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Sixth Sustainable Development Conference 11-13 December, Holiday
Inn, Islamabad
Conference Programme
Day
One l Day Two l Day
Three
| Friday, December 12, 2003 Day Two |
| Concurrent Session A-1 (Panel I)
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9:00 am – 10:45 am |
| National Environmental Quality Standards (NEQS)
Implementation in Pakistan for Industrial Pollution Control
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| Chair |
Dr Parvez Hassan, Chairman NEQS Implementation Committee,
Pakistan |
| Speaker |
Title |
| Syed Ayub Qutub (Pakistan) |
Prospects and Pitfalls of Liberalizing Environmental Services
under WTO/GATS: A Way Forward for NEQS: Implementation in Pakistan? |
| Azher Uddin Khan (Pakistan) |
Past, Present and Future of NEQS Implementation in Pakistan
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| Irfan S Alrai (Pakistan) |
Environmental Quality Standards and its Application in Developing
Countries |
| Dr. Noman Qadir, PEPA, (Pakistan) |
Comments |
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Discussion |
| TEA |
10:45 am – 11:15 am |
| Concurrent Session B-1 Panel I |
9:00 am – 10:45 pm |
| Alternative Realities: The Voice and Role of
Fiction Writers |
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| Chair |
Muneeza Shamsie, Writer and Critic |
| Speaker |
Title |
| Arshad H Bhatti (Pakistan) |
Literature and Development |
| Kiran Nazir Ahmad, (SDPI, Pakistan) |
Voice of Dissent in Urdu Popular Fiction |
| Maniza Naqvi (Novelist, Pakistan) |
Owning our Stories |
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Discussion |
| TEA |
10:45 am – 11:15 pm |
| Concurrent Session C-1 |
9:00 am – 10:45 am |
| Farmers Rights Program: Impact of Globalization
on Lives and Livelihoods of the HKH Communities |
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| Chair |
Ratnakar Adhikari, Nepal |
| Speaker |
Title |
| Gopichand Krishna Sedhain (Nepal) |
Case Study from Nepal |
| Avanthi Weerasinghe (Sri Lanka) |
Case Study from Sri Lanka |
| Rizwana Syeda (Bangladesh) |
Case Study from Bangladesh |
| Dr. Abid Q. Suleri/Qasim Shah (SDPI, Pakistan) |
Case Study from Pakistan |
| Mita Dutta (India) |
Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Seed: A Case Study
of Himalayan Region in India |
| Dr Abid Suleri (SDPI, Pakistan) |
Comments |
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Discussion |
| TEA |
10:45 am – 11:15 am |
| Concurrent Session A-2 (Panel II) |
11:15 – 1:00 pm |
| National Environment Quality Standards (NEQS)
Implementation in South Asian Region for Industrial Pollution
Control |
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| Chair |
Asif Shujah Khan, DG Pak EPA, Pakistan |
| Speaker |
Title |
| Mahmood A Khwaja (SDPI, Pakistan) |
Regulating Industrial Pollution Control Through Effective
Collaboration of Policy Makers, Universities, Research and Development
Organizations and Industry |
| Rita Pandey (India) |
Estimating Sectoral and Geographical Industrial Pollution
Inventories in India: Implications for Using Effluent Charge
versus Regulations |
| Ram Charitra Sah (Nepal) |
Compliance Monitoring of Industrial Effluent Standards in
Nepal |
| Saiful Islam (Bangladesh) |
Environmental Protection and Pollution Control in Industrial
Development as a Requirement for Sustainable Development in
Developing Countries: Evidence from Bangladesh |
| Engg. Asif Shujah Khan (DG Pak EPA, Pakistan) |
Comments |
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Discussion |
| LUNCH |
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm |
| Concurrent Session B-2 Panel II |
11:15 am – 1:00 pm |
| Alternative Realities: The Voice and Role of
Fiction Writers |
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| Chair |
Maniza Naqvi, Novelist |
| Speaker |
Title |
| Uzma Aslam Khan (Novelist, Pakistan) |
Does Fiction Matter? |
| Muneeza Shamsie (Writer and Critic) |
Connecting North and South: The South Asian English Novel |
| Kiran Nazir Ahmad (SDPI, Pakistan) |
Comments |
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Discussion |
| LUNCH |
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm |
| Concurrent Session C-2 |
11:15 am – 1:00 pm |
| Labour Policy in South Asia |
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| Chair |
Khwaja Ejaz Sarwar, Secretary Labour, Ministry of Labour and
Manpower, Pakistan |
| Speaker |
Title |
| Karamat Ali (Pakistan) |
Labor Policy in South Asia: the case of Pakistan (tentative) |
| Shirin Naher (Bangladesh) |
Awaited Role of Labor Policy and its Impact on Women Workers:
An agenda for Dialogue in Bangladesh |
| Shirin Akhtar (Bangladesh) |
Awaited |
| Halina Ward (IISD, UK) |
Comments |
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Discussion |
| LUNCH |
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm |
| Concurrent Session A-3 |
2:30 pm – 3:45 pm |
| Resource Rights and Sustainable Livelihoods |
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| Chair |
Mr. Bashir A. Wani, IG Forests Ministry of Environment |
| Speaker |
Title |
| Adil Najam (USA) |
The Human Dimensions of Environmental Insecurity: Some Insights
from South Asia |
| Dr Shaheen Rafi Khan and Shahbaz Bokhari (SDPI,
Pakistan) |
Sustainable Livelihoods, Environmental Security and Conflict
Mitigation: A Case Study of Pakistan's Dir-Kohistan Forests |
| Mehmood Cheema (Pakistan) |
Mitigating Insecurity: Experience of ERNP-Dir Kohistan Sub-Project |
| Kimberly Vilar, IIED, Argentina |
International Institute for Environment and Development –
South America |
| Kimberly Vilar (Argentina) |
The Role of NGOs as a Research Producer |
| Fahd Ali and Dr Shaheen Rafi Khan (SDPI, Pakistan) |
The Potential Impact of TBT and SPS Measures on Pakistan's
Fisheries |
| Dr P K Viswanathan (India) |
Plantation Induced Agrarian Transition in North East India:
Towards a Sustainable Policy Perspective |
| Sana Ullah Khan, Dir-Kohistan ERNP, (Pakistan) |
Comments |
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Discussion |
| TEA |
3:45 pm – 4:15 pm |
| Concurrent Session B-3 |
2:30 pm – 3:45 pm |
| Child Labour and the Informal Economy: Issues
and Solutions Organizer |
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| Chair |
Johannes Lokollo, Country Director, ILO, Pakistan |
| Speaker |
Title |
| Shahbaz Bokhari (SDPI, Pakistan) |
A Rapid Assessment of Scavengers in Pakistan |
| Shyma Salgado (Sri Lanka) |
The National Approach to Eliminate the Worst Forms of child
Labour - the Sri Lanka Experience |
| M Saifullah Chaudhry (Pakistan) |
Worst Forms of Child Labour: A situation analysis of Six Hazardous
Sectors |
| Tracey Rizvi (Pakistan) |
Legal Aspects of Child Labour in Pakistan |
| Zulfiqar Ali Gondal (Pakistan) |
Comments |
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Discussion |
| TEA |
3:45 pm – 4:15 pm |
| Concurrent Session C-3 |
2:30 pm – 3:45 pm |
| Population, Health and Poverty |
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| Chair |
Dr. Majeed Rajput (Chief, National Health Policy, Ministry
of Health) |
| Speaker |
Title |
| Dr W G Somaratne (Sri Lanka) |
Gender and Development in South Asia: A Comparative Analysis |
| Dr Eaisha Tareen (UK) |
From "Thinking too much" to "Extinguishing
of the heart" _ the case for Qualitative research in Social
and Health Policy Planning |
| Dr Mohan Rao (India) |
The Globalization of Reproductive Rights: A Derivative Discourse? |
| Prof. Dr. Mehtab Karim (Dept. Of Community Health Sciences,
AKU) |
Comments |
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Discussion |
| TEA |
3:45 pm – 4:15 pm |
| Concurrent Session A-4 |
4:15 pm – 6:00 pm |
| Natural Resource Management |
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| Chair |
Shamsul Mulk, Chairman Board of Governors, SDPI |
| Speaker |
Title |
| Nazir Mehmud, (Pakistan) (confirmation awaited) |
Fresh Water Cotton Initiative |
| Dr. Waqar Jehangir (Pakistan) |
Water Resources Management for Sustainable Agricultural Productivity:
Issues and Challenges |
| Babar Shahbaz (SDPI, Pakistan) |
Impact of Devolution of Power on Natural Resource Management |
| Urs Geiser (Switzerland) |
Does Decentralization induce Sustainable Natural Resource
Management – What are the Assumptions? |
| Faisal Shaheen (SDPI, Pakistan) |
The Evolution of Agriculture from Public Good to Private Asset |
| Raj Gupta (India) |
Awaited |
| Dr Ghulam Akbar, WWF (Pakistan) |
Comments |
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Discussion |
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| Concurrent Session B-4 |
4:15 pm – 6:00 pm |
| Women Workers and the Changing Labour Markets |
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| Chair |
Ch Manzoor Ahmad, MNA |
| Speaker |
Title |
| Dr Ely Ercelawn (Pakistan) |
Women at Work in Bondage: Unfree Labour in Pakistan |
| Mashuda Khatun Shefali (Bangladesh) |
Women Workers in MFA to ATC Era: Empowerment Under Threat |
| Gloria Desilva (Sri Lanka) |
Women Workers And Changing Labour Markets |
| Dr. Rehana Siddiqui (Pakistan) |
Comments |
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Discussion |
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| Concurrent Session C-4 |
4:15 pm - 6:00 pm |
| Population, Environment and Development |
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| Chair |
Dr. Mushtaq A. Khan (CRPRID) |
| Speaker |
Title |
| Shaheen Attiqur Rehman (Pakistan) |
Gender: Impact of Quality Education & Early Childhood
Education |
| Dr Shafqat Shehzad (SDPI, Pakistan) |
How can Pakistan reduce infant and child mortality rates?
A decomposition analysis |
| Abdul Qadir Rafiq (Pakistan) |
Poverty-Environment Nexus in the Context of Institutional
Framework in Pakistan |
| Ali Abbas Qazilbash and Mohsin Babbar (SDPI, Pakistan) |
Factors associated with Increased Suicides among Pakistani
Youth: a case study of 366 attempted suicides in Sindh |
| Shahnaz Wazir Ali, Executive Director PCP, (Pakistan) |
Comments |
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Discussion |
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