Asian Perspectives: Asian Approaches to Development Cooperation

Event: Tuesday, April 23, 2013

9:00 am to noon

Registration 8:30 am

Remarks 9:00 am

Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Horizon Room

1300 Pennsylvania Ave NW

Washington, DC 20004

RSVPs are required as seating is extremely limited. Please RSVP here by Friday, April 19th, 2013.

For questions, please contact Mr. Norris Thigpen at 202-588-8717 or [email protected].

The global development cooperation landscape is changing. In addition to the traditional donors in OECD countries, there are a wide range of emerging Asian providers of development assistance who look at development in an entirely different way. Asian countries have emerged as game changers in the development assistance arena, challenging traditional notions of aid, reshaping global aid architecture, and placing new challenges on the global development agenda. Recognizing the importance of these new actors to future development policy and practice, the Asia Foundation has, since 2010, provided a platform for providers of development assistance from throughout the Asia region to share their views on development cooperation and international development challenges alongside traditional donors.

This April, government officials and policy specialists from China, India, Indonesia, and South Korea will join their peers in the United States to explore “Development Cooperation in the Asian Century” and “Post 2015 Development Challenges.”

Panel Discussion One: “Development Cooperation in the Asian Century”

Speakers include:

Siti N. Mauludiah, Director, Technical Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs—Indonesia

Keiichiro Nakazawa, Chief Representative, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) U.S.A.—Japan

Enna Park, Director-General, Development Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade—South Korea

Panel Discussion Two: “Post 2015 Development Challenges”

Speakers include:

Sachin Chaturvedi, Senior Fellow, Research and Information System for Developing Countries—India

Eun Mee Kim, Dean and Professor, Graduate School of International Studies; Director, Institute for Development and Human Security, Ewha Womans University; Former President, Korea Association of International Development and Cooperation—South Korea

Xiaoyun Li, Professor of Development Studies, Dean of the College of Humanities and Development Studies, Director of Research Center for International Development, China Agricultural University; Director and Co-Leader, OECD-DAC China Study Group—China

The Asian Approaches to Development Cooperation (AADC) dialogue series is a partnership between The Asia Foundation and the Korea Development Institute (KDI). This program in Washington, D.C., is organized by The Asia Foundation and USAID, with additional support from UNDP and Australian Aid.

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