DRAFT!

ECA Transport Retreat August 27/28, 2002

Invitees:

ECSIE Transport unit, ECSIE Director, Representatives of ECA VP, PSI VP, ECA Country Units and Country Teams, ECSIE Sector Managers, Transport Thematic Group Leaders, DEC, ED-s representing some key ECA countries, Maryvonne Plessis-Fraissard, peer reviewer of the ECA Transport Strategy Paper.

Objectives:

  • Strengthening the “Transport” contribution in the ECA’s poverty reduction and economic growth agenda
  • Business development, ECA Transport Strategy must lead to a work program ‘with critical mass’
  • Organizational improvements and streamlining of our internal work processes
  • Team building

Location: World Bank, IFC building, Conference room 8- P100,

2121 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC

Please Note:

The ECA Transport Knowledge Management Group will meet on August 26, 2002.
Day 1, August 27, 2002

How can we improve our efficiency and work better together?

Building a Positive Work Environment Part 1

8:30 - 9:00Breakfast

9:00 - 9:30Introduction by Ms. Eva Molnar

9:30 - 9:45Ms. Victoria Simons, Sr. Human Resources Officer:

Building a Positive Work Environment.

Coffee Break will be flexible

10:00 - 12:00Building a Positive Work Environment in Working Groups

12:00-1:15Lunch - Keynote Speaker: Mr. Hossein Razavi
12:30Mr. Hossein Razavi, Director ECSIE: ECSIE’s role in ECA in general and the importance of ‘Transport’ within the socio-economic development framework in ECA

Building a Positive Work Environment Part 2

1:30 – 4:30Working Group Reports: Discussion, Challenges and Opportunities

4:30 – 5:00Floor opened for Messrs. Hossein Razavi, Director ECSIE and Eva Molnar, Transport Sector Manager

7:00 – 10:00Boat trip on “The Odyssey”

Day 2, August 28, 2002

Introduction

8:30 – 9:00 Breakfast

9:00 – 9:30Ms. Eva Molnar, Sector Manager: Introduction to the ECA Transport Strategy

9:30-10:00Mr. Shigeo Katsu: Director ECAVP, Poverty reduction and Economic growth, but where does ECA/Transport exactly fit in?

10:00 – 10:30Mr. Uri Dadush, Director, DEC/Development Prospect Group

10:30 – 11:00Executive Directors Panel

Mr. Alexey Kvasov, ED Russian Federation

Mr. Pieter Stek, ED Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Georgia, Israel, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Netherlands, Romania, Ukraine

Mr. Jerzy Hylewski, Alternate ED Azerbaijan, Kyrgyz Republic, Poland, Switzerland, Tajikstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

11:00 – 11:15Ms. Eva Molnar: ECA Transport Strategy: Changes in our focus

12:00-1:30 Lunch – Keynote Speakers: Ms. Cheena Trikha, MIGA

and Mr. Ravinder Bugga, IFC.

12:30Lunch presentations

ECA Partnerships within the World Bank Group
MIGA: Ms. Cheena Trikha, MIGGU

IFC: Mr. Ravinder Bugga, CINDI

ECA Transport Strategy: Sub Regional and Country Specific Issues

1:30- 6:30 Presentations of 10 minutes in 60-minute sessions with a strategic view on the future. The following items will be covered:

Country Assistance Strategy/PRSP/CEM/CER

Economic Sector Work

Multi-donor co-operation (EBRD, EIB, EU, bilaterals, etc)

Cross and multi sectoral opportunities

WB Instruments for future work

1:30 – 2:30 South Caucasus: Antti Talvitie, Chairman

Gerald Ollivier and Gevorg Sargsyan, Spokesmen

2:30 - 3:30 Central Asia: Michel Zarnowiecki, Chairman

Oleg Borovikov, Spokesman

3:30 –4:30 SEE: Michel Audige, Chairman

Jean-Charles Crochet and Artan Guxho, Spokesmen

4:30 – 5:30 Russia/Belarus/Ukraine/MoldovaRichard Podolske, Chairman

Robin Carruthers, Ben Eijbergen

and Anca Dumitrescu, Spokesmen

5:30 – 6:30 Turkey and the EU Accession Countries [“The CEC-10” ]:

Cesar Queiroz, Chairman

Elena Kastlerova and Robert Kietlinski, Spokesmen

6:30Wrap up, Ms. Eva Molnar

7:00‘Back to Work’ Reception

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