| 5 December 2000 | |
| Participants' arrival | |
| 6 December 2000 | |
8:30 AM | Registration |
9:00 | Opening session |
| Meeting called to order: Dr Revathi Balakrishnan | |
| Welcoming remarks | |
| Mr Dong Qingsong, Deputy Regional Representative FAO RAP | |
| Opening remarks | |
| Dr R B Singh | |
| Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative | |
| FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific | |
| Participants' introduction | |
| Election of meeting officers | |
| Chair: Dr Ma Cristina D Padolina | |
| “Consultation vision, purpose and objectives” | |
| Statement by | |
| Dr Revathi Balakrishnan | |
| Regional Rural Sociologist and WID Officer | |
| FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific | |
| Special keynote address | |
| “Empowering rural women through distance learning” | |
| Prof Abdul Waheed Khan | |
| Director, Development and Training | |
| The Commonwealth of Learning, Canada | |
10:15 – 10:30 | Discussion |
10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:00 | “Distance education for rural learners: FAO vision for action” |
| Secretariat paper | |
| Mr Scott McLean | |
| Visiting Expert from SDRE/GILF | |
| Agriculture Extension, Education and Communication for | |
| Development Service, FAO/Rome | |
11:30 – 11:45 AM | Discussion |
11:45 AM | Bangladesh: Country paper |
| Ms Ripa Walie | |
| Education Promotion Manager | |
| Education and Export Promotion Unit | |
| The British Council | |
| Bangladesh | |
12:15 – 12:30 PM | Discussion |
12:30 to 2:00 | Lunch |
| Hosted by Dr R B Singh | |
| Assistant Director General and Regional Representative | |
| FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific | |
2:00 | China: Country paper |
| Mr Liu Yongquan | |
| Vice President | |
| Central Agricultural Broadcasting and Television School | |
| China | |
2:00 – 2:30 | Modality for potential partnerships to offer distance education in agriculture to rural women |
| Presentation: Resource paper | |
| Dr Madhulika Kaushik | |
| Indira Gandhi National Open University | |
| India | |
2:30 – 2:45 | Mr Wang Yibing |
| UNESCO | |
| Presentation | |
2:45 – 3:15 | Discussion |
3:15 – 3:30 | Coffee break |
3:30 – 5:00 | Discussion |
| 7 December 2000 | |
8:30 AM | “Enhancing community-based management of |
| agro-biodiversity: the role of the media” | |
| Resource paper | |
| Dr Setijati D Sastrapradja | |
| National Biotechnology Centre | |
| Indonesia | |
9:00–9:15 | Discussion |
9:15 | Nepal: Country paper |
| Dr Chandra Bhadra | |
| Women Studies Department | |
| Padma Kanya Campus-Tribhuvan University | |
| Nepal | |
9:30 | The Philippines: Country paper |
| Dr Ma Cristina D Padolina | |
| Chancellor | |
| UP Open University | |
| The Philippines | |
10:00–10:30 | Discussion |
10:30 | Coffee break |
10:00–11:00 | Regional distance-education resource: technology options |
| Resource paper | |
| Mr Loh Yeow Meng | |
| Temasek Polytechnic | |
| Singapore | |
11:00–11:15 | Discussion |
11:15 | Sri Lanka: Country paper |
| Dr Uma Coomaraswamy | |
| Dean, Faculty of Natural Sciences | |
| The Open University of Sri Lanka | |
| Sri Lanka | |
11:30 | China: Human resources development of rural women in remote areas through distance education in agriculture |
| Ms Chang Yingxin | |
| Central Agricultural Broadcasting and Television School | |
| China | |
11:45–12:15 PM | Discussion |
12:30–1:45 | Lunch |
1:45 | Thailand 1: Distance learning via satellite: lifelong learning via technology |
| Dr Chulapongs Chullakesa | |
| Secretary General | |
| Distance Learning Foundation | |
| c/o Department of General Education | |
| Ministry of Education | |
2:00 | Thailand 2: Kasetsart University |
| Dr Chaiskran Hiranpruk | |
| Director | |
| Rajanagarindra Institute of Cultural Studies | |
| Kasetsart University, Thailand | |
2:15 | Viet Nam: Country paper |
| Mr Tran Quoc Chan | |
| Senior Officer | |
| Department of (Regular) Continuing Education | |
| Ministry of Education and Training | |
| Viet Nam | |
2:30–3:00 | Discussion |
3:00–3:15 | Coffee break |
3:15 | The AIT experience on peer-learning and distance-monitoring-based training of professionals |
| Mr Nicanor A Austriaco | |
| Executive Director | |
| CEC Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand | |
3:45 | Maldives: Country paper |
| Mr Abdul Raheem Hasan | |
| Deputy Director | |
| Non-Formal Education Centre | |
| Male, Maldives | |
3:45–4:30 | Discussion |
4:30–5:00 | Preparation for deliberations on focus themes |
| 8 December 2000 | |
| Focus themes | |
8:30–10:00 AM | Learner profile: characteristics and primary learning needs of rural women and girls |
10:00–10:30 | Coffee break |
10:30–12:00 | Distance-education strategies for advancement of learning rural women and girls |
12:00–1:30 PM | Lunch |
1:30–3:00 | Partnerships in distance education for rural women and girls |
3:00–3:30 | Coffee break |
3:30–5:00 | FAO strategic agenda in distance education |
| 9 December 2000 | |
9:30–10:30 AM | Identification of key areas of action |
10:30–11:00 | Synthesis of recommendations |
11:00–11:30 | Coffee break |
11:30–12:30 PM | Presentation of the report |
| Adoption of the report | |
12:30–1:30 | Closure of the expert consultation |
