INTER-AMERICAN INITIATIVE ON SOCIAL CAPITAL, ETHICS AND DEVELOPMENT

Schedule:

Interamerican Development Bank	Honduras Government	Norway Government

Sponsored by:

Centroamerican Bank for Economic Integration

WORKING PLAN:

The meeting will take place during three days. The first two days will consist of a public coloquia dedicated to the analysis of central matters in the regional priorities agenda for ethical challenges. The main presentations will be given by well-known personalities. The third day will be dedicated to the Ethics and Development Network Centers Planning meeting, hosted by the IADB and the Norwegian Government,

The basic program to be developed is as follows:

Saturday September 1st, 2001

05:30 p.m. Inauguration

• Mr. Carlos Flores President of Honduras
• Monsignor Oscar Rodríguez Madariaga, Honduras Cardinal,
• Mr. Enrique V. Iglesias, IADB President
• Mrs. Sigrun Mogedal, Norway Secretary of State for Development

Sunday September 2nd

08:30 a.m. Presentation on the Meeting goals and the Ethics and Development Program

• Mr. Carlos Ferdinand, IADB Secretary
• Mr. Helge Semb, IADB Honduras Representative
• Mr. Bernardo Kliksberg, Coordinator of the Inter-American Social Capital, Ethics and Development Initiative

Part I Open Ethical challenges

09:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

Panel 1 Re-examining the relations between Ethics and Economy

Moderator: Lionel Y. Nicol, Division Chief Social Programs, Region 2 (IADB)

Speakers:

• Astrid Fischel, Costa Rica Vice-President
• Father Fernando Montes, Dean of the University Padre Hurtado of Chile
• Benedicte Bull Center for Development and the Environment, Oslo University, Norway
• Bernardo Kliksberg, IADB

11:15 a.m. to 01: 15 p.m.

Panel 2 Ethical Challenges in the fields of education, health and environment

Moderator: Mr. Pablo Shneider, BCIE President Demetrio Cojti Cuxil, Vice-Minister of Education of Guatemala

Speakers:

• Ana Belén Castillo, Director of the Univeristy Nacional de Honduras
• Eduardo Valdéz Barria, Director of the University Centroamericana, Nicaragua
• Maria Teresa Szauer, Director of Sustainable Development, (CAF)
• Jose Sulbrandt, UN, IADB Cinsultant, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile

2: 30 p.m. to 04: 30 p.m.

Panel 3 Ethical Challenges in the family, childhood, and ethnical groups and Human Rights field

Moderator: Demetrio Cojti Cuxil, Vice-Minister of Education of Guatemala

Speakers:

• Mia Harbitz, Division Specialist of Social Programs, Region 2 IADB
• Claudio Grossman, Dean of the Washington College of Law, American University
• David Crocker, President of the International Association of Ethics and Development, Maryland University
• Bruce Harris, Casa Alianza Director
• Father Javier Sanin, S.J, Universidad Javeriana, Colombia

5:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Ethics and Development Network Centers Meeting

Monday, September 3rdnd, 2001

Part II Undertaking responsibilities

09: 30 a.m. to 11: 30 a.m.

Panel 1 The role of the public sector, the private business and the civil society

Moderator: Jorge Sapoznikow, Chief of the Government and Civil Society Division, Region 2 (IADB)

Speakers:

• Elio Alvarenga, Dean of the Universidad Católica de Honduras
• Jorge Nieto Menendez, Labor Minister of El Salvador
• Carlos Anibal Degrossi, Dean of the Economic Sciences Department Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Bianor Scelza Cavalcanti, Director of the School of Public Administration, Fundación Getulio Vargas
• Padre Luis Ugalde, S.J. Director of the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB

2:00 p.m. to 4: 00 p.m.

Panel 2 Strengthening the culture of solidarity

Moderator: Alba Tejada de Role, Panama Family Minister

Speakers:

• Maria del Carmen Pardo, Colegio de Mexico
• Saúl Sosnowsky, Maryland University
• Father Luis Ugalde, S.J. Dean of the Universidad Catolica Andres Bello (UCAB), Caracas, Venezuela
• Margarita Maria Errazuriz, Director of the Project "Pluralism, Society and Democracy", Fundacion Felipe Herrera, Chile
• Edy Kaufman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Truman Center for the advancement of Peace, Israel

4:00 p.m. Conclusions Briefing by the Meeting Coordinator, Mr. Bernardo Kliksberg

4: 30 p.m. Public Conference Closing session

Carlos Ferdinand (IADB)

Gustavo Alfaro, Minister of the Presidency Honduras

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