Oil and Gas Management Conference: Programme (23-24 January, 2013)

9:00 – 10:30 Opening Session

Chair:  Dr. Kisamba Mugerwa, Chairperson National Planning Authority (NPA), Uganda

Welcome Remarks:

• Sarah Ssewanyana, Executive Director, EPRC
•  Mwangi Kimenyi, AGI, Brookings Institution

Opening Address:

• Delegate from the Ministry of Energy and Energy and Mineral Development, Uganda

Setting the Scene: Key Themes in Natural Resource Management 

Moderator:

• Mwangi Kimenyi, AGI, Brookings Institution

Discussants:

• John Page, AGI
• John Mbaku, Weber State University and AGI

10:30 – 11:00  Coffee/Tea Break

11:00 – 12:30 Experiences in Natural Resource Management in Africa

Moderator:

• Sarah Ssewanyana, Executive Director, EPRC

Discussants

• Silas Olang, Senior Regional Associate, Revenue Watch, Tanzania
•  Wanjiku Manyara, General Manager, Petroleum Institute of East Africa, Kenya
• Ernest Rubondo, Commissioner Petroleum, Petroleum Exploration and Production Department, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development, Uganda

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:30 Revenue Management to Maximize Benefits and Minimize Risks

Moderator:

 Eric Aligula, Executive Director, KIPPRA, Kenya

Discussants

•  Hon. Mary Jarvas Yak, Deputy Minister of Finance & Economic Planning, South Sudan
• Micah Cheserem, Chairman, Commission on Revenue Allocation, Kenya
• Lawrence Bategeka, EPRC
• Ministry of Finance, Uganda

15:30 – 17:30  Free

17:30 – 19:30  Cocktail Hour

9:00 – 10:30 Regional Approach to Infrastructure and the Environment

Moderator:

                        John Mbaku, AGI, Brookings

Discussants:

•  Waiswa Ayazika, National Environmental Management Authority, Uganda
• Honey Mbaringa, Petroleum Exploration Department, PEPD, Uganda
• Patrick Nyoike, CBS, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Energy, Kenya
• Ms. Marie Ange Kigeme, Project Manager, Project on Protection of Population and Habitat…Burundi

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee/Tea Break

11:00 – 12:30 Natural Resource Management and the Private Sector

Moderator:

•              Peter Biar Ajak, Center for Strategic Analysis and Research, South Sudan

Discussants:

• Participant representing multinational oil company (to be invited from Uganda)
• Paul  Adong Bith, Managing Director, Nile Petroleum, South Sudan
• Jaspat Agastiva, Director Department of  Resource Survey and Remote Sensing, Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources, Kenya

12:30– 14:00  Lunch

14:00 – 15:30 Leveraging Media and Civil Society for East Africa’s Oil and Gas Development

Moderator:

• Daniel K. Kalinaki, Managing Editor, Monitor Publications, Uganda

Discussants:

• Peter Mwesige, African Center for Media Excellence, Uganda
• Wanjiru Gikonyo, Institute for Social Accountability, Kenya
•  Oxfam (TBC)

15:30– 16:00 Coffee/Tea Break

16:00 – 17:00 Breakout sessions

Leaders:

•  Anne Kamau, AGI: Regional Coordination on Natural Resource Management
•  John Page, AGI: Macroeconomic Management in Natural Resources Revenues
•  Ibrahim Kasirye, Senior Research Fellow, EPRC

17:00 – 17:30 Closing Session

Chair:

Mwangi Kimenyi, AGI

Closing Address:

 Ambassador, H.E. Thorbjørn Gaustadsæther, Royal Norwegian Embassy, Kampala