March 17, 2014 (Monday)

9:00-9:10 Opening Session

Chair: Dr. Ye Qing, Assistant President, SIIS

Speakers:

Prof. Chen Dongxiao, President, SIIS

Prof. Adebayo Olukoshi, Director, IDEP, UNECA

9:10-10:20 Session I: How China and Africa View Post-2015 Agenda?

Chair: Dr. Ye Qing, Assistant President, SIIS

Topics:

With the heating of discussions about the post-2015 agenda, both China and Africa put forward their policy positions,

1. What are the main concerns behind the policy positions? What are the main differences in compare with for example, the HLP report, the SDSN report, or the EU position?

2. Given the debates about post-MDG and SDG under the umbrella of post-2015 agenda, what set of goals does China and/or Africa prefer to?

3. What are the similarities and differences between the positions of China and Africa? Where are the rooms for building China-Africa consensus in regard to the post-2015 agenda?

Speakers :

Prof. Adebayo Olukoshi

Mr. Dossina Yeo

Mr. Steven Sabey

Prof. Huang Meibo

10:40-12:00 Section II: Building China-Africa Consensus 1:

Poverty Eradication and Inequality

Topics:

While great achievements, poverty is still one of the most prominent challenges for international development,

1. Should we insist in the poverty reduction goals set 15 years ago? Or should we update this goal by for example, setting the poverty line at 3 USD/day but not 1.25 USD/day, or setting a zero goal for 2013 with poverty line of 1.25 USD/day?

2. Should we add positive growth goals into, especially reducing inequality, the new set of goals? How to balance poverty reduction and inequality reduce goals?

3. What goals (if possible targets and even indicators) should China and Africa jointly advocate in the process of building the post-2015 agenda?

Chair: Prof. Adebayo Olukoshi, Director, IDEP, UNECA

Speakers :

Prof. He Changchui

Dr. Bartholomew Armah

Prof. Wang Yihuan

Mr. Adegboyega Ajani

13:30-15:00 Section III. Building China-Africa Consensus 2

Environmental and Social Inclusive Growth

Topics:

To achieve development effectiveness, the international community now calls for combining both negative growth (poverty reduction) and positive growth (sustainable development) together,

1. While almost nobody against environmental sustainability, what and how could China and Africa build common goals and targets in this regard? How to deal with the nexus of for example, water-energy-poverty?

2. Given the different context in China and Africa, what kind of common agenda should China and Africa build in terms of social inclusive growth?

3. How should China and Africa facilitate for example, education cooperation, technical transfer, governance experience exchange, etc., for promoting environmental and social inclusive growth of both parties?

Chair: Prof. Sun Xinzhang, MoST

Speakers :

Prof. Kenneth King

Prof. Yu Hongyuan

Dr. Sven Grimm

Dr. Ye Yu

15:20-17:00 Section IV. Building China-Africa Consensus 3

Peace and Security

Topics:

Peace and security is one of the premise of development, however, it’s difficult to be measured by indicators,

1. Should we turn peace and security into operational goals, targets, and indicators under the post-2015 agenda framework, or only need to be security-sensitive when setting the post-2015 agenda?

2. Should we focus more on the external elements of peace and security, namely international peace and security, of this dimension, or on the internal ones for example peaceful society, effective/good governance? How could we balance these external and internal aspects of peace and security under the post-2015 agenda?

Chair: Mr. Takwa Zebulon Suifon, Peace and Security Department, AU

Speakers :

Ms. Antonia N’Gabala-Sodonon

Amb. Ochieng Adala

Dr. Wang Xuejun

Mr. Thomas Wheeler

Mr. He Yin



March 18, 2014 (Tuesday)

9:00-10:15 Section V. Building China-Africa Consensus 4

Implementation and Global Partnership

Topics:

The UN call for a “new global partnership” for replacing “global partnership” under the MDGs (MDG 8); meanwhile, the 18th CPC National Congress proposed “new type of global development partnership”,

1. How will it look like as to this “new global partnership”? What will be the similarities and differences in compare with the MDG8?

2. What are the roles of south-south cooperation in this “new global partnership”? How to balance the relationship between south-south cooperation and south-north cooperation? What’s the principle of “common but differentiated responsibility”, especially when talking about the financial framework for supporting the post-2015 agenda?

3. Is it welcomed to combine the calls of UN “new global partnership” and Chinese “new type of global development partnership” together? If yes, how and what can China and Africa jointly do?

Chair: Prof. He Changchui, Beijing University

Speakers :

Prof. Sun Xinzhang

Mr. Neissan Alessandro Besharati

Ms. Mao Xiaojing

Dr. Jia Ying

10:30-11:50 Section VI. The 6th FOCAC and Post-2015 Agenda

Topics:

The 6th FOCAC conference will be held in 2015 in South Africa, it’s high time for China and Africa to internalize the post-2015 agenda through the FOCAC framework,

1. As a part of a broad global effort, what kind of relationship should we have between the FOCAC and the post-2015 agenda? How to link the FOCAC with broader global development efforts?

2. Should the FOCAC set a longer-term goal system other than 3 years in the past? How could China and Africa decompose the post-2015 agenda into small steps for joint and concrete action plan?

3. If there are some desirable goals will not be set by the post-2015 agenda, should China and Africa jointly develop some best practice, for example, the “Initiative on China-Africa Cooperative Partnership for Peace and Security” (ICACPPS) proposed at the 5th FOCAC conference?

Chair: Dr. Sven Grimm, Director, CCS

Speakers :

Prof. Ye Jiang

Mr. Harrie Esterhuyse

Dr. Zhang Chun

Mr. Richard Smith

11:50-12:00 Close Session

Chair: Sven Grimm, Director, CCS

Speakers:

Mr. Thomas Wheeler

Dr. Zhang Chun  

Participants

International Participants

Amb. Ochieng Adala, Executive Director, African Peace Forum, Kenya

Mr. Adegboyega Ajani, Industrial Development Officer, UNIDO

Dr. Bartholomew Armah, Chief Renewal of Planning Section, Macro-Policy Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)

Mr. Neissan Alessandro Besharati, Project Manager / Research Associate, South African Institute of International Affairs, South Africa

Mr. Harrie Esterhuyse, Center for China Studies, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Dr. Sven Grimm, Director, Center for China Studies, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Prof. Kenneth King, Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh, UK

Ms. Anna Moeller Loswick, Policy Officer, Saferworld

Ms. Selamawit Mussie, Policy Officer, Economic Affairs Department, African Union Commission

Ms. Antonia N'Gabala-Sodonon, Coordinator for the Gender, Peace & Security Programme, African Union (AU)

Prof. Adebayo Olukoshi, Director, African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP), UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)

Ms. Shelley Elizabeth Ranii, Centre for International Cooperation, New York University, USA

Mr. Steven Sabey, Deputy Country Director, United Nations Development Programme in China

Mr. Richard Melville Smith, ACTION for Conflict Transformation Support Centre, South Africa

Mr. Takwa Zebulon Suifon, Expert, Post Conflict Reconstruction and Development (PCRD) Unit, Conflict Management Division (CMD), African Union (AU)

Mr. Gyekye Tanoh, Head of the Political Economy Unit, Third World Network-Africa

Mr. Dossina Yeo, Policy Officer, Economic Affairs Department, African Union Commission

Mr. Thomas Wheeler, Policy Advisor, Saferworld

Ms. Zhang Hui, Policy Officer, Saferworld

 

Chinese Participants

Prof. He Changchui, Beijing University, Former Deputy Director-General, UNFAO

Prof. Sun Xinzhang, The Administrative Centre for China’s Agenda 21, Ministry of Science and Technology

Prof. Wang Yihuan, Assistant Dean, College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricultural University

Prof. Huang Meibo, Deputy Director, World Economy Research Center, Xiamen University

Chen Sheng, First-secretary, Department of West Asian and African Affairs, MOFCOM

Ms. Mao Xiaojing, Division Chief, Associate Research Fellow, Division of International Cooperation, Institute of International Development Cooperation, Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation (CAITEC), MOFCOM

Dr. Wang Xuejun, Associate Professor, Institute of African Studies, Zhejiang Normal University

Han Bo, Vice President, South-South Global Assets and Technology Exchange

He Yin, Associate Professor, China Peacekeeping Police Training Center, Chinese People's Armed Police Forces Academy

Dr. Jia Ying, Save the Children, China

Yu Miao, Official, Department of West Asian and African Affairs, MOFCOM

 

SIIS Participants

Prof. Chen Dongxiao, President, SIIS

Dr. Ye Qing, Associate Professor, Assistant President, SIIS

Prof. Ye Jiang, Executive Director, Institute for Global Governance, SIIS

Prof. Yu Hongyuan, Deputy Director, Institute for Comparative Politics and Public Policy, SIIS

Dr. Zhang Chun, Associate Professor, Deputy Director of Center for West Asian and African Studies, SIIS

Dr. Ye Yu, Assistant Director, Institute for World Economic, SIIS

Dr. Zhu Ming, Center for West Asian and African Studies, SIIS

Dr. Zhou Yuyuan, Center for West Asian and African Studies, SIIS