Tungpalan (Philippines)
• Mr. Mohamed Soumare (ENDA-Senegal)
• Mr Philibert Afrika (African Development Bank) - Presentation
• Ms. Joyce Mapunjo (Tanzania)