DAY ONE: 10 December 2007

Welcome Address and Introduction (9:00 am to 10:45 am)
Dr. Abid Qaiyum Suleri
Executive Director (Interim), SDPI, Pakistan

Remarks and book launch by the Chief Guest

Title of the Book: Missing Links in Sustainable Development: South Asian Perspectives

Keynote Plenary: Mr. Shoaib Sultan Khan, Chairman, National Rural Support Program (NRSP), Pakistan
Plenary Title: Poverty Reduction through Social Mobilization: Strategy and Challenges

PANELS (11:00 am to 5:00 pm)

• Development Interventions and the Poverty-Environment Nexus (Session: I)
• Bridging the Subcontinent’s Gender Digital Divide
• Common History in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
• ABS: Addressing the Livelihood Concerns of the Farming Communities?

PANELS (10:30 am to 5:00 pm)

• Whose Right to Land?
• Disaster Management in the South Asian Context: Impact, Lessons and Institutional Dynamics
• Reducing or Inducing Risk: Gender and Migration in South Asia
• Rewriting History
• Domestic Preparedness: The Challenges of Trade Liberalization and Globalization

Keynote Plenary (9.00 am to 10.30 am): Dr. Vandana Shiva, Physicist, Ecological Campaigner, Women's Rights Activist and Writer, India
Plenary Title: Soil not Oil

PANELS (11:00 am to 5:00 pm)

• Sustainable Solutions in the Health Sector (Session I)
• Ignored Producers: Women's Role in South Asian Agriculture
• Regoverning Markets: Sharing Innovative Practices and Policy Lessons
• Development Interventions and the Poverty-Environment Nexus (Session: II)
• Sustainable Solutions in Health Sector (Session: II)

Concluding Keynote Plenary (5:15 pm to 6:30 pm): Mr. Syed Babar Ali, Vice President Emeritus, World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) and Former Minister of Finance, Economic Affairs and Planning, Government of Pakistan, Pakistan
Plenary Title: Business, CSR and the Environment

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Students are especially encouraged to attend.

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