Tuesday 4 June
Key Changemakers: Women Driving Change
Organized by: UNICEF Canada Join us for an inspiring discussion with UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angélique Kidjo, and other women and youth who are working to drive change, through the empowerment of themselves and others. Hearing personal stories from…
Changemakers in Action: Youth Leadership to Harness Digital Innovation for UHC2030
Organized by: Fondation Botnar Fondation Botnar’s lunch session at the WD2019 conference will highlight the Women Deliver Young Leaders Program and explore best practices of youth leadership in action, particularly as it relates to young people as…
The Work is Never Done: Lessons in Being an Institutional Ally
Organized by: Vancouver Foundation Good isn’t good enough. In this session, Canada’s leading community foundation will share what it’s doing well to be an ally to women and girls. But in a world of rampant inequality, organizations and institutions…
Men, Masculinity, and A Modern Playbook for Gender Equality
Organized by: P&G Women’s voices are louder than ever on topics of health, wealth, harassment, safety, and the right to lead, yet progress has stalled. We must do better. We need a more modern playbook which includes the role of men as we collectively…
Family Planning – A Best Buy in Global Development
Organized by: Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA), Population Council, and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) The right to decide over your own body can improve the lives of women and girls in developing countries and be the catalyst…
Child Welfare in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside: The Intergenerational and Lifelong Trauma of Child Apprehension
Organized by: Downtown Eastside Women's Network The apprehension of children by government agencies disproportionately impacts First Nations, Metis and Inuit mothers and families where deep, far-reaching harm is overwhelmingly on women. Although less…
Accelerating Knowledge: Social Entrepreneurs and Family Planning
Organized by: Bayer AG What role does social entrepreneurship play in accelerating positive change in family planning education and awareness? With a special focus on enabling youth voices, this session will feature social entrepreneurs sharing their…
Young Women at Work: Our Commitment to a World Where Young Women Prosper
Organized by: Mastercard Foundation Join us for an interactive lunchtime event that brings together young leaders and decision-makers, and contests notions of ‘expert’ by creating a space for youth delegates to lead a series of mini-roundtables on…
Time's Up: Ending Harassment in the Global Health Workplace
Organized by: Women in Global Health Gender equality is everyone’s business and should be everyone’s reality. This session will focus on the paradigm shifted needed to achieve lasting and substantive change to create enabling environments for all…
The Under-Recognized Power of Women in the Health Workforce
Organized by: Johnson & Johnson Are women health workers under recognized? If so, WHY? Is it because they are women? Is it because society under value "care giving"? This session brings together health workers and health workforce leaders to uncover…
Shaping an Empowering Narrative for Financing for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: The Role of the Private Sector
Organized by: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) Despite of signs of progress, investments that are critical to achieving the SDG’s remain underfunded, while significantly more and better public and private investments will…
Money Talks: What Works in Budget Accountability?
Organized by: Equal Measures 2030, Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH), White Ribbon Alliance Is money really following political commitments on gender equality? What are the most promising budget accountability efforts and the…
How To Build and Sustain a Social Movement
Organized by: Global Fund for Women, International Women’s Health Coalition Movements are powerful drivers of change. When they are organized, coordinated, and strategic, movements can shift public opinion, spur legal and policy reform, and hold decision-makers…
Integration Matters: Advancing the Lives of Girls and Women through Holistic Programming
Organized by: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Deliver for Good, Global Partnership for Education The evidence is clear: investing in girls and women in one area has a ripple effect on others, for example investing in water and sanitation in schools…
Women Deliver… Or Not: Breaking the Silence on (In)fertility
Organized by: Center for Reproductive Rights, Share-Net, World Health Organization In this session, participants will break the taboo and create a space to speak about (in) fertility, its prevalence, prevention, causes, and impact, as well as its human…
Unleashing the Power of Women Entrepreneurs
Organized by: Echoing Green, WEConnect International Why do women still own very few of the world’s assets? Why do women too often focus on low-profit business? Why are women business owners invisible in global value chains? And what do we do to change…
Financial Education: Building Skills for Economic Empowerment
Organized by: International Development Research Centre, Pro Mujer This session takes a deeper look at the skills gaps related to financial education, as well as entrepreneurial training and workforce development—critical themes for building for economic…
Getting It Right: Family Planning and HIV Services
Organized by: Family Planning 2020, FHI 360, UNFPA While there has been increased commitment to strengthen linkages between HIV and SRHR, insufficient headway has been made. Important upcoming studies will help us better understand the interaction between…
Sponsored Session: Empower. Listen. Act: How Women Demand Quality Health Care
Sponsored by: Merck for Mothers Education is key to ensuring access to quality health care. Health education in particular empowers women and increases their ability to seek out and advocate for the life-saving care they need. This session will explore…
Rural Women: Learning and Leading
Organized by: Landesa, Rights and Resources One of the greatest challenges identified by rural women and their allies is gaining access to information in order to better understand the technical elements of policies. This session showcases how education,…
