2016 GSURR Forum Session Registration Form

Thank you for registering the 2016 GSURR Forum and Learning Week. The form below has been designed to let you select and sign up for the parallel sessions you want to attend during the Forum week (Nov 28 - Dec 2, 2016), which will be held in World Bank HQ, Washington, DC & the National Conference Center (NCC), Loudon Country, Virginia. Please sign up via the Open Learning Campus (OLC) for SURR Learning Week Sessions (Dec 5 - 9, 2016).

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The Forum and Learning Week will be structured as follows:

Monday, Nov 28 (HQ): Plenary sessions. Focus on strategic directions.
Tuesday, Nov 29 (HQ): Parallel sessions. GSGs hold community meetings/panel discussions. Travel to NCC before dinner. Group dinner / reception / activity.
Wednesday, Nov 30 (NCC): Plenary in the morning; parallel peer learning and knowledge sharing slots led by GSGs and KSBs. Afternoon activities. Dinner.
Thursday, Dec 1 (NCC): Full-day unit retreats. Dinner + talent show.
Friday, Dec 2 (NCC): Sector-Wide sessions; parallel peer learning and knowledge sharing slots led by GSGs and KSBs. Closing plenary. Leave NCC in afternoon.
2nd Week, Dec 5-9 (HQ): Learning week.

Please visit our SURR Forum Spark page to view the agenda for the SURR Forum. Please find below detailed descriptions of the sessions, organized by theme/GSG.

Citizen Engagement
City Management, Governance & Financing
Community Driven Development
DRM
Land & Geospatial
Social Inclusion
Social Sustainability & Standards
Stability, Peace, & Security
Sustainable City Infrastructure & Services
Territorial & Spatial Development
Urban Strategy & Analytics
Other (includes operational learning; leadership training; communications and presentations skills; etc.)

Please indicate below which sessions you want to attend.

Note that seating is limited, so spaces will be reserved only for those who are pre-registered for a given session. Please note that session titles, room locations, and links to other venues are subject to change. Also, please note that session numbers are for internal organizational purposes only.

At the end of the form you will have an option to preview & print your desired sessions through your web browser for your own records. You can re-enter the form at any time to update your responses providing the link is accessed on the same computer.

DAY1: MONDAY, November 28, 2016

8:30-9:00am: Registration

9:00-9:15am: Plenary (Preston) - Welcome – Ede Ijjasz Vasquez, Senior Director, GP-SURR

9:30-11:00am: Plenary (Preston) - Arrival City - How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World, Keynote Speaker: Doug Sanders (tbc)

11:00-12:30pm: Plenary (Preston) - Dialogue on Social Sustainability - Setting the Stage

12:30-1:00pm: Discussion - Kyle Peters, Sr. Vice President, Operations

1:00-2:30pm: Lunch

2:30-3:30pm: Plenary (Preston) - Building Sustainable Communities, Sr. Director Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez

3:45-5:00pm: Plenary (Preston) - Panel Discussion with SD Practice Group Senior Management, VP Laura Tuck & SD Directors

5:00-7:00pm: Reception

DAY2: TUESDAY, November 29, 2016

9:00-10:30am: Plenary (Preston) - Cities, Growth and Planning, Chief Economist Paul Romer & Harvard Prof. Lant Pritchett

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11:00am-12:30pm: GSG Sessions

City Management, Governance & Financing (I 1-200)

DRM - Resilience: A Building Block to Achieve the Twin Goals (I 2-220)

Social Inclusion - Moving Social Inclusion in Country Programs (I 2-250)

Stability, Peace & Security - Scaling Up WBG Response to FCV and Displacement: GSURR Readiness and Role (Preston Auditorium)

Territorial & Spatial Development - The Role of Space in Economic and Policy Analysis (MC C2-137)

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12:30-2:00pm: Regional Lunches with RVPs
* Please note that lunch with ECA VP will be held on Dec 5th as part of ECA Unit retreats.

Africa

East Asia & Pacific

Latin America & Caribbean

Middle East & North Africa

South Asia

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2:00-3:30pm: GSG Sessions

Community Driven Development - CDD GSG Forum (Preston Auditorium)

Land & Geospatial - Using drones to leapfrog land use inventories and cadastral surveying: the real, the potential and the doubtful (I 1-200)

Social Sustainability & Standards (I 2-250)

Sustainable City Infrastructure & Services - Updates on Solid Waste Management and Transit-Oriented Development (I 2-220)

Urban Strategy & Analytics - New Urban Research and Analytics (MC C2-137)

3:45-5:15pm: Travel to NCC

5:15-7:00pm: Free Time

Evening: Dinner; CCC Event

DAY3: WEDNESDAY, November 30, 2016

9:00-10:30am: Plenary - Sr. Director and SURR Council

Please select one of the following 90-minute sessions OR two 45-minute sessions below.

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11:00am-12:30pm: 90-Minute Parallel Sessions

No. 101: Discussing Social Safeguards Challenges with the RSAs (90 min)

No. 115: Building Knowledge Sharing Capacity - Lessons from OKS Engagements (90 min)

No. 123: Geospatial Applications for Sustainable Development (90 min)

No. 125: New Urban Research and Analytics II (90 min)

No. 12: Joint Efforts for Urban and Resilience Program in Tanzania (90 min)

No. 36: Towards a more inclusive and effective citizen engagement: Participatory Budgeting in Kenya (90 min)

No. 48: Navigating the Labyrinth that is Operations (90 min)

No. 69: Hydromet Services: Challenges and Opportunities (90 min)

No. 75/76: Mainstreaming Citizen Engagement in Operations; Getting Innovative with Citizen Engagement (90 min)

No. 91: Designing Operations for City Competitiveness (90 min)

No. 99: One WBG Housing Strategy: How to Move Forward? (90 min)

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11:00-11:45am: 45-Minute Parallel Sessions

No. 18: City Institutional & Management Assessments (45 min)

No. 63: Operationalizing Violence Prevention in Development: Data and Information Systems to better guide policy and program making? (45 min)

No. 66: Preventive resettlement - a tool for DRM and climate change adaptation? (45 min)

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11:45am-12:30pm: 45-Minute Parallel Sessions

No. 21: Resettlement in Conflict Contexts (45 min)

No. 32: World Bank's China and India Urban Programs (45 min)

12:30-2:00pm: Lunch - Guest Speaker:Pratap Mehta, President, CPR Delhi

Please select one of the following 90-minute sessions OR two 45-minute sessions below.

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2:00-3:30pm: 90-Minute Parallel Sessions

No. 102: Evaluability – How to ensure GPSURR operations tell stories that matter (90 min)

No. 104: Supporting constructive engagement for operational results: lessons from GPSA projects (90 min)

No. 108: Agile Pilots (90 min)

No. 116: Urban Resilience - Creating a Community of Practice (90 min)

No. 126: Housing research and dialogue: (a) Kenya; (b) Mexico; (c) Argentina; and, (d) Indonesia (90 min)

No. 13/14: Launching the Global Solutions Group for Stability, Peace and Security (90 min)

No. 15: The Role of Green Infrastructure in Urban Flood Risk Management (90 min)

No. 24: Assessing Social Inclusion in Projects and Analysis: Methods and Approaches (90 min)

No. 25: Advances in M&E for CDD Projects (90 min)

No. 33/89: What works? Opportunities and Challenges for Promoting Evidence-driven and Integrated Urban Planning (90 min)

No. 37: The business case for social risk management and safeguards (90 min)

No. 81: “Smart” Citizen Engagement in Urban Areas (90 min)

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2:00-2:45pm: 45-Minute Parallel Sessions

No. 27: Thoughts on Urbanscapes (45 min)

No. 92: Diagnostic tools for City Competitiveness (45 min)

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2:45-3:30pm: 45-Minute Parallel Sessions

No. 74: Jobs and Cultural Heritage: How to Make it Work? (45 min)

3:30-3:45pm: Break

3:45-5:15pm: Activities

5:15-7:00pm: Free Time

Evening: Dinner - BBQ, Blue Grass Band; “Martinis with Maninder”

DAY4: THURSDAY, December 1, 2016

9:00-9:30am: Plenary - Sr. Director

All Day: Unit Retreats

DAY5: FRIDAY, December 2, 2016

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9:00-12:30pm: Sector-Wide Sessions

Urban & Resilience

Social Development

12:30-200pm: Lunch

Please select one of the following 90-minute sessions OR two 45-minute sessions below.

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2:00-3:30pm: 90-Minute Parallel Sessions

No. 109: Ask us anything!: Regional Development in Practice (90 min)

No. 122: Refreshing Our Values (90 min)

No. 26: Uncover Opportunities for Developing Smart Cities in Developing Countries (90 min)

No. 35: Experience and Lessons learned in improving Country System in Land Acquisition and Applying Willing Buyer-Willing Seller Approach in Egypt (90 min)

No. 79: War on Density (90 min)

No. 98: Geospatial: a business line for SURR (90 min)

No. 9: Not Love's Labour's Lost....Labor and Working Condtions (ESS2) in the new ESF (90 min)

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2:00-2:45pm: 45-Minute Parallel Sessions

No. 70: Weak States/Strong Cities (45 min)

No. 114: Everything you always wanted to know about GFDRR (45 min)

No. 86: Youth Engagement Innovations (45 min)

No. 121: Staff Association Forum (45 min)

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2:45-3:30pm: 45-Minute Parallel Sessions

No. 88: Cross-Country Exchange: Displacement Response Operations and Analytics (45 min)

No. 43: Beyond City to City Partnerships: Engaging with Sub-National Entities in Donor Countries through “Technical Deep Dives” (45 min)

3:30-3:45pm: Break

3:45-4:30pm: Closing Plenary

5:15-7:00pm: Buses back to HQ

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Please tell us about yourself.

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11:00am-12:30pm: GSG Sessions

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12:30-2:00pm: Regional Lunches with RVPs* Please note that lunch with ECA VP will be held on Dec 5th as part of ECA Unit retreats.

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2:00-3:30pm: GSG Sessions

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11:00am-12:30pm: 90-Minute Parallel Sessions

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11:00-11:45am: 45-Minute Parallel Sessions

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11:45am-12:30pm: 45-Minute Parallel Sessions

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2:00-3:30pm: 90-Minute Parallel Sessions

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2:00-2:45pm: 45-Minute Parallel Sessions

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2:45-3:30pm: 45-Minute Parallel Sessions

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9:00-12:30pm: Sector-Wide Sessions

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2:00-3:30pm: 90-Minute Parallel Sessions

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2:00-2:45pm: 45-Minute Parallel Sessions

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2:45-3:30pm: 45-Minute Parallel Sessions

12:30-2:00pm: Regional Lunches with RVPs
* Please note that lunch with ECA VP will be held on Dec 5th as part of ECA Unit retreats.