Tuesday, 29 January 2013

First day: Technical forum

08:00–08:30 Registration

08:30–9:30 Opening Session: Maternal and child health initiative in the Region: What’s it all about?

• RD/WHO/EMRO

• RD/UNICEF/MENARO

• RD/UNFPA/ASRO

9:30–11:00 Session 1: The global and regional situation

Co-Chairs: Minister of Health, UAE and Regional Director UNICEF

• Global progress towards MDGs 4 & 5: Dr F. Bustreo

• Regional overview of maternal and child health: Dr H. Madi

• Successful experiences in meeting the challenges in maternal, neonatal and child health in MDGs priority countries in the Region: Country presentations, Ministers of Health of Egypt, Morocco and Yemen

• Review of constraints, challenges and lessons learned: Dr Carole Presern

• Discussion

11:00–11:30 Coffee break

11:30–12:30 Session 2 : Scaling up

Co-Chairs: Minister of Health, Oman and Regional Director UNFPA

• Packages of essential interventions: Professor Z. Bhutta

• Cost and impact of scaling up interventions: Dr Elizabeth Mason/Dr Mikael Ostergren

• Discussion

12:30–14:00 Lunch Break 

14:00–16:30 Session 3: Country accelerated plans

Co-Chairs: Minister of Health, Lebanon and Professor Z. Bhutta

• Country acceleration plans for MDGs 4 and 5 – an overview

• Ministerial panel: Progress made with special emphasis on human resources, commodities, and accountability

16:30–17:00 Coffee break

17: 00 - 17:30 Session 4: next steps

Co-Chairs: Minister of Health, Jordan and Regional Director WHO

• Follow-up in countries, coordination mechanisms, partnerships and partnering

17:30–18:30 Drafting Committee: finalization of the Dubai Declaration

Wednesday 30 January 2013

Second day: Rising to the challenge

08:30–09:30 Inaugural Session

• Opening remarks: Regional Directors of UNICEF, UNFPA and WHO

• Address by UN Messenger of Peace and Chairperson of Dubai Health Care City Authority HRH Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, wife of HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai

• Film: “Saving the lives of mothers and children” Rising to the challenge

09:30–10:00 Coffee Break

10:00–11:00 Session 1: Highlighting the Need

Co-Chairs: Minister of Health, Tunisia and Dr F. Bustreo

• Film: ‘Why did Mrs X Die’?

• Outcome of the Technical Forum: Minister of Health, Afghanistan

• Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 in the Eastern Mediterranean Region:

Rising to the Challenge - A plan to scale up, Dr S. Ben Yahmed

11:00–13:00 Session 2: Together we can rise to the challenge

• Statements and commitments from Ministers of Health of the 10 high-burden countries

• Statements and commitments by partners/donors: USAID, Qatar Foundation, Gulf Cooperation Council, GAVI

13:00–13:30 Session 3: Closing Ceremony: Forging the change - Commitment to maternal and child health

• Dubai Declaration

• Closing and Group Photo