Opening Statements

• Dr Paavo Väyrynen, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development, Finland [English]
• Hamidon Ali, President of ECOSOC [English]
• Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary-General, UNDESA  [English]

Presentations 
The symposium featured a number of presentations to facilitate discussions.  Below please find presentations and written statements submitted:

Session 1: Keeping a development focus: the challenges in ensuring policy coherence for development

• Policy Coherence in the Context of Conflict and Fragility – Keeping a Development Focus: The challenges in ensuring policy coherence for development, Emilia Pires, Minister of Finance, Timor-Leste
• Policy Coherence for Development: Recent Developments from a Donor Perspective, Frederik Haver Droeze, Deputy Director, Policy Coherence for Development Unit, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands
• Statement by Supachai Panichpakdi, Secretary-General, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
• Keeping a Development Focus: The Challenges in Ensuring Policy Coherence for Development: Uganda’s Perspective, Pius Bigirimana, Permanent Secretary, Prime Minister’s Office, Uganda (Statement)
• PCD and Development Effectiveness, Antonio Tujan, jr., International Director and Research Director of IBON Foundation, Co-Chair of Better Aid

Session 2: Working together towards the internationally agreed development goals: the role of Foundations, Civil Society Organizations and decentralized development cooperation

• Global Partnerships: Are we there yet? Amir Dossal, United Nations Office for Partnerships
• Presentation by Prof. Klaus Leisinger, President, Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development
• Elham Palestine, Prof. Marwan Awartani, Chairman, Arab Foundations Forum

Session 3: Accountable and equal partnerships in development cooperation: national experiences and next steps

• Nikhil Seth, Director, Office for ECOSOC Support and Coordination, UNDESA (forthcoming)
• Hold one another accountable: Experience of Afghanistan, Mustafa Mastoor, Deputy Minister of Finance, Afghanistan
• Bijon Kumar Baishya, Joint Secretary (Coordination), Economic Relations Division, Ministry of Finance, Bangladesh presented the recently signed Joint Cooperation Strategy
• Statement by Justin Hien, Director of Coordination and Effectiveness of Public Development Aid, Burkina Faso

Session 4: The impact of development cooperation in reaching the MDGs on gender equality: Challenges and solutions

• The Impact of Development Cooperation in Reaching MDG 3: Hon. Mrs. Nurhayati Ali Assegaf, Vice Chairperson of the Committee for Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation, Member of Parliament, Indonesia
• Joanne Sandler, Deputy Executive Director, UNIFEM
• The Impact of Development Cooperation in Reaching MDGs: Regina Karega, Chair, National Commission on Gender and Development, Kenya
• Grace Bediako, Chief Statistician, Ghana Statistical Services
• Statement by Natalia Cardona, Social Watch International Secretariat, Uruguay, Member of the Women's Working Group on Financing for Development
• Statement by Jon Lomoy, Director, Development Cooperation Directorate, OECD

Closing Statement

• Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary-General, UNDESA  [English]

Other Documents

• FundHer Brief 2008
• FundHer Research Update Brief 1: Trends in Bilateral and Multilateral Funding
• FundHer Research Update - Context and Trends Influencing the Funding Landscape for Gender Equality and Women’s Organizations & Movements
• 10 Sub-Regional Briefs: The Impact of the crisis on Women’s Rights                                                                                                                                                                                     

Source: http://www.un.org/en/ecosoc/newfunct/dcfhelsinki10.shtml