Face to Face with Kristalina Georgieva

With Kristalina Georgieva, CEO, World Bank

ICPD: As Relevant Today as Ever — Join the Movement!

Organized by: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)

Recognizing that the ICPD would not exist without advocacy from the ground, particularly by women’s groups, this event joins activists of '94 with activists of today, particularly youth, to understand how the ICPD is relevant 25 years after it came into existence and what it takes to advance the agenda.

Re-Thinking Women’s Health: Gender-Based Innovative Science for Integrated Health Systems

Organized by: PRE-EMPT, University of British Columbia

Join us to re-appraise the global community’s approach to women’s health through a gendered lens. We will discuss critical women’s health issues, such as cervical cancer, pre-eclampsia, quality of care and service delivery. This session is hosted by the PRE-EMPT (PREgnancy, Evidence, Monitoring, Partnerships and Treatment) project (@UBCPREEMPT)

Social Enterprise Pitch: Day Two

A live competition featuring outstanding social entrepreneurs, held over the course of two days. Each contestant will have 10 minutes to convince a panel of experts that their product or idea has potential to transform the lives of girls and women. Three winners will receive a cash prize that can be used to scale up their mission-driven business.

Rebecca Hui, Roots Studio
In an urbanizing world, where finding work or making money often means leaving home, rural communities with rich cultural traditions are vulnerable to disappearing. Roots Studio wants to create new economic opportunities for indigenous artists by connecting them with multibillion-dollar retail markets in ways that protect their heritage and safety.

Arushi Chowdhury Khanna, LoomKatha
India is home to the largest number of skilled handloom weavers and handicraft artisans in the world. While global demand for handicrafts and textiles is growing, the majority of these artisans live below the poverty line. Hear how LoomKatha plans to help bolster traditional supply chains and connect these rural artisans to the global market.

Matt Dickson, Eggpreneur
Unemployment is high in rural communities in Kenya, particularly among women – which affects the health and welfare of entire families. Eggpreneur provides flexible yet stable income-generating opportunities to rural mothers with young children through small backyard poultry production.

Christelle Kwizera, Water Access Rwanda
Water scarcity and youth unemployment are two significant issues facing Rwanda. Water Access Rwanda is tackling both issues by employing young people to help revolutionize the country’s water sector with decentralized infrastructure that offers reliable, safe water at a fraction of the usual cost.

Moderated by: Janna Oberdorf, Vice President, Communications, Echoing Green

Welcome and Introductions by: Valérie Meunier, International Program Director, Fondation CHANEL

Can You Hear Me Now? What Does It Take to Improve the Health of Women and Girls?

Organized by: FHI 360

This event will feature the launch of the new PrEP4Youth videos, featuring actors from MTV Shuga: Down South telling adolescent girls and young women about the power of PrEP as a new HIV prevention option. Panelists will engage in a dynamic conversation about the role of mentoring and meaningful engagement in helping adolescent girls and young women gain the knowledge, skills and agency they need to improve their sexual and reproductive health and stay HIV free. When adolescent girls and young women are healthy, educated and meaningfully engaged, they have the power to transform their communities.

The Adolescent Girl Journey: Her Body. Her Power.

Organized by: Plan International

An interactive session, organized by Plan International along with FrontLine Aids and SheDecides, that will amplify and promote young people’s voices, and share these organizations’ experiences in addressing the barriers adolescent girls face in realizing their right to sexual and reproductive health, highlighting programs expressing/built on young people’s voices.

Humanitarian Crises and Emergencies: New Evidence and First-Hand Accounts from Survivors

Gender-based violence and limited access to essential sexual and reproductive health services remain unacceptable realities during conflicts and disasters. Experts discuss and share new research.

Candid Conversation

Can We Have UHC Without SRHR and a Gender Lens?

Host: Winifred Ongom, White Ribbon Alliance Uganda
- Eglė Janušonytė, International Federation of Medical Students' Associations
- Evalin K. Karijo, Project Director, Y-ACT, Youth in Action, AMREF

Face to Face with DJ Switch

Young Leaders Speak: Harnessing Creativity to Move the Needle for Girls and Women

Young people are at the forefront of addressing the issues that exist in their communities and countries. Women Deliver Young Leaders will share pivotal moments when they use creativity in their advocacy efforts for the health and rights of girls and women. Speakers will present their stories, followed by a Q&A with audience members.

Film Screenings: Consent

Enthusiastic Consent (2:40)
> Enthusiastic Consent is a short film that highlights how much better your night can get when your partner expresses that they are down with getting down... even while watching The Crown! In this time of #metoo and #timesup we need to see what enthusiastic consent really looks like. Director(s): Tara Parian

&you (20:39)
> In the wake of the #metoo movement, a survivor at James Madison University becomes a powerful advocate on campus after her own assault case gets handled in all the wrong ways. Director(s): Claire Downey, Taylor Autumn Herndon and Tessa Lawrence

Harnessing the Creative Community to Change Gender Norms

Organized by: Global Press Institute, Lisa Russell Films/Create 2030, RNW Media

"Artivists" are artists and activists representing the creative community who leverage their role as guardians of culture to affect social change. Artivists challenge gender norms, influence policy, change the gender narrative, and shape public opinion. But are we fully maximizing their potential? In this dynamic, arts-driven session, panelists will have a conversation about how artists are shaping public opinion, ushering in positive social and cultural changes, and rallying support for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Film Screenings: Access to Healthcare

Cause and Effect (0:30)
> Head Gear Animation teamed up with Cossette Toronto to create this beautiful stop-motion spot for Seva Canada. Director(s): Steve Angel for Seva Canada

Anjana (4:48)
> Anjana showcases the journey of a young family living in rural Nepal as they work alongside Seva Canada to have their daughter's sight restored. Director(s): Dwight Jantzi

The Girl Stands Tall (9:14)
> True story of a 3 feet tall women living in Sindh who has defied all odds so bravely that she is a symbol of strength for all other women of the world.

Diabetes in Pregnancy Trailer (4:32)
> This film is about gestational diabetes (diabetes that affects women during pregnancy). It tells the stories of two women and their pregnancies, looking at how diabetes affected them and their babies during pregnancy and how to reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes later in life. This film is for use in community health education and entry-level health worker training. Director(s): Jessie North for Medical Aid Films.

Jothilakshmi's Story (4:06)
> Jothilakshmi is a community champion who changed the eating habits of the children of an entire school! She shared knowledge on nutrition from the life skills training of the Women in Factories program of Swasti Health Catalyst supported by Walmart Foundation. She promoted consumption of healthy and nutritious meals in her community. Director(s): Jiji Kalavanal

Good Nutrition: Whose Business is it Anyway?

Organized by: Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, Scaling Up Nutrition, Nutrition International

Are schools the right place to establish new norms around healthy diets? Can social media really help change attitudes about the desirability of nutritious foods? Will workplaces provide employees with access to decent food as well as decent work? Given the urgency of global nutrition issues, specifically for girls and women, this session will put all options on the table.

WORKSHOP: Log On, Rise Up. The Power of Digital Campaigning and Networking in Your Hands

Organized by: World Pulse

In this interactive workshop where both seasoned and emerging women's rights leaders alike will learn new digital strategies and platforms to speak for yourself and build a global online network of support to mobilize around your causes. You’ll walk away motivated with new ideas and resources to grow online movements, channel your voice to global influencers, and gain greater digital confidence to log on and rise up!

Measuring What Is Hidden: Amplifying Community Voices and Closing Digital Gender Gaps

Organized by: Data2X, Groots, Guttmacher Institute

Innovative data approaches promote inclusion by measuring what is often hidden or by amplifying community voices in ways that are missing from official statistics. This session will showcase three innovative data collection and analysis examples: how community-generated data can improve public service delivery; how big data can provide insight into gender-based violence and women’s digital inclusion; and how data can be collected on hidden experiences such as abortion. Participants will learn how to find solutions to limitations in official statistics.

Listen to Women: Thriving Before, During, and After Pregnancy

Organized by: Jhpiego, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, White Ribbon Alliance, World Health Organization

Listening to women about how they experience pregnancy and childbirth shows that “good maternal health” does not mean simply surviving pregnancy and childbirth. This session will explore how qualitative data, together with regular collection of quantitative data, can enhance maternal health. Participants will learn how laws, policies, health systems, social norms and economic forces impact women during and following pregnancy, and how to create a future in which mothers not only survive, but thrive.

The Power of Stories: Making sexual and reproductive health and rights come to life

Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) is about a woman’s opportunity to decide if, when, and how many children to have, and about being able to live her full potential in a world without fear, stigma, or discrimination. The Power of Stories will use powerful reflections and examples to translate the term SRHR into something all people can understand. We’ll explore identity, autonomy, bodily integrity, pleasure, sexuality, and choice.

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Opening: Kate Gilmore, United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights

Moderator: Dr. Roopa Dhatt, Executive Director and Co-Founder, Women in Global Health

Power Talks:
- Kobe Smith, Youth Director, International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region
- Karl Hofmann, President & CEO, Population Services International (PSI)
- Jona Turalde, SheDecides Youth Champion, Co-Founder, International Youth Alliance for Family Planning Philippines
- Bushra Al-Makaleh, Reproductive Health Specialist, Save the Children International, Yemen
- Nelly Munyasia, Programs Manager, Reproductive Health Network Kenya
- Heather Jarvis, Co-Founder, SlutWalk
- Anne Philpott, Founder, The Pleasure Project
- Arushi Singh, Pleasure Propagandist, The Pleasure Project

In With the New: Diversifying the STEM Pipeline

Organized by: Grand Challenges, MIT Solve, Skoll Foundation

From AI to big data, the trends of tomorrow are being shaped by those in STEM careers today. Yet women and other underrepresented groups are often excluded due to structural barriers and unconscious biases. Hear from innovators and educators fighting to break down barriers and pave a pathway for a more diverse and inclusive STEM sector of the future.

Keeping Girls in School and Learning... Longer

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

Many girls drop out after primary school or do not attend school at all for many reasons: poverty, conflict, social norms, child marriage, teenage pregnancy, gender-based violence, poor nutrition, menstrual hygiene management, and poor school infrastructure - to name a few. This session will highlight the importance of gender-responsive education planning and explore ways to keep girls in school and learning, particularly as they transition to adolescence.