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Support for Constitution Building in South Sudan
Constitution Building Workshop:
“Constitutional Designs for Political Power and Wealth Sharing: Experiences from
Africa”
12 – 15 November 2013 – Pretoria, South Africa
Agenda
Tuesday – 12 November 2013
7.00pm – 9.00pm: Arrival and Reception dinner
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Brief welcome: Ambassador of South Sudan to South Africa
Director of DIRCO, South Africa
Key note speech: Cyril Ramaphosa, former Chairperson of Constitutional Assembly, South
Africa
Master of Ceremony: Mustaq Moorad, IDEA Regional Director for Africa
Wednesday - 13 November 2013
Time
Session
9.00
Arrival at DIRCO
9.15 –
10.30am
Opening Ceremony
 Joan Sawe, Director of Operations and Acting SG, IDEA
 Chairperson of National Constitution Review
Commission, Republic of South Sudan
 Minister of Foreign Affairs and International
Cooperation, Republic of South Sudan
 Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Government of
South Africa
10.30 –
11.00am
11.00 –
1.00pm
1.00 –
2.00pm
2.00 –
3.00pm
Group Photo and Break
Scenarios planning and changing mind sets
Responsible
Protocol
Director of DIRCO
Andre Zaaiman, Resource
Person & Facilitator
Lunch break
Presentation: The constitution building process in South Sudan –
issues, trends and way forward.
Chair, National
Constitution Review
Commission, Prof. Akolda
M. Tier
Moderator: Mustaq
Moorad
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3.00 –
4.30pm
Analysis of trends and prospects for wealth sharing in South
Sudan and comparative commentary: Expert presentations
Dr. Lual A Deng, Member
of the NLA; Dr Pauline
Elaine Riak, Director of
SUDD Institute; Nana
Okyir, Former
Constitution Review
Commission, Ghana.
Moderator: from NCRC
4.30 –
6.00pm
Presentation: The role of the state in wealth creation and
distribution: Experiences from Ethiopia
Guest Speaker:
Advisor to the Prime
Minister
Plenary discussion
Moderator: Paulos
Tesfagiorgis
Thursday – 14 October 2013
Time
9.00am
Session
Arrival at DIRCO
Responsible
9.00 – 9.15am
Recap
Rapporteur
9.15 –
10.45am
Brainstorming session: Identifying the principles, experiences,
actors, issues and trends in constitutional power and wealth
sharing in South Sudan
Biong Deng, Facilitator
and Resource person
10.45 –
11.00am
11.00 –
1.00pm
Break
1.00 – 2.00pm
2.00 –
4.00pm
Lunch break
Presentations:
Power and wealth sharing in constitutional negotiation and
settlement in South Africa;
Roelf Meyer, former
Chief Negotiator;
The politics of constitution making in South Africa
Hassen Ebrahim, former
CEO of CA, South Africa
Moderator: DIRCO
4.00 –
5.00pm
Comparative analysis of power sharing experiences in Kenya:
presentation and plenary discussion
Analysis of power sharing and wealth sharing trends and
prospects for South Sudan.
Martha Karua, former
Min of Justice &
Constitutional Affairs,
Kenya;
Moderator: DIRCO
Winluck Wahiu,
Facilitator and Resource
person
Friday – 15 November 2013
Time
9.00am
Session
Arrival at DIRCO
Responsible
9.00 – 9.15am
9.15 – 12.00
pm
Recap of Day 1 and Day 2
Scenarios planning for wealth sharing and power sharing in
South Sudan
12.00 –
Lunch and Certification Ceremony
Rapporteur
Andre Zaaiman,
Facilitator and Resource
person
Moderator: DIRCO
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14.00pm
14:1514:30
14.30 –
15.00pm
Wrap up
Closing and vote of thanks
 Representative of NCRC
 Representative of International IDEA
 Representative of Government of RSS
 Representative of Government of South Africa
Saturday – 16 November 2013
Departure
Biong Deng and
Rapporteur
DIRCO
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