19.00

Informal Reception

9.00-11.00

Opening Session

Welcome Address

• Dr. Fuh Calistus Gentry, State Secretary of the Ministry for Industry, Mines and Technology Development of the Republic of Cameroon, Yaoundé
• Pierre Yété, Deputy Director of the Unit for Commerce, Industry and Tourism, Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa

Keynote Speaker

• James Shikwati, Inter Region Economic Network, Nairobi

Speakers

• Liberata Mulamula, International Conference on the Great Lakes Region, Bujumbura
• Daniel Braun, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Bonn
• Peter Buchholz, German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hanover
• Alamine Ousmane Mey, Afriland First Bank, Yaoundé (moderator)

11.00-11.30

Press conference/Coffee break

11.30-13.00

Parallel Panels

Establishing the link – EI and sustainable economic development

Panel 1
Extractive industries investments –
Making it work for development

• Beatrice Alperte, African Development Bank, Tunis
• Evelyne Tsague, Revenue Watch International, Yaoundé
• Muntaga Sallah, Gambia National Petroleum Company, Banjul
• Alamine Ousmane Mey, Afriland First Bank, Yaoundé (moderator)

Panel 2
Economic integration –
local content, local development

• Graham Baxter, International Business Leader Forum, London
• Adamou Labara, International Finance Corporation, Kinshasa
• Eric Dibeu, Canadian High Commission, Yaoundé
• Pierre Yété, Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa, Bangui (moderator)

13.00-14.30

Lunch

14.30-16.00

Parallel Panels

Building a supportive framework – good governance of the EI sector

Panel 3
Transparency –
EITI and the EI value chain

• Jonas Moberg, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, Oslo
• Marie-Ange Kalenga, Publish What You Pay, Yaoundé
• François Valerian, Transparency International, Berlin
• Lionel Ngwessy-Malaga, Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa, Bangui (moderator)

Panel 4
Local communities –
sharing real benefits

• Alamine Ousmane Mey, Afriland First Bank, Yaoundé
• Richard Sherrington, Wardell Armstrong, Stoke-on-Trent
• Joseph Njuma, Synergy Global Consulting, Johannesburg
• Lizzie Parsons, Global Witness, London (moderator)

16.00-16.30

Coffee break

18.00

Dinner Reception

9.15-9.30

Short Introduction

9.30-11.00

Parallel Panels

Specific challenges in the mining sector

Panel 5
Artisanal mining –
asset or burden for sustainable development?

• Nellie Mutemeri, Independent Consultant, Johannesburg
• Petra Ondigo, Rössing Foundation, Arandis
• Richard Sherrington, Wardell Armstrong, Stoke-on-Trent
• Ezekiel Dyke, United Mineworkers Union, Freetown
• Mark van Bockstael, World Diamond Council, Brussels
• Manfred Dahlheimer, German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hanover (moderator)

Panel 6
HIV in mining communities –
fighting a threat for the whole society

• Akua Ofori-Asumadu, International Labor Organization, Accra
• Maxwell Hammond, German Technical Cooperation, Accra
• Leonard Ndeki, African Medical and Research Foundation, Mwanza
• Erick Maville, Global Business Action on HIV / AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Paris (moderator)

11.00-11.30

Coffee break

11.30-13.00

Closing Session

Speakers

• Evelyne Tsague, Revenue Watch International, Yaoundé
• Adamou Labara, International Finance Corporation, Kinshasa
• Marie-Ange Kalenga, Publish What You Pay, Yaoundé
• Richard Sherrington, Wardell Armstrong, Stoke-on-Trent
• Manfred Dahlheimer, German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hanover
• Erick Maville, Global Business Action on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Paris
• Pierre Yété, Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa, Bangui
• Alamine Ousmane Mey, Afriland First Bank, Yaoundé (moderator)

13.00-14.30

Lunch/End of conference