Welcome sandwich lunch

OPENING CEREMONY

Welcome remarks:

• Margrit Hugentobler, Coordinator Ekta Europe
• Rajagopal PV, President and Founder of Ekta Parishad, India
• Caroline Morel, Director, Swissaid

Keynote addresses:

• Olivier de Schutter, UN Rapporteur on the Right to Food – video message
• Flavio Valente, Secretary General, FIAN (Food Information Action Network)

Facilitator: Jill Carr-Harris, Coordinator of Advocacy and Public Policy, Ekta Parishad

Speakers:

• Jean Feyder, Ambassador of the Permanent Mission of Luxembourg to the UN, Geneva
• Nadjirou Sall, Deputy Secretary General CNCR (National Council for Concertation and Cooperation of the Rurals), ROPPA (Network of West African Peasant Organisations and Agricultural Producers)
• Karima Delli, Member of the European Parliament
• Christian Comeliau, Development economist

Questions and discussion

Facilitator: Aye Aye Win, Former Executive Director and Founder, Dignity International

Speakers:

• Rajagopal PV, President and Founder, Ekta Parishad, India
• Melik Ozden, Co-director of CETIM (Europe-Third World Centre )
• Madiodio Niasse, Director, International Land Coalition Secretariat
• Maria Salete Carollo, Representative of MST (Landless Workers’ Movement)
• María Chavez Quispe, Consultant for the indigenous peoples programme, World Council of Churches

Questions and discussion

In ‘Mohan Se Mahatma’ Gauri is illustrating through the medium of dance some of the key episodes in Gandhiji’s life which were crucial in his transformation from a common man to a Mahatma (great soul). Through precise gestures, facial expressions and movement in unison with music, she succeeds in making his life visible and vivid for the audience. Since 1996 Gauri has performed this dance drama more than 750 times in different parts of the world.

Facilitator: Margrit Hugentobler

Keynote speech: Rehana Riyawala, SEWA (Self-Employment Women’s Association, India)

Speakers:

• Manual Montes, Chief Economist, UNDESA (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs)
  
• Patrick Hohmann, Director and Founder, Remei AG
• Laurent Muratet, Director for Marketing and Communications, Alter Eco

Questions and discussion

Facilitator: Alan Leather, Board Member, Action Village India, UK

Panel discussion:

• Nadia Saracini, Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer, Christian Aid, UK
• Sarah Mader, Desk Officer for India and Myanmar, Swissaid
• Ruchi Tripathi, Head of the Right to Food, Action Aid
• Stefan Germann, Director for Partnerships & Research, Global Health and WASH team, World Vision
• Manfred Kaufmann, Programme Manager SDC (Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation)
  
• Duncan Pruett, Land Rights Advisor, Oxfam International
  

Questions and discussion

Presentation of the mobilisation agenda: P. V. Rajagopal

Facilitator: Fintan Farrel, Director of the European Anti Poverty Network

Introductory remarks:

• Thea Gelbspan, Coordinator of the Social Movement Working Group, ESCR net (Economical, Social and Cultural Rights net)
• Corina Van der Laan, Strategic Policy Advisor to the Human Rights, Gender, Good Governance and Humanitarian Aid Department of the MFA, Netherlands Government
  
• Sue Longley, IUF (International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations)

WS 2: Resource mobilisation

Facilitator: Jill Carr-Harris

Introductory remarks:

• Michel Baumann, Ekta Parishad Geneva Support Group
• Duncan Pruett, Land Rights Advisor, Oxfam International
• Ester Wolf, Development Policies, Bread For All
• Danish Government, Representative
  

Presentation of action plans by workshop reporters. Discussion and adoption of the mobilization agenda Aye Aye Win and Alan Leather

• Rajagopal PV
• Margrit Hugentobler