Forum 2010


 

Wednesday, June 2

8:00am- 9:45am Registration & Networking
9:45am- 11:15am A New Direction for US Foreign Assistance
10:00am- 12:00pm Opening Plenary: A New Direction for U.S. Foreign Assistance

Is there a new wind blowing for the future of official relief and development assistance? How do the three Ds of U.S. foreign policy, Defense, Diplomacy, and Development, measure up under the Obama administration, and what does this mean for the partnership role of NGOs in both fragile states and longer-term development settings? What will become of the beleaguered U.S. Agency for International Development? What are we trying to achieve through official U.S. foreign assistance and what are the best legislative and institutional structures to reach these goals?

Speakers:
Rajiv Shah, Administrator, United States Agency for International Development Representative
Gerald E. Connolly, U.S. House of Representatives (VA-11)
Melanne Verveer, Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues, Department of State
Anne Marie Slaughter, Director of Policy Planning, U.S. State Department (Moderator)
Ruth Messinger, CEO, American Jewish World Service

11:15am- 12:00pm Conversation with Robert Zoellick, President, The World Bank Group
12:00pm-12:30pm BREAK
12:30pm-1:30pm Networking Luncheon
Member CEO Only Luncheon with Gayle E. Smith
(Member CEOs Only)
Speaker: Gayle Smith, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director at the National Security Council
1:45pm-3:15pm  Workshops
  • Introduction to AudienceScapes - Must-Use Knowledge Resource for Development Professionals
  • Role of Private Foundations in the New Private Development  Assistance (PDA) Movement/Revolution (CEOs Only)
  • mSurvey-Global Datamapping
  • Caring for NGO Staff After a Disaster
  • Promoting Women’s Political Participation in South Asia: Afghanistan, Nepal, and India
  • Distinctive Faith-Based Operational Approaches in Relief and Development: Case Studies from Islamic and Christian Agencies     
  • Managing Two Critical Risk Areas for Overseas Operations: Taxations of American Expatriates and Global Insurance
  • Working Together to Fight Poverty and Meet the Millennium Development Goals
3:30pm-5:00pm America’s Ambassadors? The NGO role in Public Diplomacy
5:00pm-8:00pm Exhibit Hours, Happy Hour & Networking
Thursday, June 3
8:00am-9:45am  Engaging Men and Boys: Partners in Achieving Gender Equality
9:00am-11:30am  Humanitarian Policy and Practice Committee Business Meeting
9:45am-10:00am  BREAK
10:00am-11:40am  Workshops
  • Senior Leaders Promote Gender Integration: Improving
  • Improving Organizational Efficiency Through Gender Audits 
  • InterAction CTO/CIO Council Roundtable
  • Private Development Assistance(PDA) and the Millennium Development Goals (CEOs Only)
  • Capacity Building Models for Field Staff
  • Meeting the Challenge of Multiple Accountabilities
  • Capitalizing on Convergence: Collaboration Among Development, Environmental and Human Rights NGOs
  • Making Change Processes Accessible to Stakeholder to Support Your Champions, Build Your Constituencies and Scale up Impact

 

11:40am-12:00 noon  BREAK
12:00 noon- 2:00pm The Kojo Nnamdi Show: Live from InterAction's Forum
Part I - MDGs - 2015 & Beyond
Part II -
 Hunger as a Development Priority
2:00pm-4:00pm Exhibit Hours & Artisan Trade Fair
3:45pm-5:00pm Workshops
  • Open data for International Development Monitoring and Evaluation
  • Conversation with InterAction President & CEO, Sam Worthington (Member CEOs Only)
  • Different Needs, Equal Opportunities: Integrating Gender into Humanitarian Response
  • PVO Standards: Leading the Way for NGO Accountability in a Changing World
  • Budget Appropriations 101: Theory and Messy Reality 
4:00pm-6:30pm Workshops
  • Security: Cash Management Policies that Save Lives
  • Foreign Assistance Reform Update: Prospects and Implications (4:00-6:00pm)
  • Disaster Risk Reduction in Urban Settings
  • Urban Risk, Shelter and Reconstruction: Challenges and Opportunities
5:15pm-6:30pm  Workshops
  • Images of the South in Northern Publications: Ethical Photography and Related Issues Concerning Representation
  • The Power of Mapping for Increasing Transparency, Building Partnerships and Improving Coordination
  • Annual Members Meeting (Member CEOs)
  • The “Whole of Agency” Approach to Addressing Sexual Exploitation and Abuse

  • Promoting Youth Development Through Life Skills
6:30pm-7:30pm Gala Reception
7:30pm-10:00pm Gala Dinner & Awards Banquet
Friday, June 4  
8:00am-10:30am Breakfast, Exhibit Hours & Artisan Trade Fair
9:45am-11:15am  Workshops
  • We are All Systems Thinkers Now: Development Leadership in an Interconnected World (CEOs Only)
  • Can We Really Apply Development Principles in Practice?
  • Current Issues in Civil Military Relations
  • The Primary Objectives of USAID's Procurement & Implementation Reform
  • Preventing Corruption in Humanitarian Operations: Good Practice Tools for NGOs
  • Breaking Down Barriers: Encouraging Greater Learning on Accountability Between the Non-Profit, Corporate and Public Secotrs
  • The Successes and Challenges of Integrating Health and Education in Relief and Development: A Case Study of a School Health and Nutrition Program 
10:30pm-12:30pm Workshops
  • Building a Constituency for Sustainable Social Change Using Creative Communication Strategies
  • NGOs and Private Security: Can They Coexist?

 

11:30am-1:00pm Workshops
  • Inclusive Foreign Assistance: Bringing Marginalized Voices to the Table
  • Mapping the Haiti Earthquake: Open Geospatial Data and Transnational Social Collaboration
  • What's at Stake at the Intersection of Climate Change and Food Security? Impacts, Risk and Opportunities for Small-Holder Farmers
  • NGO Coordination: Working Tegether After a Disaster
  • Clusters: Coordination Out of Chaos? How the Cluster System Has Changed Humanitarian Response
  • Linking Generations, Strengthening Communities: Innovative Family Programs
  • Defining A New Business Model: A Discussion of the "Overhead Squeeze"(CEOs and CFOs only)
12:45pm-1:00pm BREAK
1:00pm-3:00pm Haiti - The Way Forward
3:00pm-4:00pm Networking