2009 HIGH-LEVEL SEGMENT

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Date: - Location: GENEVA

 

Programme

 

STATEMENTS

Monday, 6 July


Opening addresses

Keynote addresses

Lead speaker 

Guest speakers

Policy messages from Annual Ministerial Review preparatory meetings 
Special Event Philanthropy and the global public health agenda, New York, 23 February 2009

South Asia Regional Meeting Financing strategies for health care, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 16-18 March 2009

Asia and Pacific Regional Meeting Promoting Health literacy, Beijing, China, 29-30 April 2009

Western Asia Regional Meeting Preventing and controlling non-communicable disease, Doha, Qatar, 10-11 May 2009

  • Abdullah bin Khalid Al-Qahtani, Minister of Health of Qatar (Arabic)

Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Meeting Progress in reduction of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and its interconnection with development, Jamaica, 5-6 June 2009

Africa Regional Meeting eHealth – use of information and communication technologies for health, Accra, Ghana, 10-11 June 2009

                                                           
Afternoon session 

High-level policy dialogue with the international financial and trade institutions on current developments in the world economy

Presentation on Global Jobs Pact

Partnerships in health –lessons from multi-stakeholder initiatives   

  • Michel Sidibé, Executive Director, UNAIDS
  • Philippe Douste-Blazy, Special Advisor on Innovative Financing for Development and Chair of the Board of UNITAID
  • Michel Kazatchkine, Executive Director, Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria
  • Awa Marie Coll-Seck, Executive Director, Roll Back Malaria Partnership
  • Marcos Espinal, Executive Secretary of the Stop TB Partnership
  • Natalia Imbruglia, Spokesperson for the Campaign to End Fistula

Tuesday, 7 July

Introduction of the report of the Secretary-General on the Annual Ministerial Review

National presentations

Bolivia

China

Afternoon session 

National presentations

Japan

Jamaica

Mali

Wednesday, 8 July

National presentations

Sri Lanka

  • Sarath Amunugama, Minister of Public Administration and Internal Affairs and Deputy Minister of Finance and Planning

Sudan

Special event on Africa and LDCs      

  • Sylvie Lucas, President of ECOSOC (Co-Chairs)
  • Cheick Sidi Diarra, Under-Secretary-General, Special Advisor on Africa & High Representative for LDCs, LLDCs, SIDSs
  • Daisy Mafubelu, Assistant Director-General, Family and Community Health, World Health Organization (Moderator)
  • Ponmek Dalaloy, Minister of Health, Laos
  • George Spia-Adjah Yankey, Minister of Health, Ghana
  • Klaus Leisinger, President and Executive Director, Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development
  • Francis Omaswa, Executive Director, African Center for Global Health and Social Transformation                          
  • Mike Boyd, Acting Director General, IFPMA
  • Michel Kazatchkine, Executive Director, the Global Fund  

Afternoon session

Introduction of the report of the Secretary-General on the thematic discussion Current global and national trends and their impact on social development, including public health

General debate of the High-level Segment

Thursday, 9 July

Morning session 

  • General debate of the High-level Segment (parallel with thematic roundtable)

Member States

Observer

Thematic roundtable Social trends and emerging challenges and their impact on public health: renewing our commitment to the vulnerable in a time of crisis

  • Sylvie Lucas, President of ECOSOC (Chair)
  • Anna Tibaijuka, Executive Director, UN-Habitat (Moderator)
  • Richard Newfarmer, Special Representative of the World Bank to the UN and WTO, Geneva
  • Carissa Etienne, Assistant-Director-General, Health Systems and Services, WHO
  • Assane Diop, Executive Director, Social Protection and Employment, ILO
  • Alberto Palloni, Professor of Demography and International Studies Northwestern University 
  • Manuel Carballo, Executive Director, International Council on Migration and Health
  • Marcia Metcalfe, Global Manager, Microfinance and Health Protection Initiative, Freedom from Hunger (presentation)
  • Peter Waldorff, General Secretary, Public Service International
  • Janet Asherson, Advisor, Environment, Safety and Health, International Organization of Employers

Afternoon session

  • General debate of the High-level Segment (parallel with thematic roundtable)

Thematic roundtable Trends in aid and aid effectiveness in the health sector

  • Sylvie Lucas, President of ECOSOC (Chair and moderator)
  • Olivier Kamitatu Etsu, Minister of Planning, Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Anders Nordström, Director-General of Sida, Sweden
  • Eckhard Deutscher, Chair, OECD/DAC
  • Luis Riera Figueras, Director for Development Policy, Directorate General for Development and Relations with the ACP States, European Commission
  • Francisco Songane, former Minister of Health, Mozambique, former Director of The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
  • Helen Evans, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, GAVI Alliance
  • Marta Monteso Cullell, Coordinator, Action for Global Health
  • Adoption of the Ministerial Declaration and closing of the High-level Segment

POLICY DIALOGUE

The High-Level Policy Dialogue with the Heads of International Financial and Trade Institutions (World Bank, IMF, UNCTAD and WTO) [6 July 2009]), focused on major developments in the world economy and international economic cooperation.

The event was moderated by Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs Mr. Sha Zukang, and featured representatives of UNCTAD, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

Documentation

For more information, please contact the Policy Coordination Branch, Office of ECOSOC Support and Coordination at ecosocinfo@un.org 

THEMATIC DEBATE

The 2009 thematic debate focused on “Current global and national trends and their impact on social development, including health”. In addition to the plenary debate, two parallel roundtable dialogues took place on various aspects of the theme.

Panel 1: “Social trends and emerging challenges and their impact on public health: Renewing our commitment to the vulnerable in a time of crisis”, 9 July 2009, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm (Summary)

The roundtable focused on the effects of recent macroeconomic trends on employment, social cohesion, on public spending in social areas and on malnutrition and health challenges.  With regard to longer-term demographic trends, the dialogue addressed the issues of changing age structure, urbanization and migration and their impact on public health.

Panel 2: “Trends in aid and aid effectiveness in the health sector”, 9 July 2009, 3:00-5:35 pm (Summary)

The roundtable focused on the recent trends in aid to the health sector, the effects of recent financial crisis on the emerging aid architecture in the sector and how aid coordination mechanisms, including the Paris Declaration, can have a positive impact on health outcomes for the poorest and most vulnerable.

For further information please contact Ms. Leslie Wade, Chief, ECOSOC and Interorganizational Cooperation Branch, Office of ECOSOC Support and Coordination at @email

Informal Summaries - High-level Segment

Thematic Debate

DOCUMENTATION

(a) High-level policy dialogue with international financial and trade institutions

  • World Economic and Social Survey, 2009:  Promoting Development, Saving the Planet:  Overview (E/2009/50)
  • World Economic Situation and Prospects as of mid-2009 (E/2009/73)

(b) Annual ministerial review: "Implementing the internationally agreed goals and commitments in regard to global public health"

  • Report of the Secretary-General on the theme of the annual ministerial review: implementing the internationally agreed goals and commitments in regard to global public health (E/2009/81)
  • World Economic and Social Survey, 2009: overview (E/2009/50)
  • World economic situation and prospects, as of mid-2009 (E/2009/73)
  • Relevant part of the report of the Committee for Development Policy on its eleventh session (E/2009/33)
  • Relevant part of the report of the Secretary-General on regional cooperation (E/2009/15 and addenda)
  • Statement submitted by the international association IUS PRIMI VIRI, a non-governmental organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (E/2009/NGO/12)
  • Statement submitted by Organisation mondiale des associations pour l’éducation prenatale, a non-governmental organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (E/2009/NGO/14)
  • Statement submitted by All India Shah Behram Baug Society for Scientific and Educational Research, a non-governmental organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (E/2009/NGO/15)
  • Statement submitted by American Psychological Association; International Association of Applied Psychology; International Association of Schools of Social Work; International Council of Psychologists; International Federation of Social Workers; International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies; International Union of Psychological Science; Soroptomist International; World Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation; World Council for Psychotherapy; World Federation for Mental Health; and Zonta International, non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (E/2009/NGO/16)

(c) Thematic discussion: "Current global and national trends and their impact on social development, including public health"

  • Report of the Secretary-General on the theme of the 2009 high-level segment of the Economic and Social Council:  Current global and national trends and their impact on social development, including public health (E/2009/53)
  • World Economic and Social Survey, 2009: overview (E/2009/50)
  • World economic situation and prospects, as of mid-2009 (E/2009/73)
  • Relevant part of the report of the Committee for Development Policy on its eleventh session (E/2009/33)
  • Relevant part of the report of the Secretary-General on regional cooperation in the economic, social and related fields (E/2009/15 and addenda)

Side Events