Forum 2010 Program

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

• 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

• 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

• 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 

• 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

• Promoting Youth Development Through Life Skills

• 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 

• Building a Constituency for Sustainable Social Change Using Creative Communication Strategies
  
• NGOs and Private Security: Can They Coexist?

• 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)