Tuesday 4 June
Engage, Empower, Enact: Investing in Adolescents and Young People's Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Organized by: Population Foundation of India The session will witness a conversation among policy makers from India to identify a roadmap for securing collective political commitment for sexual and reproductive health and well-being of adolescents and…
Women Together. Conquer Stigma. Perinatal Substance Use.
Organized by: BC Women's Health Foundation Women Together. Conquer Stigma. Perinatal Substance Use. will call attention to perinatal substance use and the foundational principles of Indigenous cultural safety, women-centered, trauma-informed practice…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Redressing Power Imbalances: Using Research to Transform Gender Relations
Organized by: International Development Research Centre (IDRC) This event features IDRC’s rich history of participatory and boundary pushing gender transformative research by sharing core principles and best practices that are highlighted in an analytical…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
How Advertisers and Advocates are Dismantling Gender Stereotypes in Media
Organized by: Global Citizen, Global Press Institute, Lisa Russell Films/Create 2030, RNW Media Marketing and digital media agencies create the thousands of advertisements seen in every country every day — images which influence the way we perceive…
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…
Smart Investment: Using Data to Make the Case and Track Commitments
Organized by: Data2X, Groots, Guttmacher Institute Data and evidence have the power to highlight needed investments, set priorities for limited resources, and hold decision-makers accountable on commitments. This rapid-fire session will present examples…
Looking at Innovation and Technology Through a Gender Lens
Organized by: Grand Challenges, MIT Solve, Skoll Foundation We all understand the world through by lens through which we experience it. That’s why it’s so important that engineers, designers, and technologists—who are increasingly powerful and…
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…
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…
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…
