Sectoral Groups
The working core of the conference are three daily meetings of people who are involved in the same sector in the three countries, whether they represent a government agency, mass organization, local NGO, professional association, foundation, university, multilateral development agency, bilateral donor, business or international NGO. Sectoral meetings offer an opportunity to profit from each other’s experience, develop means of ongoing communication and consider cooperative projects and exchanges. The list of groups will be expanded or contracted according to interest. Groups may merge with those having overlapping interests or divide for discussion of more specialized needs. Discussions may continue informally during the lunch break.
The following sectoral groups are expected to be offered. Participants must choose one (and only one) of the following for all three days.
- 1. Agriculture, Fisheries and Irrigation
2. AIDS/HIV/STD
3. Community Development (sub-divided into groups as needed)
4. Disaster Preparedness and Relief
5. Education: Pre-School, Primary
6. Education: Secondary, Vocational
7. Education: University, Graduate Work, Research, Exchanges, Distance
8. Education: Foreign Language Teaching
9. Environment, Ecology Restoration
10. Fostering Entrepreneurship
11. Health: Primary Health Care and Reproductive Health
12. Integrated Rural Development
13. Labor, working conditions
14. Land: pressures of population and legal issues
15. Legacies: land mines, UXO, Agent Orange
16. Micro-credit, Economic Development
17. Nutrition and Child Survival
18. Private Investment, Trade and Tourism
19. Process of developing funding proposals by national, provincial and district government and private institutions to international donors (including international NGOs).
20. Services for and with people with disabilities
21. Social and Economic Development in Remote Areas
22. Trafficking of women and children
23. Women’s Organizations and Priorities
24. Other ____________________________________
To receive special mailings about the conference, please print and return this form to the Forum c/o FRD, or email the following information to Susan Hammond.
Name_______________________________________
Organization ___________________________________
Address_______________________________________
______________________________________________
Postal code ________ Phone _______________________
Fax ______________ e-mail________________________
We currently have recognized programs in
___ Cambodia ____ Laos ____ Vietnam
We are interested in beginning to work with
___ Cambodia ___ Laos ___ Vietnam
in the field of________________________________
Circled are the most convenient meeting dates and crossed out dates are impossible for our organization:
June 5-7 June 12-14 June 19-21 June 26-28
___ Attached are suggestions for panel speakers, facil-itators and/or sectoral group coordinators (please be specific re role and topic).
