○Date/Time: 30/May/2007 (Wednesday) (15:00-17:00)
○Location: Room 710, 19th bldg(West Waseda Building), Waseda Univ.
○Participating Organizations (Participants)

MoFA (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan)：
Mr. Shuichiro Megata, Ambassador, Personal Representative of the Prime Minister for Africa, Director-General for African Affairs
Ms. Yukiko OKANO, Principal Deputy Director, International Cooperation Bureau, Aid Policy and Management Division
Mr. Akira TATSUKI, Deputy Director, International Cooperation Bureau, Non-Governmental Organizations Cooperation Division
Mr. Kosuke AMIYA,　Second Africa Division
Mr. Yasutaka KURIBAYASHI, Second Africa Division
TNnet affiliated organizations：
TICAD Civil Society Forum (TCSF)
Association for Aid and Relief, Japan (AAR JAPAN)
World Vision Japan
Results Japan
The Japan NGO Center for International Cooperation (JANIC)
Hottokenai Sekai no Mazushisa (Don't let it be - World Poverty)
Hunger Free World
Africa Japan Forum (AJF)
Plan Japan
CARE International Japan

Observer organizations：
The Japan Platform
Dialogue & Action for Development in Africa and Japan: DADA
Africa & Shumpei Kambe Fellowship
Japan　Kenaf Development Organization
Japan Center for a Sustainable Environment and Society (JACSES)
Ex-Volunteers Association for ArchitectsEx-Volunteers Association for Architects　
Japan’s Save the Ozone Network
Association of Medical Doctors of Asia (AMDA)
Japan National Assembly of Disabled People’s International (DPI-Japan)
Yokohama NGO Network (YNN)
Africa Reconstruction Committee (ARC)
Earth BandLLC
Proact International Inc.

Observer International Agencies：
Mr. Hikaru KOZUKI , External Relations, UNHCR Japan
Mr. Shinji NAGASE Liaison Officer,　UNV（UN Volunteers）
Mr. Kojiro NAKAI, Donor Relations Officer,　WFP Office in Japan　

Chairperson：Prof. Dr. Masahisa KAWABATA, Law Faculty, Ryukoku University

【Program :Prof. Dr. Masahisa KAWABATA, Law Faculty, Ryukoku University】
(1) Opening remarks
Message from Mr. Ichiro Aisawa, Member of the House of Representatives
Mr. Shuichiro Megata, Director-General for Sub-Saharan African Affairs, MoFA
(2) Report on TICAD Ministerial Conference on Energy and Environment for Sustainable Development
■The aim of organizers and evaluation
Mr. Shuichiro Megata, Director-General of SSAA, MoFA,
■Report on Civil Society Session
Dr. Sayaka FUNADA CLASSEN, Vice President, TICAD Civil Society Forum
Prof. Prof. Dr. Masao Yoshida, Board Member, TICAD Civil Society Forum
■Comment
Mr. Shigetsugu KOMINES, former representative, ACT2003 (Civil Action for TICAD III)
■Q & A
(3) Briefing on further action for TICAD IV and Q & A (MoFA)
(4) Briefing on Civil Society’s action for TICAD IV and Q & A (TICAD IV・NGO Network - TNnet)
(5) Dialogue

Distributed documents：
�@The day’s program (Coordination Meeting & Periodic Consultation)
�AMoFA’s summary and evaluation of the conference on “TICAD Ministerial Conference on Energy and Environment for Sustainable Development”
�BChair's Summary on “TICAD Ministerial Conference on Energy and Environment for Sustainable Development”
�CTICAD Ministerial Conference, Civil Society Session (Power Point document by TCSF)
�DThe list of affiliated organizations of TNnet
�EThe list of participants of the Periodic Consultation
�FBrief introduction, Prospectus, and membership application form of TNnet
�GTime Schedule until the year 2008
�HThe draft proposal of “Civil TICAD” on October　(TNnet)
�IIntroduction to “Civic Commission for Africa” (C-CfA).
�JAfrica Alert News vol.8 (TCSF)

(1)　Opening Remarks　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
1. Message from Mr. Ichiro Aisawa, Member of the House of Representatives

2. Opening remarks by Mr. Shuichiro Megata, Director-General of SSAA, MoFA
As Director-General of Sub-Saharan African Affairs of MoFA, I’m committed to put TICAD IV in place.
There is no doubt that the inter-dependence between Japan and Africa will grows while the world’s globalization is taking further steps. Africa is also considered economically more important as emerging markets and potential natural resources.
Since G8 focuses the African issue, the international community including China has started to pay more attention on Africa.. I’d like to have your various opinions while the role of TICAD needs review.

(2) TICAD Ministerial Conference on Energy and Environment for Sustainable Development　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
■Report of TICAD Ministerial Conference
(by Director-General)
It has become customary after TICAD III to organize a Ministerial level conference on certain topic every year between summit meetings which are held every 5 years.
Last year’s Ministerial Conference was on “Consolidation of Peace” while it was on “Trade and Investment” in 2005.
This year’s Ministerial conference was held on “Energy and Environment for Sustainable Development” as environmental and energy issue are related each other, and affecting the poverty and achieving MDGs.
3 discussion points on the Ministerial Conference:
�@ Establishment of ownership
�A Promotion of regional cooperation
�B Deepening of partnership (including public and private partnerships)
It’s been widely shared as a general direction that the approach to both environment and energy issues hold urgent needs in terms of achieving MDGs. At the same time, it’s been broadly recognized that it is important to implement practices such as Public-Private cooperation, and an effort to adjust to the negative effects of climatic change.
Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs recognizes that this issue will be an important theme in the TICAD IV in the next year.

■Report on Civil Society Session
（by Dr. Sayaka FUNADA CLASSEN）
The Civil Society Session of the conference was co-organized by TCSF (TICAD Civil Society Forum) and two other African NGOs because Japanese MoFA had asked TCSF to do this before TNnet was formed.
The fact that the Civil Society Session of the conference organized by Civil Society itself was the first attempt in the history of TICAD even if it was a peripheral activity in the Ministerial Conference. Furthermore, it was quite an epoch making achievement that the Civil Society Session has reported the session summary from the rostrum at the main conference hall in the last day of the conference.
The session’s subtitle “from a pro-poor perspective”) made the underlying tone of the Civil Society Session clear. Also the session was co-organized in order to make it clear that Japanese and African civil societies work together.
The discussion was organized in such a way that 5 organizations working on the environmental issue in Africa including one Japanese organization presented their activities, and the floor was open for discussion after UNEP staff made comments. The tile of the discussion was “How to overcome the challenges that the African Poor faces in the era of climate change and environmental degradation?”
The presentations are available at TCSF’s web site (http://www.ticad-csf.net/eng/index.htm) for further information.
The most presentations have reported the negative effect of environment and energy problems to the lives of the poor. Also they presented a number of technologies, which are helpful, renewable and affordable to the poor.

(Report by Prof. Dr. Masao Yoshida)
After the discussions in the Civil Society Session, both Japanese and African Civil Societies have come to the following conclusions. The conclusion was presented at the main conference hall to all participants as the statements of the Civil Society and the essence of the statement was included in the Chair's Summary. The main points of Civil Society’s statement are as follows.
The local people’s opinion has been excluded in development processes such as TICAD and others.
The current ODA (Official Development Assistance) has not sufficiently covered the activities to reduce the damage in the poor areas by the climatic change.
The activities which aim to protect and conserve environment haven’t properly prevented the people who rely on the natural resources from being affected by energy scarcity and environment degradation.
Though one of the agenda for the conference was the ownership of community, Civil Society members were not able to even access to that session. This is a problem.
Based on such understanding, it was proposed to demand participation of Civil Society to TICAD process.

■Comments from former representative of ACT2003 (Civil Action for TICAD III), Mr. Shigetsugu KOMINE
I would like to comment on the presentation based on my experience with previous TICAD.
When I worked with ACT 2003, there were 3 preparatory meetings before TICAD III. Though NGOs were allowed to participate in such preparatory meetings as observers and had chances to present our proposal, there was no right to participate discussions. The situation hasn’t changed much because NGOs couldn’t participate in any sessions of the Ministerial Conference. NGOs need the proper opportunity to speak during the conference.
In the periodic consultation meeting of TICAD, we need to know the all the process of TICAD preparation.
The preparatory meetings should be open to more stakeholders and the agenda of TICAD should be known to many.
Let’s establish closer communication between MoFA and NGOs as both share mostly the same objective which is to help Africa.

■Q & A
【Chair: Prof. Dr. Kawabata】
Q1. What did make MoFA to choose environment and energy issue as the agenda of the Ministerial Conference?
Q2. Are the series of conferences organized by UNEP and others such as “African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN)” linked to TICAD’s environment and energy framework? If so, how they link each other?

Director-General
A1. There is a reality that the issue of environment and access to energy is the bottleneck of African development. We also anticipate that the environment issue will be the world’s common agenda from this year to next year. At the same time the environment issue is linked to the issue of consolidation of peace such that the natural environment especially water and energy resources have been said to cause military conflicts. They are the reasons why we chose this topic.
A2. At the plenary session of the conference, there were presentations of the latest practices from “African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN)”, “The Forum of Energy Ministers in Africa (FEMA)”, the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) and other agencies and regional activities, and we discussed them. Since we could synthesize the latest situation, the conference played a kind of a role of a clearinghouse. We can also expect multiplier effect by reflecting the discussion in this conference in Kenya to those other conferences and commissions.

【TCSF】
There are 8 MDGs. Out of them, Japanese government has dealt with trade and investment, consolidation of peace and environment and energy in the past TICAD ministerial conference, I believe that the conferences have never discussed directory on development to achieve the MDGs.

Director-General’s reply:
There was an intention to link trade and investment with economic development. We have never undermined the issue of “development” but rather we’ve seen the social development has been hampered by the situation of gun-battle and land mines which undermine in achieving peace efforts to tackle with poverty or HIV/AIDS issues. The past themes of the Ministerial Conferences have been a part of wider effort to achieve MDGs such as poverty issue.

(3) Briefing on further action for TICAD IV (MoFA)　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
TICAD IV will be held on 28-30 of May 2008 at Yokohama.
The conference facility called Pacifico Yokohama may be designated as a venue since it is surrounded by hotels.
The interest of African countries has been growing so that some African countries’ embassies have submitted proposals. It should be well discussed how we incorporate such African opinions.
We are considering emphasizing a vibrant Africa as a message in the TICAD because we see more positive movements recently in economic and political aspects such as higher economic growth achievements, consolidation of peace, democratization and so on.
The achievement of MDGs and consolidation of peace will continuously be the important issues but, at the same time, we would like to emphasize the establishment of “Human Security” which includes those issues as our message.
The climatic change is the important issue for Africa. Securing the energy supply is becoming the big issue, too.
We would like to have your comments and opinions through opportunity like this meeting during the preparatory stage for TICAD. We’re also going to discuss with co-organizers, international agencies, G8, OECD member countries, Asian countries, African countries (AU, NEPAD) etc for our preparation.

(4) Briefing on Civil Society’s action for TICAD IV (TICAD IV・NGO Network - TNnet) 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
【TNnet secretariat, Dr. FUNADA CLASSEN】
We had an occasion on 9th of March this year to meet NGOs that share interest in TICAD. At the occasion, there were a number of opinions that NGOs should take unified approach. Therefore, we decided to establish a consolidated body as a loose-knit network. We already had some experiences from ACT2003 or other consolidated bodies of NGOs at previous TICAD so that we don’t have to start from a scratch. We have stood ourselves with the hope to mobilize each of our strength further.
Mainly, we carry out our cooperation activities in the following three areas.
�@We hold a periodic meeting monthly for exchanging views with MoFA.
�AParticipating NGOs are discussing to hold “Civil TICAD (Provisional title)”on 27th of October, 2007 (Saturday) at the UN University. We had a positive reply from H.E.Mr. Bouna Semou Diouf, the director of TICAD in UNDP when we discussed it with him.
�BWe are thinking to carry out a programme for raising the awareness of Japanese people about Africa in cooperation with UN agencies, diplomatic corps, JICA, JBIC, MoFA and so on. We are planning to set an “African Days”, during 17-27 of October, 2007, prior to the symposium of “Civil TICAD” on 27th of October, 2007 mentioned above. Also we are considering organising some events with people of Yokohama during the period of TICAD main conference next year.

【Supplementary comment from Director-General】
MoFa designates the year 2008 as “Japan-Africa Exchange Year” and there are already ideas of holding music concert, sports exhibition, cultural exhibition, and so on. We would like to raise the awareness of Japanese people’s understanding on Africa by having cooperation of other people and organizations for whole next year so that we can have broader base for our policy on Africa.

(5) Dialogue　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
【Africa & Shumpei Kambe Fellowship】
I feel that Chinese Government doesn’t have enough awareness on the environment conservation in relation to their pursuit of securing energy source. How does TICAD consider the Chinese actions? Do you have any plan to deal with it?

Director-General’s reply:
We are aware that there are some problems in the method of Chinese trade, investment and aid in terms of African development. When we talk about “development” at any occasion where Chinese Government involves, we convey our concern straightforward. For example, at the occasion of the Japan-China Summit meeting, Prime Minister Abe has told our concern to Chinese President. There is a consensus for example at G8 that it is necessary that Chinese Government takes part in internationally established development practices. In the relation to TICAD, Chinese Government has been participating since its first meeting. Usually Chinese Government has sent an official of Deputy Director-General’s position to TICAD. At the Japan-China Summit meeting, we have agreed to have a meeting to exchange the views on Africa. We are also thinking to give our opinion to Chinese Government directly. We would like to emphasize the importance of the value and role which TICAD have and play.

【DPI-Japan (Observer)】
As you have mentioned, the establishment of the Human Security, disabled people are still excluded in Africa as a fact. I feel there is a tendency that the internet meeting of JICA and JBIC intentionally exclude the issue of disabled people. Though there are a lot of programs undertaken, disabled people are not able to participate in such programs as a result. I hope you take up the issue of disabled people in establishment of the Human Security.

【Ex-Volunteers Association for ArchitectsEx-Volunteers Association for Architects 】
Though display booths for 40 organizations were prepared in this year’s African Festa, participating organizations were asked to share extra costs because 53 organizations have applied. As the Director-General mentioned that Japanese Government designates the year 2008 as the exchange of Japan and Africa and asks NGOs’ participation, we would like the government to increase the budget and the number of booths for the next year’s African Festa.

【UNHCR (Observer)】
As it was mentioned earlier, consolidation of peace, the Human Security and environment issue have been presented as themes of the program. I don’t think such issues are far apart from the developing issue, but rather it will be effective to link together if you appeal the program has been able to follow such issues at multiple levels in a visible way.

【TCSF (Dr. FUNADA CLASSEN)】
Q1. I would like to confirm the time schedule up to the TICAD IV. Which date will the co-organizers meeting be held and when and where will the regional meeting?
Q2. MoFA emphasizes the difference of TICAD IV from the previous TICAD even at the Africa Symposium the other day. What is the difference?
Q3. What kind of collaboration do you intend to hold with the civil society?
Q4. What is the relation between the poverty reduction and MDGs as the important themes in African development, and the three pillars as you have introduced today. We believe that the poverty reduction and MDGs are not the issues that can be absorbed in the three pillars.
Q5. Are there any occasions to discuss the contents of TICAD with the civil societies?

Director-General
A1. We are planning to have 2 preparatory meetings between October and December. We expect to have a meeting with co-organizers at this autumn.
A2. It is not an automatic to have the fourth TICAD conference just after the third conference. Though TICAD was considered as a diplomatic tool of Japanese government’s for Africa, we would like to make TICAD more than that. We would also like our co-organizers to consider this opportunity as their own.
A3. We expect the private sector use this opportunity fully so that TICAD becomes a forum for comprehensive assistance to Africa.
A4. Our basic message will be the “Vibrant Africa” because we believe that Africa has a future and potential. The three pillars have been decided because we believe that the economic growth can lead to the real development, our assistance may help to fulfil the Human Security, and our help can reduce the negative impact of environmental issue. All those issues are closely related to the poverty reduction and we believe that our three pillars take into account sufficiently the importance of achieving MDGs.
A5. I think that it is necessary to discuss with AU and NEPAD, too. We would like to discuss about the contents of TICAD. It becomes more important what we really do.

【Results Japan】
In order for the general Japanese public to take an interest in Africa, we want MoFA to consider including NGO’s network as a co-organizer.

【Mr. Yasushi KUROKOCHI】
I think it may be a good idea to issue a joint statement of Japanese and African NGOs right before TICAD IV. At the same time, I would like the co-organizers to consider adding a session for the civil society in the official program of TICAD IV so that opinions from NGOs can be fully taken up.

【CARE International Japan】
As a NGO, we are happy to see that TICAD will raise the issue of empowerment as one of the main discussion points. Since many NGOs have been focusing on empowerment, I see now that both Japanese Government and NGOs are finally able to cooperate each other. Despite the general image of African NGOs in Japan, African NGOs have been growing and active. Therefore, I hope that TICAD will be prepared in cooperation with both Japanese and African NGOs.

Other 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
As NGOs, we would very much like to discuss the contents of TICAD IV. NGOs will present our ideas and we expect MoFA to consider it. We also want MoFA to confirm activities that can be jointly organized with NGOs. And please provide us with documents that explain the three pillars of TICAD IV and future schedule.
We will present our idea at next periodic consultation meeting and want to discuss about its contents and budget for it.