Ninth Meeting, Brussels 2008
Ninth Meeting
The ninth membership meeting took place in Brussels, Belgium on May 22-23, 2008. Hosted by the European Commission, the meeting focused on four broad themes:
- Europe’s role in furthering the Coalition’s strategy
- Engaging the Coalition’s growing membership
- New findings from the Working Groups
- Assuring the Coalition’s financial sustainability
Resources
- Logistics sheet
- Agenda
- Participant list
- Overview of new members
- Biographies of speakers
- Breakout group guidelines
- Meeting minutes
- Executive Committee summary
Thursday, May 22
- Welcome – Dominique Dellicour
- Since Washington – John Skibiak
- Financing of development assistance – Vicky Claes
- European Commission work – Antoinette Gosses
- The European Council – Renate Baehr and Karen Hoehn
- Working with the European Parliament – Neil Datta
- European bilateral perspective – Felicity Daly
- European bilateral perspective (2) – An Huybrechts
- The new Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation RH strategy – Susan Rich (forthcoming)
- An expanded Coalition membership – Steve Kinzett
Friday, May 23
- Market Development Approaches WG – Ben Light
- Systems Strengthening WG update – Alan Bornbusch
- Resource Mobilization and Awareness WG – Mercedes Mas de Xaxas
- Minimum Volume Guarantee and Pledge Guarantee mechanisms – Daniella Ballou-Aares
- Sustaining our work – John Skibiak