Place:
Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel, Dhaka, Bangladesh
107 Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue, Dhaka 1000
Phone: +880-2-811-1005
Fax: +880-2-912-7029
www.panpacific.com
Date: Sunday and Monday, 13-14 November 2011
Host: Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh
Organizers: Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Ministry of the Environment and Forests
General delegate level: Ministerial/Senior officials
Expected official outcome
Declaration (tbd.)
Meeting Report
Road Map of Activities
Preliminary discussion on Forum working modalities
Institutional support
DARA, Commonwealth Secretariat and UNDP
Participants
a. Founding countries and countries that attended subsequent meeting as well as other interested vulnerable countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh (Incoming Chair), Barbados, Bhutan, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, Kenya, Kiribati (Present Chair), Liberia, Maldives (First Chair), Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nepal, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Vietnam
Additional Invited Members (7): Afghanistan, Myanmar, Gambia, Haiti, Madagascar, Nicaragua and Papua New Guinea
b. Observer countries : Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, DRC, European Union, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and United States
c. International institutions and actors: DARA, Club of Madrid, CBR/BeCitizen, GEF, IIED, IISD, UNDP, UNEP, UNFCCC, World Bank, Commonwealth Secretariat, Secretariats of UNCCD, CBD and Ramsar Convention, ICIMOD, IUCN(BD), BRAC, BCAS, CIFF, MASDAR and few other entities.
d. Select local and international topic experts and representatives of leading civil society organizations and private sector.
Preparatory Track Meetings
September 2011, New York, at the sidelines of UNGA: a briefing of Forum delegations by the first chairs: Maldives/Kiribati/Bangladesh
13 November 2011, Dhaka, Bangladesh: officials pre-meeting of Forum delegations
