Sunday 23rd October 2005
9.00am	Official Opening Mr Tom Parlon T.D., Minister of State at the Department of Finance, with special responsibility for the Office of Public Works.
	Welcome and Background Peter Wyse Jackson, Director, National Botanic Gardens and Interim Chairman, Global Partnership for Plant Conservation
	Welcome Sara Oldfield, Secretary General, Botanic Gardens Conservation International
	Opening Remarks Stella Simiyu, Secretariat, Convention on Biological Diversity
Implementation of the GSPC - Examples of National and Regional Programmes
10.30am	The Challenge of implementing the GSPC at National and Regional Levels Cristian Samper, Smithsonian Institution
11.00am	ASIA / PACIFIC
	Conserving Native Plants in China: Progress and Implementation of GSPC in China Hongwen Huang
	National Responses to the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation in the Philippines Edwino S. Fernando
11.40am	AFRICA
	Seychelles' National Plant Conservation Strategy Denis Matatiken, National; Botanical Gardens and Plant Conservation Action Group
	Plant conservation strategies In Ethiopia Text accompanying slides Ensermu Kelbessa and Sebsebe Demissew
	Biodiversity and Plants Conservation Strategies in Morocco Dr. Mohammed sghir TALEB
12.30 pm	MIDDLE EAST
	A Regional Plant Conservation Strategy for the Arabian Counties Dawud Al-Eisawi
2.30pm	THE AMERICAS
	Partnerships for plant conservation in the Americas Olga Martha Montiel
	International cooperation supporting plant conservation in Belize Heather duPlooy and Brendan Sayers
3pm	EUROPE
	Developing a National Plant Conservation Strategy for Ireland Matthew Jebb also see: Ireland's National Plant Conservation Strategy Homepage
	National Implementation of the Global Strategy For Plant Conservation In The Pan-European Context Jan Čeřovský, Czech Republic
	Plant Diversity Challenge - Developing and implementing the UK response Chris Cheffings
	Developing and Implementing the European Plant Conservation Strategy Meike Kretschmar, Planta Europa
Parallel Workshops
4.30-6.30pm	Workshop 1: Documenting Plant Diversity and Assessing Conservation Status Workshop 2: Conserving Plant Diversity Workshop 3: Using Plant Diversity Sustainably Workshop 4: Education and Awareness about Plant Diversity
Monday 24th October
Sustainable Use of Plant Diversity - Linkages for Sustainable Development
9.00 am	Conservation and Development: The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation and the UN Millennium Development Goals Toby Hodgkin, IPGRI
	Agriculture and Forestry Instruments & Processes: an FAO perspective Bart Barden, FAO
	Science for sustainability of plant products – Lessons from agroforestry Mohamed Bakarr, ICRAF - The World Agroforestry Centre
	Developing an International Standard for the Sustainable Wild Collection of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Danna J. Leaman, IUCN Species Survival Commission
	Plant Conservation Aspects of Sustainable Forest Management: Irish Experience Aileen O’Sullivan, Coillte Teoranta
Education, Awareness and Communications
11.00 am	Raising public concern for plants, the Eden experience. Sue Minter, Eden Project
	Developing international public awareness programmes for botanic gardens Suzanne Sharrock, BGCI
	Zoo education and public awareness of plants Eddie Mole, Bristol Zoo
	Community involvement in community-based medicinal plant conservation: lessons from Ghana George Owusu Afriyie
	Conservation and public awareness programmes for plants in South Africa Christopher K Willis, South African National Biodiversity Institute
	Supporting the GSPC through effective communications Hugh Synge and Richard Sandbrook, Plant Talk
Resourcing, Capacity Building and Developing a Toolkit for national implementation
2.30 pm	Resourcing, Capacity Building and Developing a Toolkit for National Implementation. Stella Wattimah Simiyu, BGCI/SCBD Programme Officer
	BGCI Experiences in resourcing botanic gardens conservation programmes Sara Oldfield, BGCI
	Preparation of a preliminary global list of threatened plants to achieve Target 2 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation Jane Smart, IUCN Species Programme
	Funding Opportunities for Plant Conservation Through the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) Dr David A. Galbraith, Canadian Botanical Conservation Network
	Macaronesian initiatives related to the GSPC - the BASEMAC and BIOMABANC projects David Bramwell
Parallel Workshops
2:30-4pm	Workshop 5: Developing a PDFA Project Outline for a GEF Application in Support of National GSPC Implementation Workshop 6: Setting GSPC Targets at the National Level Workshop 7: Monitoring the achievement of the GSPC Workshop 8: Meeting the alien threat to plants and their ecosystems Workshop 9: Botanic Gardens and The Global Strategy For Plant Conservation
Tuesday 25th October
9.00 am	Reports from parallel Workshops
Global Partnership for Plant Conservation - General Meeting
11.00am	Peter Wyse Jackson was confirmed as Chair of the Global Partnership for Plant Conservation
	GPPC operations Peter Wyse Jackson
	Draft Dublin Statement from the Global Partnership for Plant Conservation (as a pdf document) Draft Dublin Statement from the Global Partnership for Plant Conservation (as html format)