Opening Session

8:30 - 8:45

Welcome Remarks by Degol Hailu, Director of the International Poverty Centre and Jason Dyett, Director of the Brazil Office of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University

8:45 - 9:15

Keynote Speech by Gesner Oliveira, President of the Water & Sanitation Company of the State of São Paulo (SABESP - Companhia de Saneamento Básico do Estado de São Paulo)


Session I: Access to Water in Informal Settlement Areas in the Developing World

9:15 - 9:45

Presentation of Paper - Hulya Dagdeviren, University of Hertfordshire Business School, UK

9:45 - 10:15

Introductory Commentary by: Degol Hailu, UNDP-IPC

10:15 - 10:30

Break

Session II: Access of the Poor to Water Supply and Sanitation in India: Salient Concepts, Issues and Cases

10:30 - 11:00

Presentation by: Nitish Jha, Fellow, Water Resources Division, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), India

11:00 - 11:30

Introductory Commentary by: Fernanda Machiaveli Morão de Oliveira, Department of Political Science, University of São Paulo (USP) and Presidency of Sabesp (Water & Sanitation Company of the State of São Paulo)


Session III: Expanding Access to Electricity in Brazil

11:30 - 12:00

Presentation by: Suani Teixeira Coelho, Executive Secretary, Brazilian Reference Center on Biomass (Centro Nacional de Referência em Biomassa-CENBIO-IEE), University of São Paulo (USP)

12:00 - 12:30

Introductory Commentary by: Ashley C. Brown, Harvard Electricity Policy Group, John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, U.S

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

Session IV: Efforts to Promote Private Sector Participation in African Infrastructure: Is this the best use of scarce resources?

14:00 - 14:30

Presentation by: Kate Bayliss, Research Officer, Water and Development in Africa, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK

14:30 - 15:00

Introductory Commentary by: Frederico Araujo Turolla, Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing (ESPM-Advanced School of Advertising and Marketing), Brazil and Rafael Osorio, International Poverty Centre, Brasília

Session V: Poverty Issues in Infrastructure Regulation: Choices and Dilemmas, Opportunities and Pitfalls

15:00 - 15:30

Presentation by: Ashley C. Brown, Executive Director, Harvard Electricity Policy Group, John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, USA

15:30 - 16:00

Introductory Commentary: Zevi Kann, Agência Reguladora de Saneamento e Energia do Estado de São Paulo (ARSESP-São Paulo State Sanitation and Energy Regulatory Agency) and Ericson de Paula, ICF Consultoria do Brasil Ltda (ICF International Rio de Janeiro office)

16:00 - 16:15

Break

Session VI: Privatization and Renationalization: What went wrong in Bolivia’s Water Sector?

16:15 - 16:45

Presentation by: Degol Hailu, Rafael Osorio and Raquel Tsukada (International Poverty Centre)

16:45 - 17:15

Introductory Commentary: Naércio Aquino Menezes Filho, IBMEC-São Paulo and Department of Economics, University of São Paulo (USP) and Ciro Biderman, School of Business Administration (EAESP) of the Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), Brazil

Session VII: The Implications of Water and Electricity Supply in Ghana for the Time Allocation of Women

17:15 - 17:45

Presentation by: Joana Costa, Degol Hailu, Elydia Silva and Raquel Tsukada (International Poverty Centre)

17:45 - 18:15

Introductory Commentary: Lorena Barberia, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University

18:15 - 18:30

Closing remarks