Overall moderator:  Steven W. Sinding

The Ministers' Forum of the Women Deliver Conference brought together high level delegations from 30-35 countries where maternal mortality and poverty are significant issues with a small group of experts in maternal health. Invited to be part of the country delegations are ministers of health and of planning, parliamentarians, and representatives of civil society organizations active in the effort to reduce maternal mortality.
The Forum is designed to review data and analyze the efforts to achieve MDG5 and to engage actual decision makers in discussions about:

• why reducing maternal mortality should be at or near the top of every nation's development priorities;
• which programs and interventions have been shown to work best to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity;
• what resources will be needed, globally and nationally, to implement effective interventions; and
• what kinds of political strategies will get us from where we are today to where we would like to be in 2015. 

Session 1: Convening Chair, Dr. Francisco Songane, Director, PMNCH
11:00 – 11:20
Presenters: Dr. Daisy Mafubelu, Assistant Director General, Family and Community Health,
WHO and Wendy Graham
11:20 – 12:15 Invited discussion
12:15 – 1:00 General comments from all participants
1:15 – 2:00 Lunch

Session 2: Convening Chair, Nils Daulaire, President, Global Health Council
11 – 11:20  Resources and Financing
Presenters: Dr. Joke M. G. Brandt, Deputy Director General for International Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands and Aparnaa Somanathan, Health Economist, Human Development, East Asia and Pacific Region, The World Bank.
11:20 am – 12:15 pm: Closed conversation
12:15 – 1 pm: General discussion
1:00 -1:45 pm: Lunch

Session 3: Convening Chair, Judith Rodin, President, Rockefeller Foundation
1:45 to 2:00 pm – Advocacy and Political Will
Presentation by Anne van Lancker, Belgium, Member of the European Parliament
2:00 to 2:45 closed discussion
2:45 to 3:15 open discussion3:15 to 3:30 Tea and coffee

Session 4 – Final statement
3:30 to 4:15 – Discussion of statement
4:15 – Closing