| TENTATIVE SCHEDULE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Roosevelt Avenue, Rabat |
Saturday 24
Sunday 25
November |
9:00 - 16:00 |
Delegate arrival and registration |
Monday 26
November |
9:00 |
Opening Government of Morocco, Dr Joan Clos, Under Secretary-General, United Nations, and Executive Director, UN-Habitat |
| 10:30 - 13:30 |
Plenary session |
| 10:30 |
Presentation on Conference objectives - UN-Habitat |
| 10:40 |
Presentation on the policies of the Kingdom of Morocco |
| 10:50 |
Presentation of background paper based on international documentation and on individual country responses to the survey - Daniel Biau, urban affairs expert, France |
| 11:10 |
Regional perspectives: Africa, Latin America/Caribbean Asia-Pacific, Arab States. |
| 12:00 |
Presentation on the Global Housing Strategy 2025 |
| 12:10 |
Partners' perspectives: World Bank, United Cities and Local Governments Slum Dwellers International, Cities Alliance, Asian Coalition for Housing Rights, UNHabitat Consultative Group on Women, World Bank Institute |
| 15:00 - 18:00 |
Plenary session |
| Individual presentations by the 20 best performing countries |
| Speeches by other delegations |
Tuesday 27
November: |
9:30 - 15:00 |
Four workshops focusing on successful policies: |
| 1. Planning, land management and urban inclusiveness |
| 2. Governance and institutional structures |
| 3. Financing policies |
| 4. Performance evaluation and measurement methods |
| 14:30 |
Workshops continue |
| 16:30 |
Drafting workshop reports |
| South-South cooperation, dialogue between partner institutions |
| 20:00 |
Gala dinner |
| Wednesday 28 November |
9:00 - 13:00 |
1. Site visits and meetings with Moroccan stakeholders |
| 2. Conference report drafting committee meets, Rabat Declaration is reviewed, MDG Target 7-D revision strategy is set out |
| 14:30 |
1. Plenary session |
| 2. Presentation and discussion of workshop and conference reports |
| 16:00 |
Reading and endorsement of the Rabat Declaration |
| 16:30 |
Acknowledgements - symposium adjourns |
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE Headquarters of the Ministry of Housing, Urban Planning and Urban Policies |
Thursday 29
November |
Morning: |
Expert meetings - taking stock of lessons learnt from the Conference with a view to improving methodologies for the Participatory Slum Improvement Programme 2 |
| Afternoon: |
Morocco-Africa meetings |
