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Financial Crisis and its impact on development cooperation ROUNDTABLE III, Budapest, Hungary
Date: 23-24 April 2009
Fostering Global Responsibility
Building a Development Policy Knowledge Network to Enhance
NGO Public Outreach Initiatives in EU New Member States Find here the report: Report round table III - Budapest Find here the presentations: Global crisis and its impact on development countries - Joanna Siwinska Financial crisis in the New Independent States (NIS) countries: its possible impact and challenges for development - Petru Veverita, CASE Moldova Challenges for development Impact of the financial crisis to international development cooperation - Adam Kirchknopf The politics of Crisis: beyond orthodoxy - Gabor Scheiring G20 London Summit Outcomes Policy briefs workshop - Jeff Knezovich, ODI Evaluations Background The roundtable, which was held in Budapest, was part of the project led by CASE – Center for Social and Economic Research (http://www.case-research.eu/) and Overseas Development Institutute (ODI, http://www.odi.org.uk/) with the participation of the NGDO platforms from the Visegrad group (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, so called V4) and funded by the European Commission. The main objective of the project is to promote a greater understanding of the development challenges, to facilitate greater public support in New Member States for poverty reduction efforts and to contribute to more strategic and evidence-informed policy dialogue and engagement for international development issues. Introduction The primary topic of the first day was global economic crises and its impact on development policies on different level (national level both in donor and developing countries and regional, V4, level). This would be discussed through lectures and on a cross-sectoral roundtable. Invited participants of the first day are journalists, academics, governmental organisations and NGO representatives.
On the second day NGO participants have learned more about how to write policy brief in practice. Based on the information and articulated arguments around global economic crises and impacts on development cooperation on the first day, with the facilitation of ODI project partners and participating NGOs can outline a regional policy brief that can be further used in their own policy work and present it in the media. This event was co-financed by International Visegrad Fund (www.visegradfund.org) 
Objectives
- Provide an opportunity for NGDOs to engage with and discuss issues around the global economic crisis, its impact on the developing world and implications for development cooperation policy and implementation in Visegrad countries
- Identification policy focus of policy brief, develop a policy brief plan and develop outline
- Provide team members with an introduction to the principles/content of a good policy brief and the stages of developing a policy brief
- Provide team members with an introduction to the links between communication strategy and the production of policy briefs (highlighting issues raised in Warsaw roundtable)
Outcomes
Participants gained knowledge on global economic crises, its causes and impacts on development cooperation. Participants gained deeper understanding on different point of views: can share their ideas as donor organization, as media representative, as researcher and NGDOs. Participants gained practical knowledge how to write policy brief and will be able to use it in their advocacy work. Participants Representatives and members organizations of the national platforms of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia; NGDO representatives from the host country (Hungary); media representatives; educators; government representatives.
Agenda
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23th April, 2009, Budapest
9:00
REGISTRATION
9:30
Opening remarks
HAND
9:45
Global crisis and its impact on developing countries. The channels of contagion and possible consequences.
Joanna Siwinska
10:30
Discussion
Joanna Siwinska
11:00
COFFEE BREAK
11:15
Financial
crisis in the New Independent States (NIS) countries: its possible impact and challenges for development
Petru Veverita, CASE Moldova
12:00
Discussion
Petru Veverita, CASE Moldova
12:30
LUNCH
13:30
Roundtable discussion with Short (10 min long) inputs
moderator:
Daniel IZSÁK, ex-BBC journalist Participants: Hungarian Interchurch Aid, Protect The Future, Ministry for Foreign Affairs (HU), Ministry for National Development and Economy etc.
14:40
discussion/debate
15:40
COFFEE BREAK
15:55
interactive group excercise
16:55
Conclusion – Summary of the day one
24th April, 2009 (Open for NGOs only!) 9:30
REGISTRATION
9:45
RECAP and INTRODUCTION
Ajoy DATTA, ODI
10:00
Group exercise: Getting familiar with policy briefs. What are they? What are they good for? What do they look like? What do they contain?
Ajoy DATTA, Jeff KNEZOVICH
10:45
Presentation on policy briefs as a communication tool
Ajoy DATTA, Jeff KNEZOVICH
11:15
COFFEE BREAK
11:30
All group discussion: Finalising and agreeing main messages as well as brainstorming hooks
Jeff KNEZOVICH, ODI
12:15
Group exercise: Writing an introduction
Ajoy DATTA, Jeff KNEZOVICH
12:15
LUNCH
13:15
Group exercise: Choosing supporting evidence and brainstorming text boxes, charts, etc.
Ajoy DATTA, Jeff KNEZOVICH
14:15
COFFEE BREAK
14:30
Formatting policy briefs and opportunities for dissemination
Ajoy DATTA, Jeff KNEZOVICH
15:15
summary of day 2
Ajoy DATTA
15:45
presentation project
19:00
DINNER
This document has been produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The contents of this document are the sole responsibility of CASE and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the European Union. ............................................................... See also:
Events: RT I - Warsaw
Events: RT II - Prague
News: Outcome and presentations Roundtable II - EU elections
News: Outcome and presentations Round Table III - Financial Crisis and its impact on development cooperation
Publications: Round Table 3 outcome - Hungary’s International Development Co-operation Policy in time of crisis
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