Ninth Meeting, Brussels 2008

Ninth meeting

The ninth membership meeting took place in Brussels, Belgium on May 22-23, 2008. Hosted by the European Commission, the meeting focused on four broad themes:

• Europe’s role in furthering the Coalition’s strategy
• Engaging the Coalition’s growing membership
• New findings from the Working Groups
• Assuring the Coalition’s financial sustainability

Resources

• Logistics sheet
• Agenda 
• Participant list
• Overview of new members
• Biographies of speakers
• Breakout group guidelines
• Meeting minutes
• Executive Committee summary

Thursday, May 22

• Welcome - Dominique Dellicour
• Since Washington - John Skibiak
• Financing of development assistance - Vicky Claes
• European Commission work - Antoinette Gosses 
• The European Council - Renate Baehr and Karen Hoehn
• Working with the European Parliament - Neil Datta
• European bilateral perspective - Felicity Daly
• European bilateral perspective (2) - An Huybrechts
• The new Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation RH strategy - Susan Rich (forthcoming)
• An expanded Coalition membership - Steve Kinzett

Friday, May 23

• Market Development Approaches WG - Ben Light
• Systems Strengthening WG update - Alan Bornbusch
• Resource Mobilization and Awareness WG - Mercedes Mas de Xaxas
• Minimum Volume Guarantee and Pledge Guarantee mechanisms - Daniella Ballou-Aares
• Sustaining our work - John Skibiak 

Background documents

• Strategic Options for Greater European Investment - Countdown 2015 Europe
• Reproductive Health Commodity Security Study - European Commission