Volume 11, Issue 1   Interchange April 2001
Sectoral Working Groups: The nuts and bolts sessions 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, domestic 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.
  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: Landmines, 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

Deadline for registration and visa application is May 19, 2001 visa application is May 19, 2001

By special arrangement with Korean Air Lines, Forum participants will be able to obtain round trip tickets to Bangkok for the following costs from these and nearby departure points: New York: $1140; California, $860; Chicago, $1065; Atlanta, Dallas, $1100. Further information in registration packet.

  

Tapes available of the 9th annual conference of the Forum on Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam

Videotapes of the conference proceedings are available. Each tape is 6 hours and costs $20 (including US shipping). Tapes of only one of the plenary or panel discussions (2 hours each) listed below are also available for $10 each.

Tape One: Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam
Country Plenaries
Tape Two: Non Country Plenaries

  1. Opening Plenary, Lessons for transitional economies from the Asian economic crisis
  2. Plenary: Cooperation between international nonprofit organizations and host government
  3. Closing plenary: Headlines from sectoral groups and closing comments by the H.E. Lu Lay Sreng (Minister of Information) - Cambodia and H.E. Sok An (Minister Council of Ministers)- Cambodia, Executive Vice President Vu Xuan Hong - Vietnam and Vice Minister Khempheng Pholsena - Laos

Tape Three: Day One Panel Discussions

  1. a) Integrating multilateral and bilateral development agencies, foundations, nonprofit organizations and grass roots organizations into national plans
  2. b) International private business as a motor for development, source of philanthropic funds, and setter or subverter of labor standards
  3. c) Grassroots organizations and their role in meeting development needs

Tape Four: Day Two Panel Discussions

  1. a) Addressing social evils at the grassroots: prostitution, trafficking of women and children, and drug addiction
  2. b) Water resource development: economic, environmental and resettlement issues
  3. c) The challenge of maintaining a system of primary and preventative health care in the provinces

Tape Five: Day Three Panel Discussions

  1. a) Developing curriculum to meet new national needs
  2. b) Food security and growth, modernizing agriculture and overcoming poverty
  3. c) Grass roots efforts to address legacies of the war: landmines, UXO, birth defects and weapons proliferation.



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