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Agenda

Tuesday, 12 November

9:00 - 10:00 am	Welcome and Update on ADB Activities (B. Prakash, S. Lateef)
10:00 - 12:00 noon	Update on Meetings with RM Gender Specialists and DANIDA (P. Licuanan) Admin. Issues (including rotation, funding, future activities - S. Lateef) EFG Planning Session (planning of group work based on work program*)
12:00 - 2:00 pm	Lunch
2:00 - 4:00 pm	Seminar on Gender Issues in Post-Conflict Reconstruction
4:00 - 5:00 pm	EFG Working Session (group work)

Wednesday, 13 November

9:00 - 10:00 am	EFG Working Session cont'd (group work)
10:00 - 12:00 noon	Meeting with J. van Heeswijk, Dir. Gen., RSDD Meeting with C. Maccormac, Dir., SPPI
12:00 - 2:00 pm	Lunch
2:00 - 4:00 pm	Seminar on Gender, Trade and Macroeconomics
4:00 - 6:00 pm	EFG Working Session cont'd (wrap-up discussion of group work)
6:00 pm on	Cocktails for EFG and Seminar Panelists

Thursday, 14 November

9:00 - 10:30 am	Brainstorming Session on Gender Mainstreaming (S. Lateef)
10:30 - 12:00 noon	EFG Working Session cont'd (outcome document, future activities) [9:30 - 11:00 Tech. Meeting of Gender/Trade/Macroeconomics Panelists with ERD]
12:00 - 2:00 pm	Lunch
2:00 - 3:00 pm	EFG Working Session cont'd (outcome document, future activities)
4:00 - 5:00 pm	Wrap-up Meeting (B. Prakash, S. Lateef)

*The current EFG work program includes input to the ADF VIII progress report, sharpening gender focus in cooperative activities with ILO and WTO, suggesting ways to operationalize the MDGs, integrating gender concerns in ADB's follow-up to the Johannesburg Summit, disseminating recent CEDAW Committee reports and concluding comments relating to ADB member countries, reviewing gender-related covenants in ADB loan documents, and planning future activities (including possible seminars and gender training).