Welcome to SAES IV
The Fourth South Asia Economic Summit (SAES IV) is being organised in Dhaka on 22-23 October 2011 in continuation of the three earlier SAES events held in Colombo, New Delhi and Kathmandu. The overarching theme of the SAES IV is Global Recovery, New Risks and Sustainable Growth: Repositioning South Asia. Within this broad theme, the event will focus on a set of cross-cutting issues and a cluster of thematic issues.
SAES was envisioned to serve as an open platform where major
stakeholders of the region would be able to reflect on
issues that inform the development prospects of South Asia
in view of the emerging regional and global dynamics.
Objective of SAES is to advance the cause of regional
integration in South Asia through discussion and
deliberations by stakeholders on key issues of interest and
concern to countries and people of the region. The vision is
a gradual evolution of SAES into a South Asian Davos.
Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) is hosting the SAES IV
jointly with Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka (IPS),
Colombo; Research and Information System for Developing
Countries (RIS), New Delhi; South Asia Centre for Policy
Studies (SACEPS), Nepal; South Asia Watch on Trade,
Economics and Environment (SAWTEE), Kathmandu; and
Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Pakistan.
Partners of SAES IV include ADB; CIDA, Bangladesh;
Commonwealth Secretariat; UNESCAP; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
(FES), India; OXFAM Novib; The Royal Norwegian Embassy,
Bangladesh; and UNDP, Bangkok. In hosting this event, the
CPD has drawn on the capacity building support under the
Think Tank Initiative (TTI) which was awarded through a
global competition.
The SAES IV in Dhaka will be participated by about 100
participants including ministers, concerned government
officials, leading experts and academics, trade and industry
leaders, non-government development policy activists, and
development partners from the region and beyond.
Recommendations originating from the SAES IV will be
forwarded to the appropriate focal points of the preparatory
process of the 17th SAARC Summit which is scheduled to be
held in Addu City, Maldives on 10-11 November 2011.
For more information please contact
Anisatul Fatema Yousuf
Director
Dialogue and Communication
Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD)
E-mail: saesiv@cpd.org.bd
