Schedule - Women Deliver 2019 Global Conference

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Sunday 2 June
Monday 3 June
Tuesday 4 June
Wednesday 5 June
Thursday 6 June

Plenary Concurrent Film Power Stage Side Event Youth Zone Special Event Pre-Con Workshop

Wednesday 5 June

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm PST

Self-Care: The Next Frontier in Women’s Health

Speakers

Jemie Shrestha

Organization: White Ribbon Alliance

Jemie Shrestha

Jemie Shrestha is a Youth Advocate with White Ribbon Alliance Nepal. Ms. Shrestha is a passionate advocate for sexual and reproductive health and rights, focused on improving access to services and education for girls. She has effectively used health education and the promotion of self-care principles and practices to challenge misinformation, cultural taboos and often deadly rituals around menstruation. She is an experienced speaker and advocate, having previously spoken at the World Health Assembly and multiple local and national forums. Ms. Shrestha is currently studying for her degree in Social Work from St. Xavier’s College.

Martha Brady

Organization: PATH

Martha Brady

Martha Brady is Director, Sexual and Reproductive Health at PATH. She leads a global program aimed at improving the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of women and girls, including research and programming on reproductive health literacy, SRHR-HIV linkages, and women’s self-care products and practices. For more than two decades, Ms. Brady has worked with diverse partners to design and evaluate health, education, and sports programs for women and girls, including authorship of numerous peer-reviewed articles and publications. She was previously Senior Associate at the Population Council. Ms. Brady holds a master’s degree in public health from Columbia University.

Chiwawa Nkhoma

Organization: PSI

Chiwawa Nkhoma

Chiwawa Nkhoma is Deputy Country Representative and Head of HIV at PSI Malawi. In her 10 years with Population Services International (PSI), she has initiated and implemented wide-ranging HIV service delivery programs, including HIV self-testing. Ms. Nhkoma is actively engaged in self-care policy, successfully working with the Government of Malawi to improve access to self-care options. Prior to PSI, she spent eight years managing clinical trials research on microbicides. Ms. Nhkoma holds a master’s in public health from Johns Hopkins University, and a master’s in science and bachelor’s from the University of Malawi.

Manjulaa Narasimhan

Organization: World Health Organisation (WHO)

Manjulaa Narasimhan

Manjulaa Narasimhan is a scientist in the Department of Reproductive Health and Research at WHO, leading the development and implementation of the WHO Consolidated Guideline on Self-care Interventions for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). She also coordinates advocacy, research, policy and programmatic linkages between SRHR and HIV interventions, and co-convenes the interagency working group on SRHR/HIV linkages.

Miles Kemplay

Organization: Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF)

Miles Kemplay

Miles Kemplay is Executive Director, Adolescence, having led CIFF's work on adolescent sexual and reproductive health as Director since 2016. He joined CIFF in 2012 following six years with Marie Stopes International and more than a decade working for global health, development and private sector organizations. Miles was previously Director for Business Development at MSI London, after leading the MSI program in Madagascar. Before MSI, Miles managed neglected tropical disease programs in Sudan, West Darfur and Liberia. Miles received his M.Sc. in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and an undergraduate degree from the University of London.

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Concurrent

Date: Wednesday 5 June

Location: Room 217-219, Vancouver Convention Center

Hours: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm PST

Speakers: Jemie Shrestha; Martha Brady; Chiwawa Nkhoma; Manjulaa Narasimhan; Miles Kemplay

Tags: Concurrent

Self-Care: The Next Frontier in Women’s Health

Organized By: FHI 360, Path, Philips, PSI

Women have long managed their own health and the health of their families – including menstruation, contraception, and pregnancy – through self-care. And despite the gender bias in most health research, research shows that when people are active participants in their own healthcare, adherence to medication and treatment regimens improve. In this session, learn how including women in clinical research and trials, product development, and direct marketing can lead to innovations in self-care, and make better health more accessible to girls and women.

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm PST

Comprehensive Sexuality Education: A Powerful Tool for Improving Girls’ Health, Education, and Gender Equality

Speakers

Aisha Ijaz

Organization: Aahung

Aisha Ijaz

Aisha Ijaz has been working at Aahung since 2008, and is currently the Senior Program Manager where she oversees the entire team in the development and management of all programs and projects. She has a B.A. in English Literature from Tufts University, and a MSc. in Social Policy and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Aisha has over thirteen years experience in NGO programming on intimate partner violence in the USA, and SRHR in Pakistan. Her areas of interest and expertise include developing and managing SRHR programs for young people, and closely advocating with the various provincial Education Departments in Pakistan for the integration of CSE in their education curricula.

Aminata Wurie

Organization: Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Rights (YCSRR)

Aminata Wurie

Aminata has been a strong advocate for gender mainstreaming in policies and programming since 2014, when she returned to Sierra Leone to join the frontline of the Ebola response. She worked for the largest Social Mobilization Action Consortium in the region, developing various community behavioural change campaigns. She co-founded the Survivor Dream Project focused on providing support (psycho-social, entrepreneurial and educational) to female Ebola survivors and conducting empirical research on sustainable community recovery efforts targeting women and youth. Before that, she worked with various organizations in Canada using the arts and innovative approaches to engage youth on gender, sexuality education and HIV/AIDS issues.

Anna-Kay Magnus Watson

Organization: Ministry of Education, Youth and Information

Anna-Kay Magnus Watson

Anna-Kay Magnus Watson is the National Coordinator for Health and Family Life Education (HFLE) and HIV/AIDS in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Jamaica. During her 7 year tenure she has coordinated the development of the life-skills based HFLE curricula for both primary and secondary school levels. She has conducted numerous trainings of teachers in life skills education and has led the development of training resources to support classroom delivery. Mrs. Magnus Watson holds a Bachelor of Science Degree and a Master’s Degree in Public Health, specializing in Health Promotion from Florida International University.

Monica Geingos

Organization: First Lady of Namibia

Monica Geingos

Monica Geingos founded the #BeFree in 2016 as a youth-driven programme facilitating a non-judgemental platform for adolescents and young adults to engage on challenges they face. The movement also integrates access to information and services. As the UNAIDS Special Advocate for Young Women and Adolescent Girls she champions the Start Free, Stay Free, AIDS Free Agenda. The First Lady works to capacitate community-based grassroots to lead the fight against HIV in their communities. In acknowledgement of her efforts, Madame Geingos was awarded the 2018 World without AIDS Award.

Joanna Herat

Organization: UNESCO

Joanna Herat

Joanna Herat is a Senior Programme Specialist on Health and Education at UNESCO (Paris), providing technical leadership and policy support for education sector responses to improve health and well-being. Her areas of technical leadership are HIV prevention, comprehensive sexuality education, school-related gender-based violence, early and unintended pregnancy and gender equality. Before joining UNESCO, Joanna worked with civil society at the International HIV/AIDS Alliance supporting community-based HIV interventions in Africa and Asia. She started her career teaching and managing theatre for HIV education in Tanzania and Cameroon. Joanna has a Master’s degree in Anthropology of Development from the University of London.

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Concurrent

Date: Wednesday 5 June

Location: Room 118, Vancouver Convention Center

Hours: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm PST

Speakers: Aisha Ijaz; Aminata Wurie; Anna-Kay Magnus Watson; Monica Geingos; Joanna Herat

Tags: Concurrent

Comprehensive Sexuality Education: A Powerful Tool for Improving Girls’ Health, Education, and Gender Equality

Organized by: Global Partnership for Education, NORAD, PLAN International, UNESCO

When young people have access to good quality comprehensive sexuality education, and have family and community support to manage their sexual and reproductive health, they stay in school longer. This session will explore how we can break down the barriers that prevent girls from receiving this essential aspect of education. Participants will learn how innovative partnerships can deliver comprehensive sexuality education that meets young people’s needs.

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm PST

Why Land? Strengthening Women’s Land Rights to Move the Needle on Sustainable Development

Speakers

Monica Magoke-Mhoja

Organization: Landesa

Monica Magoke-Mhoja

Dr. Magoke-Mhoja brings over 25 years of experience in leading women’s rights programs including designing and implementing collaborative community and international programs on land rights and gender-based violence. She is the first chairperson of WiLDAF-Tanzania and the first coordinator of the United Nations’ CEDAW Task Force in Tanzania. She is also the founder of the Women’s Legal Aid Center and facilitated the establishment of paralegal centers to provide legal aid services. She is a 2003 recipient of the American Bar Association’s International Human Rights Award for significant contribution to human rights, rule of law and access to justice.

Soledad Tlehuactle González

Organization: Association of Foresters of the Sierra of Zongolica

Soledad Tlehuactle González

Soledad is an active member and president of the Association of Foresters of the Sierra of Zongolica, a nonprofit organization affiliated with the Mexican Network of Peasant Forestry Organizations. Her role within the organization includes aiding women victims of domestic violence, helping women access education as a means to prevent violence, and advocacy to strengthen the rights of women and children as well as access to economic opportunities. Soledad is also a member of the Mesoamerican Alliance of Peoples and Forests, a regional organization dedicated to defending the land and resource rights of Indigenous Peoples and forest communities.

Kalpana Giri

Organization: The Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC)

Kalpana Giri

Kalpana Giri is a forester by training and action researcher by practice with substantive experience in development policy and practice. She has implemented environmental development projects, primarily in the Asia-Pacific Region, and has provided oversight to all aspects of research and project management, including planning, implementation, evaluation and upscaling. Her areas of technical expertise include action research, policy analysis, gender equity and social inclusion, governance, tenure and developing enabling environments within projects, programs and organizations. She excels in building international, regional, national and community sector partnerships, with demonstrated success in establishing a network of “Gender Champions” who are influencing gender equality in more than 20 key climate change, REDD+, and FLEGT policies and processes in six countries in the Asia-Pacific.

Silene Ramirez

Organization: Right and Resources Initiative

Silene Ramirez

Silene is the Gender Justice lead at the global Coalition Rights and Resource Initiative. She graduated from the University of Cincinnati, in Ohio, with an M.A. in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality studies and holds a B.A. in international relations from the National University of Costa Rica. She has worked throughout Latin America on topics related to Indigenous Peoples and Afro-descendant communities’ collective tenure rights, rural and indigenous women’s leadership, health and education. In her home country, Costa Rica, she worked with Amnesty International’s Regional Office with the program Stop Violence Against Women and collaborated with the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights.

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Concurrent

Date: Wednesday 5 June

Location: Room 202-204, Vancouver Convention Center

Hours: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm PST

Speakers: Monica Magoke-Mhoja; Soledad Tlehuactle González; Kalpana Giri; Silene Ramirez

Tags: Concurrent

Why Land? Strengthening Women’s Land Rights to Move the Needle on Sustainable Development

Organized by: Landesa, Rights and Resources

Women have played a central role in rural land management throughout history, and are major contributors to agriculture and rural economies. Despite their significant contributions, most rural women don’t have legal rights to land and resources, and are too often left out of decision-making processes that affect them. This session will discuss land and resource rights as a critical nexus for advancing progress toward multiple development goals, including poverty reduction and climate resilience. Panelists will showcase successful practices for securing indigenous and rural women’s land rights.

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm PST

Indigenous Women: Peace, Security, and Inclusion

Speakers

Dr. Mariam Wallet Aboubakrine

Organization: United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous

Dr. Mariam Wallet Aboubakrine

Dr. Mariam Wallet Aboubakrine, is a Tuareg woman. She is a current member and former chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous. She holds a M.A.S on humanitarian action from Geneva University in Switzerland and a medical doctor degree from University of Tizi-ouzou in Algeria. Dr. Wallet Aboubakrine is also member of Tin hinan, a nomadic women organization from the region of Sahel-Sahara in Africa. Currently she is in education degree at University of Ottawa, guest speaker, and independent consultant on Indigenous Issues.

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Marion Buller

Organization: National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Marion Buller

Chief Commissioner Buller is Cree and a member of the Mistawasis First Nation in Saskatchewan. In 1994, Buller was the first Indigenous woman appointed as a Provincial Court Judge in British Columbia. She was instrumental in establishing the First Nations Courts of British Columbia in 2006 and the Aboriginal Family Healing Court in 2016. Chief Commissioner Buller received both her undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Victoria. Prior to being appointed to the Provincial Court, Buller worked in civil and criminal law. She was Commission Counsel for the Cariboo-Chilcotin Justice Inquiry and served as President and Director of the Indigenous Bar Association in Canada, the B.C. Police Commission, the Law Courts Education Society and the Law Foundation of British Columbia. She retired from the Provincial Court on August 31, 2016 in order to lead the National Inquiry.

Jane Meriwas

Organization: Samburu Women Trust

Jane Meriwas

Jane Meriwas is an indigenous woman, mentor, feminist and women human rights defender with more than 15 years advancing women and girls rights national, regional and international platforms. Jane is a graduate with BA in Community Development and undergraduate in Gender Development. Jane is the founder of Samburu Women Trust, an Indigenous women-led hub working locally, nationally, regionally and internationally to advance indigenous women and girls collective voice, in policy and influence community perceptions towards women decision making. Jane is the winner of tje 2019 Kenya Red Cross Inclusion Award and a board member of the National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders Kenya and IPACC East Africa Regional Representatives.

Lynne Groulx

Organization: Native Women’s Association of Canada

Lynne Groulx

As the Executive Director for the Native Women’s Association of Canada, Lynne Groulx advocates for the rights of Indigenous women. Her passion and expertise on Indigenous rights, gender equality, human rights and economic development make Lynne one of our country’s strongest activists. Through her intensive dedication to empower women of all Nations, Lynne won the Women’s Executive Network’s 2018 Canada’s Most Powerful Women award.

Lynne’s academic background equipped her to push for decolonization in all aspects of society. She focused in civil and common law, with studies in corporate law, social justice, and Indigenous legal traditions and customary laws.

During her past two years at NWAC, Lynne furthered the organization’s capacity to address its mission “to advocate for and inspire women and families of many Indigenous nations” and defend Indigenous women’s human rights. Through effective high-level negotiations with key government agencies, Lynne is bringing Indigenous women’s issues to the national and international stage.

Most notably, Lynne has taken the lead on developing a social and cultural innovation NWAC Resiliency Centre. This culturally appropriate, Indigenous hub will promote healing and feature workshop spaces and a boutique to provide employment and revenus to over 200 Indigenous women entrepreneurs in Canada.

Lynne Groulx is a paradigm of resolute leadership expressing the full capacity of her knowledge to ensure justice and equality for all Indigenous women. Through her visionary efforts, she has embossed the unmistakeable value and power of the many Nations of Indigenous women to further the road to reconciliation and decolonization.

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Concurrent

Date: Wednesday 5 June

Location: Room 116-117, Vancouver Convention Center

Hours: 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm PST

Speakers: Dr. Mariam Wallet Aboubakrine; Marion Buller; Jane Meriwas; Lynne Groulx

Tags: Concurrent

Indigenous Women: Peace, Security, and Inclusion

Organized by: Inuit Circumpolar Council, Native Women's Association of Canada, UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples

Ending violence against Indigenous women and girls requires awareness, education, policy change and reconciliation. Globally, Indigenous women and girls are drawing attention to their status and conditions by amplifying their voices and sharing their perspectives on prevention and responses. This panel will perspectives from the Canadian National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and other examples for healing and recovery from other parts of the world.

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Wednesday 5 June

Self-Care: The Next Frontier in Women’s Health

Comprehensive Sexuality Education: A Powerful Tool for Improving Girls’ Health, Education, and Gender Equality

Why Land? Strengthening Women’s Land Rights to Move the Needle on Sustainable Development

Indigenous Women: Peace, Security, and Inclusion

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