The conference will discuss the challenges of sustainable development, with themes such as 'development aid vs. humanitarian assistance during conflict'. The goal is to contribute to post-conflict transformation and peace-building. Delegates will include community organisations, policy makers and academics working in the field of conflict and development.

The workshop will focus on the training of civil servants working in various Mexican municipalities. Ways will be suggested as to how international cooperation programmes can be used in the fight against poverty through more localised development projects. The workshop will be attended by the EU Delegation to Mexico, the Foreign Affairs Secretary, AMMAC (Association of Mexican Municipalities) and UNDP (United Nations Development Programme)

The Chatham House Africa Programme is setting up the British Congo Forum to increase and improve debate and the flow of information on the Democratic Republic of Congo in the UK. The Forum will provide a space enabling proper dialogue and consideration on this complex country, and will help to improve UK-DRC engagement. This event marks the launch of the series and will be chaired by the head of the Chatham House Africa Programme Alex Vines. Speakers will include Muzong Kodi, who will present his paper on anti-corruption in post-election DRC.

This year’s social forum rallies around the dictum ‘Another World is Possible’. Held in Nairobi, the WSF will focus on African issues as well as social justice, gender equality and the exploitation of the poor.

The IYLA conference will be attended by 200 students from Africa and around the world. The event will consist of site visits, panel discussions, special events, and simulations of important African Intergovernmental Organisations, which will culminate at the end of the week with a Model Pan-African Parliament. Among other topics, the participants will deal with corruption, good governance, African governing traditions (ACHPR), corporate governance and corporate responsibility.

The event will bring together participants from the corporate sector, governments, international organisations and institutes to discuss the natural resource dimension of sustainable development. The summit will emphasise the need for natural resource management to harness sustainable development.

With the legislative amendments that have been implemented by the Tax Reform Bill in Colombia, this seminar seeks to provide practitioners in tax management with practical planning tools to adapt to these changes.

This year’s forum will focus on the challenges facing the global agenda in 2007 in the fields of economics, geopolitics, technology and business. As in previous Annual Meetings, there will be an Open Forum where the general public will have the opportunity to discuss a number of different topics ranging from foreign aid to global energy consumption.

This event aims to explore the links between security, hunger, poverty and natural disaster and to build partnerships between stakeholders including United Nations agencies and governments. An exhibition, NGO area, learning centre and workshops will allow delegates to network and expand their knowledge of the current and potential relationship between aid and trade. There will also be a special “Focus on Procurement”, which will discuss practical measures to ensure the transparent tendering of contracts.

The conference brings together government officials, the private sector and academia to discuss how government can accelerate transformation through the promotion of e-governance initiatives.

Speakers include Angel Gurria, Secretary General of the OECD. Discussions will focus on ethical decision-making at all levels and promoting good governance worldwide. The goal is to bring together participants from all sectors and to provide a concrete opportunity for transparent dialogue. In the two days prior to the event, Transparency International’s Canadian chapter will be hosting a workshop on the ethical challenges of municipal government and administration.

The event seeks to provide a platform for exchange between national and local government, the private and public sectors and civil society, to formulate strategic priorities in Asia’s urban development and to address poverty in Asian cities.

The report examines topics such as the system of contracting of public officials, public contracting, systems to protect whistleblowers and defining acts of corruption in Honduras. Following the event, there will be an anti-corruption march on 10th of February supported by the National Anti-Corruption Council.

This year’s ADM conference focuses on good governance in the EU’s approach to development.

The Inter-American Convention Against Corruption was signed in 1996 by the members of OAS. The IACC countries have committed themselves to establish anti-corruption measures, particularly in public procurement and appointments in the judiciary. This year’s follow-up convention will feature workshops and lectures on access to information, conflicts of interest in the civil service, public participation and the future of the IACC.

Building on the success of last year’s World Ethics and Integrity Forum, TI Malaysia and the Asian Strategy and Leadership Institute, together with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and Caux Round Table, have organised the 2007 World Ethics and Transparency Forum. The event will bring together experts in the field of transparency, senior civil servant, business leaders and NGOs to discuss how to better articulate good ethics in the public and private sectors.

TI-UK is holding an event on the UK's approach to fighting international corruption. The meeting will be open to members and other interested parties. The speaker will include: Jeremy Carver, Board Member of TI-UK; Fritz Heimann, former Chairman of TI-USA; Stephen Day, Former Head of the Middle East Department at the FCO; and Karina Litvack, Director & Head of Governance and Sustainable Development, F&C Asset Management Plc.

This series of conferences and seminars will focus on a myriad of topics, including: corruption and security, lectures on the corrution situation in Guatemala and Honduras, as well as civil society and international conventions.

The World Council for Corporate Governance (WCFCG) attempts to widen the scope of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a way to alleviate poverty. This year’s conference focuses on the role of business as a catalyst in poverty reduction, by emphasising collaboration, the need of aligning strategies in the global context to improve energy security.

The City of Amsterdam and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam will host an international top level conference on anti-corruption policies at metropolitan level. The conference will provide a unique opportunity for scholars and practitioners to evaluate examples of existing and successful local integrity systems (LIS). The objective of the conference is to exchange of best practice on fighting corruption and safeguarding integrity.

All leaders of independent education around the world committed to developing global citizenship are invited to attend the second NAIS Global Education Summit. The Summit will begin with keynote addresses by Mary Robinson and Hafsat Abiola. After a morning of discussions and presentations, this year's GES will wrap up with the Annual Conference and a three-hour workshop.

Doing Good and Doing Well is the leading MBA conference in Europe on socially responsible business. It brings together hundreds of business school students, professors, and professionals from all over the world to discuss current trends and initiatives on a broad range of issues. This year's conference will broach ethical branding, the role of government, the new face of CSR, NGOs and Africa's upcoming development.

Business must lead the way in helping to change consumer behaviour. The conference is organised by Ethical Corporation and designed to help business integrating questions of climate change into their strategies.

The International Conference on Water Status Monitoring under the WFD will bring together key actors from the water sector, with a special focus on science and policy interactions. The WFD strives towards integrated environmental management to prevent further deterioration of water bodies and protect and enhance the status of aquatic ecosystems. It aims to promote sustainable water consumption and will contribute to mitigating the effects of floods and droughts.

National state/regional, and local governments worldwide continue to face shrinking budgets while having to maintain adequate levels of service for their citizens. This dilemma is forcing governments to think strategically about the ever increasing financial, technical, and social pressures. In many countries, governments are beginning to contract out government services to the private sector. IP3’s course has been designed to teach practitioners which policies and legislation are crucial for strategic PPP, as well as evaluating the pros and cons of the various forms of regulation of PPP agreements.

This conference, organised by the Government of Belgium in cooperation with the World Bank and the OECD, will bring together representatives of governments, international organizations, the private sector, and the academic community to identify policy recommendations that can be taken forward in the OECD/DAC, World Bank and other international fora.

Real case-studies on day one will be followed by group workshops and tips on best practice and keynote addresses. There will also be a networking event, the “Fraud and Corruption Mystery Dinner”.

PNoWB mobilizes parliamentarians to address global governance and poverty challenges, to promote transparency and accountability of international development and offers a unique platform of dialogue between parliamentarians and the World Bank. PNoWB’s flagship event, the annual conference seeks to identify what parliamentarians can do to promote action on development and global issues, and help strengthen the accountability and transparency of international financial institutions by providing a platform for dialogue.

The Boards of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank and the Inter-American Investment Corporation meet with selected representatives of multilateral financial institutions, development agencies, commercial and investment banks, businesses and private-sector organisations and civil society.

Hundreds of parliamentarians, representatives of local communities, water public companies, unions, and citizens from all around the globe will meet in order to take concrete measures for change in favour of the right to water for all and against its privatisation.

A discussion of the theory and application of Freedom of Information legislation, helping participants to develop, implement and evaluate Freedom of Information initiatives. Delegates expected to attend will include politicians, governmental advisers, lawyers and policy makers.

1200 delegates are expected at this conference, which aims to provide both public and private sector professionals with practical knowledge on money laundering. Over 40 experts will provide guidance on best practice, legal practice and relevant new developments. An interactive format incorporates three post-conference workshops and a range of networking opportunities.

The Brookings Institute, the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and The International Budget Project will sponsor a conference on improved governance with a focus on the role civil society organizations can play in analyzing and advocating for better policies, especially in the area of public expenditures. Francis Fukuyama, the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy and director of the international development program at SAIS, will give a keynote address before the second panel in the afternoon.

Every year, the international community spends billions of dollars on peacebuilding activities and post-conflict reconstruction. Often, a significant portion of these funds are siphoned off due to corrupt activities, eroding confidence in new democratic institutions, undermining economic development, diverting scarce public resources for infrastructure investments, and reducing the delivery of vital social services. This workshop will bring together leading international scholars and practitioners to develop a framework for thinking about peacebuilding and corruption by building on existing theories. This framework and its associated concepts and ideas will be applied to case studies of Liberia, Afghanistan, and Bosnia and Herzegovina— each at a different stage of the peacebuilding process.

This year’s conference will focus on collaboration across government bodies and explore methods of collaboration that could improve the overall performance of public services.

Leaders from government, business and civil society around the world will be giving special attention in 2007 to the subject of sustainable development and the role of business. Not only does the year mark the 20th anniversary of the historic World Commission on Environment and Development report, but it also will be fifteen years since the first UN ‘Earth Summit’. Against this background and recent reports on the damage to climate and other natural systems, Chatham House and FTSE will be holding this special high-level event to review progress towards sustainable development, and explore scope for both scaling up, and speeding up action – by governments, business and civil society.Corporate Responsibility 2007 is the ninth in Chatham House’s highly successful CR series of major international conferences.

The conference will focus on the following three themes: Water, landscape and the past; The urbanisation of water; and Water, governance and development intervention. The conference will explore how practices and discourses of water and landscape are inevitably tied up with, and invoke, different ideas, imaginations and perceptions of what the postcolonial state is, should and could be in southern Africa.

The Government of Norway will be hosting a conference on good governance and social and environmental responsibility. Some 300–400 representatives from governments, international institutions, industry, trade unions, civil society and various research institutions are expected to attend. The conference is being jointly organised by business and industry partners, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), the UN Global Compact, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Global Reporting Initiative. The conference delegates will include Achim Steiner, Executive Director of UNEP, Sharan Burrow, President of the International Trade Union Confederation, Björn Stigson, President of the WBCSD, Georg Kell, Executive Head of the UN Global Compact, a number of CEOs and Norway’s Ministers of Foreign Affairs, International Development and the Environment.

Meeting the challenges of sustainable development requires finding innovative solutions in the areas of technology, economy and society. Clean technology, micro-credit, business-NGO partnerships are some examples of innovating approaches. This 6th FEDERE forum will bring together leaders from business, NGOs, unions and politics to debate around those issues. Some of the topics that will be discussed include: The boom of clean technologies; Include the Poor in you business plan; Raising awareness among consumers; and Corporate governance and ethics.

This conference will focus on corruption from perspective of institutional investors. The event will highlight why we should consider corruption issues and which instruments are available to institutional investors to fight corruption. The major themes of the event will include: the role and responsibility of public and private organizations and the negative impacts of corruption on an organisation's value.

The fifth Global Forum event will look at the links between corruption and poverty and the strengthening of anti-corruption institutions. The 2007 event is to be held in Africa for the first time, with the theme “Fulfilling our commitments: Effective action against corruption”. It is expected to attract 1500 delegates, including ministers and senior officials from over 100 countries. The overall objective of the event is to discuss practical and effective measures for preventing and fighting corruption.

This open discusion wil tackle recomandations over criteria proposed for the election of candidatures for the new Albanian head of state. Members of ACAC as well as other representatives from NGOs will attend the event.

This Roundtable is held to discuss the findings on the World Economic Forum third Arab World Competitiveness Report with its authors and researchers, and to shape its impact on economic policy-making in the region with key decision-makers. It will also provide first-hand insight into growth industries and markets that will drive the engine of the Arab economies in the future.

TRACE organizes anti-bribery training workshops throughout the world for its members. These seminars feature local and foreign business people and lawyers familiar with the practical challenges of international commercial transactions. The workshops are designed to provide attendees with the information they need to navigate these challenges and comply with international conventions and local anti-bribery laws.

Speakers will include Tanya Heikkila, Columbia University Assistant Professor at School of International and Public Affairs and Upmanu Lall Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering at Columbia University.

The Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund and the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group meet to discuss the work of their institutions. The Annual Meetings include 2 days of plenary sessions, during which Governors consult with one another and the Boards of Governors make decisions on how current international monetary issues should be addressed. The Annual Meetings are chaired by a Governor of the Bank and the Fund, with the chairmanship rotating among the membership each year. The Annual Meetings Program of Seminars is designed to foster creative dialogue among the private sector, government delegates and senior Bank and Fund officials.

The workshop will be an opportunity to discuss and exchange strategies, as well as possible challenges in the field of public access to information. State officials, civil society organizations and individual citizens will participate in this event.

The World Economic Forum’s roundtable key purpose is to assist Latin America’s well-established and growing industries to compete globally. Risk analysis and scenarios will reveal the opportunities and identify the challenges to shape the business environment in the future. The program revolves around world trends and issues, Latin America’s changing perspectives, recently elected government priorities, China-Latin America economic relations, infrastructure investments and equitable income distribution. The roundtable’s ultimate objective is to promote regional sustained economic growth along with equitable income distribution.

The American Bar Association is a voluntary bar association of lawyers and law students. Every year, the ABA organises a Spring Meeting bringing together international practitioners, academics and government officials from around the world. This year's meeting will include sessions on human rights law, public private partnerships in Latin America, World Bank anti-corruption programmes and NGO accountability.

The conference will include updates on anti-corruption developments around the world, a roundtable of leading prosecutors, expert discussions on internal investigations and the growing role of auditors in anti-corruption enforcement in Europe, analyses of the year's major cases and investigations and a workshop on state-of-the-art complinace programmes.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is an international regional development finance institution founded with the aim of promoting the development of the Asia-Pacific region. Focusing primarily on the eradication of poverty, it supports initiatives promoting the economic growth of its member nations. Its next Annual Meeting will be held in Kyoto and will address a broad agenda including major decision-making and exchanges of opinion on future issues affecting the Asia-Pacific region, such as rising unemployment, aging population, rapid urbanization, the widening gap between the rich and the poor and environmental issues.

With the theme "Looking at the Landscape of the Global Economy", the conference will focus on the near- to long-term risks facing the world economy and their implication on business and governments, including corruption.

This event will host Europe’s top corporations to discuss corporate responsibility in 2020 Attendees will include Hans Ulrich Maerki, Chairman of IBM (EMEA), Allan Leighton, Chairman of Royal Mail, John Drummond, Chief Executive of Corporate Culture, and Richard Lambert, Director General of the CBI.
Whilst the first day of the conference will deal with the future of responsible business, the second day will discuss practical solutions to the most prominent corporate responsibility problems found today.
Sessions will cover climate change, measuring the success of corporate responsibility initiatives, supply chain management, arguments against corporate responsibility, and engaging stakeholders in your corporate responsibility agenda.

The 42nd Annual Meetings of the Board of Governors of the African Development Bank and the 33rd Meetings of the Board of the African Development Fund are being held after a major Sino-African Summit in Beijing in November 2006. The Annual Meetings will provide an opportunity to highlight and further explore growing economic relations between Africa and Asia. One of the key innovations of the 2007 Annual Meetings is the emphasis on reflections on development, through a series of seminars and workshops on major African development issues. This year's focus will be on water management.

The OECD Forum is a multi-stakeholder summit which brings together business and labour leaders, civil society personalities, government ministers and leaders of international organisations to discuss the hottest issues on the international agenda. It takes place in conjunction with the annual OECD Ministerial Summit. Some of the topics discussed will include how to improve the management of water resources, how to ensure investment works to boost innovation, what are the prospects for the multilateral trading system and how innovation in health can go hand in hand with equity of access.

The World Economic Forum on the Middle East will gather world leaders in business and politics to address the importance of social and political diversity and economic diversification in the region. The Forum provides a high-level platform for interaction between leaders. The programme will tackle three main pillars: Industries of the Future; Peace, Stability and International Relations; and Trade Society and Change.

The Annual Meeting and Business Forum will see high-level government officials, financial and corporate executives, the media and NGOs coming together to discuss opportunities for the ex-Soviet republics.

The seminar will include members from EUROSocial, the EU, CEJA and the Chilean Supreme Court of Justice. The event will analyse the implementation processes of reforms to the penal systems in the region, particularly on innovative internal and external management of the major institutions involved, including the judiciary, the police and the Public Defender's Office.

The Civicus World Assembly is a convening point for civil society and and key stakeholders, such as NGOs, government agencies, the media, private sector and grant-making institutions, to enable them to act together to create a just world. This year's focus is on how to achieve a just world thruogh accountability.

The public panel event will bring together legal professionals, policy-makers, academics, development practitioners and activists to discuss the key findings of the report and reflect on remedies for judicial corruption around the world. Admission is free and active participation from the audience is encouraged. Invited guest speakers include:

Huguette Labelle (Chair, Transparency International)
Keith Henderson (American University)
José Ugáz (Benites, Forno & Ugáz)
Mary Noel Pepys (International Rule of Law Consultant)
Gugulethu Moyo (International Bar Association)

The IFJ Congress is the largest representative gathering of journalists in the world and is held every three years. The theme for this year’s event is Making News for Democracy: Building Trust in Quality Journalism, and will include a core programme of events including sessions on journalism and inter-cultural dialogue in the face of terrorism and intolerance and a special one-day conference on May 28th, on Challenging Impunity: the Global Campaign for Justice in Journalism when an International Commission of Inquiry into Impunity in the Killing of Journalists in Russia will be launched.

Every year, Transparency International's national chapters in the Europe and Central Asia, as well as secretariat staff, meet in a selected location to discuss the issues facing the region as a whole. Over the three days of the meeting, workshops and plenary sessions will be held. The regional meeting will close with a cultural programme organised by this year's host, Azerbaijan.

The Crinis project compares the levels of transparency and accountability in political party and campaign financing systems in eight Latin American countries. Crinis, which means “ray of light” in Latin, helps increase citizens’ trust in political parties by identifying, motivating and guiding reforms in political financing systems.

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Presentación del proyecto Crinis que evalúa y compara los niveles de transparencia y rendición de cuentas en los sistemas de financiamiento de partidos políticos y campañas electorales en ocho países de América Latina. Crinis –rayo de luz en latín- es un aporte para elevar la confianza ciudadana en la democracia y en los partidos políticos, a través de identificar, motivar y orientar reformas en los sistemas de financiamiento político para que éstos alcancen mayores niveles de transparencia y rendición de cuentas.

The 2007 edition of the International Forum on African Perspectives will feature a presentation and discussion of the the AfDB/OECD joint annual report that offers a comparative panorama of the economic, political and social evolution of 31 African economies and assesses progress of Africa towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals. This year’s focus is: Access to Drinking Water and Sanitation. Held on the eve of the G8 summit, where the partnership with Africa will be a major issue for discussion, the Forum is an opportunity for personalities from African and OECD countries to assess the economic prospects of the continent and engage with an audience of journalists, business people, development co-operation professionals, researchers, civil society representatives and academia.

The LAWASIA conferences focus on legal issues affecting China and, more broadly, the Asia-Pacific region. The last LAWASIA biennial conference will include sessions on "Mutual cooperation between courts in the region: Enforcement of judgements in China" and "The role of the courts in nurturing an ethical and vialble legal profession".

The G8 summits are an opportunity for world leaders to come together and discuss issues that require a coordinated international response, such as global security, environmental degradation and debt relief. These yearly meetings also help to set the agenda for the international community as whole by setting priorities, defining present and future issues and providing direction for international organisations.

Each year, a different country assumes the presidency and hosts the annual summit. In 2007, Germany holds the rotating presidency. The summit will be held in Heiligendamm, situated on the coast of the Baltic Sea between 6 and 8 June.

Judicial corruption has powerful and damaging repercussions on development, limiting the ability of individuals, businesses and countries to grow, and threatening basic rights such as access to justice and the right to a fair trial. How does judicial corruption manifest itself, what remedies exist for corruption-tainted systems, and what are the roles of different stakeholders?
On June 6, the Wolfensohn Center for Development at the Brookings Institution and Transparency International-USA will host a discussion on Transparency International's 2007 Global Corruption Report. The report brings together work by notable scholars, judges, and civil society activists from around the world. Panelists will discuss the report's findings, why and where corruption mars judicial processes and what can be done. Experts include: Aryeh Neier, Susan Rose-Ackerman, Eduardo Bertoni, Philip Bond, and Noel Hillman. After the program, panelists will take audience questions.

UNESCO’s International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) holds a 10-day summer course devoted to the topic “Transparency, accountability and anti-corruption measures in education”. It gathers about 25 to 30 participants from all the regions of the world, mainly high-level managers and administrators; but also representatives from the civil society and donor agencies. The Course draws on the training materials developed under the Institute’s research programme on “Ethics and corruption in education”. The agenda includes a general overview of the issue of corruption in the education sector; presentations of some basic tools to diagnose and assess corruption problems; and discussions on some of the successful strategies for improving transparency and accountability in selected domains, such as financing, procurement, teacher management, private tutoring and academic fraud.

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This conference, presented by the Criminal Law section of the International Bar Association, will focus on latest developments in judicial corruption, as well as mutual extradition. Attendees will include criminal defence lawyers, practitioners involved in cros-border litigation, media law and political lobbyists.

The 6th EPS Conference is dedicated to questions, dilemmas, and ethical solutions to war and human rights, world terror, ethics of international peace enforcing forces in war zones and ethics of intrusive technologies. The program will include symposia and workshops that will be presented by distinguished scholars and leading practitioners, with the aim to shed new light on the following three sub-themes of the conference: The Just War Doctrine and the War on Terrorism, The Ethics of Intrusive Technologies, Theories and Lessons of Achieving excellence in Public Service Ethics.

In its attempt to provide support and resources for public and private sector initiatives to prevent corrupt business practices, TI-Canada will disseminate Transparency International’s Business Principles for Countering Corruption (BPCB) to provide a model for companies seeking to adopt a comprehensive anti-bribery programme. Ms. Clare Bonnell, Chair and President, TI-Canada, Mr. Tim Martin, Vice President and Special Counsel at Nexen Inc. and Ms. Susan Côté-Freeman, BPCB Secretariat at Transparency International will be giving speeches among others.

This year's IABA Confrerence will focus on Access to Justice. Topics of relevance include: Transparency and Appointment of Judges through open contests and other proceedings; The Judiciary Council as an entity for the appointment and control of judges and Legal ethics: Rules for Attorneys of the Americas.

This year's theme for the WEF on Africa will be "Raising the Bar". Leaders will focus on: building capacity for success; enhanced investment, Africa as global partner and pathways to prosperity.

The theme of this year's conference will be: Anti-Corruption: Minimizing the Risk of Improper Payments in an Era of Increased International Enforcement. Topics that will be discussed include: What prospective acquirers should look for in a target’s anti-corruption compliance; what to do if pre-merger due diligence efforts reveal problems; assessing regulatory risks prior to closing and other transactional issues

The second event for the City Series will be focusing on the challenges posed by extraterritorial regulation. Its increasing prevalence is becoming an ever greater concern to business across the globe.

This event will focus on the attempts being made on both sides of the Atlantic to resolve the current challenge of regulation. It will examine specific issues such as Sarbanes-Oxley; the impact of the evolving consolidation within the financial markets and the convergence of reporting standards.

The conference will bring together influential policymakers, business leaders and legal professionals from both sides of the Atlantic to discuss the approaches being taken by the respective governments and the future outlook for cross-border investment

Ten years after the Inter-American Convention against Corruption entered into force, many are asking whether it is fulfilling its intended role of strengthening governance and reducing corruption. Civil society organizations from across the hemisphere have presented a critical non-governmental perspective on progress to the Convention’s inter-governmental review body.

TI National Chapters from México, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela will share their views and recommendations, with a special focus on efforts to reduce corruption in public contracting and increase whistleblower protection. Their presentations will underscore the important role of civil society monitoring of convention enforcement – a role facing increasing resistance in many countries.

This is a knowledge-based course which aims to deepen participants’ understanding of the challenges and limits of the ‘resource curse’ and the governance of revenue generated by the oil, gas and mining industries. The course is intended primarily for civil society activists seeking to improve the impacts that extractive revenues have on the economic, social and political development of their countries.

The 7th Global Forum will offer plenary sessions, workshops and meetings designed to contribute to the Millennium Development Goals by strengthening state capacity and the quality of governance. The conference will examine best practices and alternative strategies for building trust in government. The conference also aims to promote better international and regional cooperation.

The conference will present and debate the results of a three year research study funded by the European Union that has examined whether Corporate Social Responsibility can lead to genuine impacts on society and the environment or whether CSR is merely rhetorical presentation.

This workshop is being organized for the Procurement Officials from various Departments of the Government of Sindh, who had recently promulgated the Sindh Procurement Regulatory Authority and adopted the Pakistan Procurement Regulatory Authority Rules on June 30th 2007. It is being conducted by TI-Pakistan in collaboration with PPRA and World Bank Pakistan Office. During the workshops the salient features of the PPRA Rules will be deliberated upon. At the end of each sessions an interactive discussion will be held with the participants so that the doubts regarding any of the rules may be clarified.

This lecture is given by Daniel Kauffman.

The workshop aims to provide an opportunity the latest ideas and reflections on latest research findings and policy implications; to seek to identify key aspects of governance necessary for economic growth; and to develop networks to improve research and its impact on policy development.

This course has two main components: a core course aims to familiarise participants with key ingredients for developing strategic and critical approaches to effective and sustainable corruption control and organisational integrity; and á policy lab on the governance of oil, gas and mining revenues will allow in-depth discussion of policy issues. It seeks to apply the macro perspectives of the core course to extractive revenue issues to explore and generate possible solutions

The course is open to experienced policy makers and government representatives, academics and civil society activists.

The Congress will address contemporary administrative issues under the major theme of Global Competitiveness and Public Administration' with a focus on implications for education and training. This year's sub-topics will be: public administration in a globalised world - local, national, regional, and universal issues; making globalisation ethical - the 21st century public administration; and global governance and the globalisers: IMF, the World Bank, WTO, and the EU.

The dawn of the MDG half-way point on 07/07/07 requires that the global community takes a moment to critically evaluate progress made towards meeting the MDG’s since 2001. In particular, the African continent has an even greater burden, since evidence shows that it is the only continent that is likely to not meet the MDG’s by 2015. This is a reality that the African people cannot afford, as failure to meet the MDG’s means that poverty, rampant disease and vulnerability will continue to plaque the continent.

Even the United Nations 2007 Update, Africa and the Millennium Development Goals admitted that Africa is not on track:” at the mid point between their adoption in 2000 and the 2015 target date for achieving the Millennium Development Goals, sub-Saharan Africa is not on track to achieve any of the goals. Although there have been, major gains in several areas and the Goals remain achievable in most African nations, even the best governed countries of the