Power Talks: SRHR

Moderated by: Beth Schlachter, Executive Director, FP2020

1:35 | Anastasia Holoboff, Senior Legal Advisor, Women Enabled International
> Worldwide, girls and women with disabilities are regularly excluded from essential services to address gender-based violence and sexual and reproductive health and rights. Anastasia Holoboff highlights the key ways service providers can and must be more inclusive, and how we can all serve as advocates for better services.

1:45 | Ines Zahrina, Researcher, Rutgers WPF Indonesia
> Ines Zahrina shares her experience as a young researcher investigating how comprehensive sex education (CSE) can tackle taboos around sexuality and help young women and men transition safely and healthily into adulthood. Learning from the backlash she experienced during her research, Ines encourages more innovative youth-centric CSE research and implementation.

1:55 | Bitania Lulu Berhanu, International Branches Coordinator, Youth Alliance for Leadership and Development in Africa
> As a young designer for PSI’s Adolescents360 (A360) project, Bitania Lulu Berhanu is helping to redefine how girls aged 15-19 access modern contraception across Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Tanzania. Bitania talks about A360’s Smart Start initiative in Ethiopia, which uses financial planning to engage young married couples to plan for their futures, with contraception as a tool to achieve their self-defined goals.

2:05 | Patricee Douglas, Founder, SRHR Adventures
> Passion and drive can propel change – even when there is little to no budget. Patricee Douglas has proved this with SRHR Adventures, a grassroots organization promoting sexual and reproductive health in Guyana. Dr. Pat discusses how even “simple” work can prevent disease and save lives.

2:15 | Beverly Chogo, Co-founder, SophieBot, Global Fund Her Voice Ambassador
> Beverly Chogo, the Co-founder of SophieBot, an artificial intelligence start-up in Kenya, will discuss barriers faced by young women, girls, and youth seeking information on SRH/HIV. SophieBot, a new Kenyan chatbot for mobile phones, delivers accurate, confidential information about sexual and reproductive health (SRH) in real time. Beverly will introduce how young people-led innovations in technology could disrupt the HIV response.

2:25 | Stephanie Lum, Co-chair of Intersex Human Rights Australia
> Intersex people – people born with variations in sex characteristics – risk violence, stigmatization, and harmful practices because their bodies are seen as different. Stephanie Lum, co-chair of Intersex Human Rights Australia, discusses the challenges facing intersex women in accessing sexual and reproductive healthcare.

2:35 | Swarnima Bhattacharya, Founder, Thea Care
> Swarnima Bhattacharya founded the online platform TheaCare to create a safe space for women to talk about their health and bodies. Supporting a Femtech revolution in South Asia, Swarnima explains how feminist technology can help dismantle socio-cultural taboos in the region and boost sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) as a result.

No Girl Left Behind: Creating Inclusive Education

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

One in five children, adolescents, and youth are out of school. Gender, poverty, ethnicity, disability, and displacement are key reasons why. This session will look at who is excluded, how exclusion occurs, and what policies exist to support more young people staying in school and learning. Participants will learn about promising practices for inclusion so that no girl is left behind.

Ungagged: The Latest Strategies for Advancing SRHR and Gender Equality Amidst the Global Gag Rule

Organized by: Center for Reproductive Rights, International Planned Parenthood Federation, Ipas

Reinstated and expanded in 2017, Global Gag Rule (also known as the Mexico City Policy), has affected the movement for abortion rights, gender equality, and global health worldwide. It prohibits all recipients of global health funding from the United States of America from providing legal abortion services or referrals – even when funded from other sources – and impacts a range of organizations working to expand access to contraception, prevent and treat HIV/AIDS, combat malaria, and improve maternal and child health. Women’s rights and health champions are pushing back. This session will provide essential information on how the Global Gag Rule impacts programs and people, and discuss best practices, advocacy opportunities, and funding mechanisms for affected organizations and communities.

Capital for Women: Gender Lens Investing

Organized by: International Finance Corporation, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Women for Women International

How do we get more capital into the hands of women and how do we increase the number of women in financial sector leadership positions? By taking a 360 degree look at gender lens investing solutions – from capital management to technical advice – this session will explore the power of women and finance.

Ending the Drudgery: Balancing the Burden of Unpaid Work

Organized by: Data2X, International Labour Organization, Oxfam Canada, International Development Research Centre

Women everywhere balance unpaid work and caregiving responsibilities along with paid work. This session will explore how global commitments to achieving women’s economic empowerment take this balance into account- or not. Panelists will discuss how to better recognize, reduce, and redistribute women’s burden of domestic work and caregiving. Participants will learn about interventions that are not only proven to boost women’s economic prospects, but have the potential for scale.

Sex and Power: The Dynamics Between Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and Gender-Based Violence (GBV)

Organized by: Men Engage, UNFPA, Spotlight Initiative, Together for Girls

Intimate partner violence and other forms of gender-based violence (GBV) can directly impact sexual and reproductive health (SRHR) - from the ability to access and utilize family planning tools, to an increased risk of unintended pregnancy, and sexual transmitted infections. Because healthcare providers are often the first or only person to support the SRHR of GBV survivors, integration of screening and prevention services is crucial. On the 25th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development and its Programme of Action, this session examines successful interventions, guidance, and tools to address the linkages between SRHR and GBV.

Do No Harm: Local to Global Efforts to Prevent and Address Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Humanitarian Settings

Organized by: Save the Children Canada, Women’s Refugee Commission

Conflict-affected girls and women increasingly rely on humanitarian assistance for survival, placing power at the hands of aid workers and peacekeepers. Such a power imbalance increases risk of sexual exploitation and abuse. This session explores local and global initiatives to tackle the inherent power imbalances in humanitarian assistance and keep peacekeepers accountable to their principle of ‘Do No Harm.’

No Women, No Peace!

Organized by: National Democratic Institute, Plan International, Women Political Leaders

Nothing about us, without us! Female leaders bring critical insights to international, national, and local peace processes. This session will focus on how women are creating peace and stability in their own communities. Hear from current and former government officials and community leaders who will share actions that all women can take to ensure a more peaceful future—starting in their own neighborhoods.

Indigenous Women, Power, and Politics

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

In every region of the world, Indigenous peoples are pressured by powerful economic and political forces. They face human rights abuses, regulations, and policies aimed at diminishing their control over lands, territories, resources, and their way of life, such marginalization have adverse impacts on their cultures and communities. Indigenous women recognize that their political participation is essential and that they have unique role as Indigenous human rights defenders. Presenters will address their roles and pathways for increased engagement in politics, training, advocacy, alliances, sisterhood, and supporting Human Rights Defenders from violence.

Local Women Journalists are Transforming Global Narratives: Are You Listening?

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

Across the world, local women, youth, and people of color are transforming media markets to advance diverse perspectives, hold power to account, and increase access to information. This session consider the power of diversity in global media. Come celebrate talented women changing the way we talk about girls and women in some of the world’s most challenging media landscapes.

Film Screenings: Girls' Education

Beyond Boko Haram (9:43)
> Psychologist Fatima Akilu works with victims and members of Boko Haram and set up Nigeria's first de-radicalisation programme. Director(s): Kagho Idhebor and Nicky Milne

Married, Still a Child (1:25)
> IMAGE Plus is a project funded by The Embassy of The Kingdom of Netherlands working in Bangladesh. It aims to improve the lives of early married girls across Bangladesh. Currently it has over 9000 early married girls under the project in 3 northern areas of the country which are most prone to cases of child marriage. The project provides information and sensitization to these girls, their families and surrounding communities through local level interventions. Alongside these the project also conducts national level advocacy campaigns through various national media outlets to sensitize the masses on the situation of these girls and bring about policy changes to help these girls achieve their full potential. This TVC was produced and aired nationally though TV and online media to sensitize the mass audience, especially the government and policy makers. It portrays the struggles most early married girls have to go through due to their premature marriages. They lose their childhood and are married but still children.

Girls of Hope (3:11)
> In the Eastern and Southeastern regions of Turkey, the illiteracy rate among women is near 45 percent. For years, the government, NGOs and individual effort have worked to improve the situation. However, economic hardship and strict traditions still prevent many girls from access to education. Filmed in Van, Eastern Turkey, the documentary portrays a few girls who struggle for their education and, despite all the difficulties, try to hold on to their hope for a better future.

Tabu (14:12)
> Tabu, a school girl in rural Tanzania, is desperate to go to school to improve her chances in life but the risks she takes to get here, threaten the very thing she cherishes the most: her education. This narrative fiction was created from the testimony of young women and made by first-time filmmakers in the community of Lindi, Southern Tanzania in collaboration with the filmmaker and the NGO. Director(s): Justin Spray for VSO

Bringing Schools to Where There Are None! (1:00)
> 60 seconds to help an Italian NGO to build schools in the South of Bangladesh, where poor children can't afford the state schools. Director(s): Gianmarco D'Agostino

News Watch: Women Deliver Social Enterprise Pitch Winners

Host Justice Baidoo
Guests:
Miren Bengoa, Executive Director, Fondation CHANEL
Aruschi Khanna, Founder, Loom Katha
Matt Dickson, Founder, Eggpreneur
Rebecca Hui, Founder, Roots Studio

Film Screenings: Women in Media

Always - Generation of Firsts (2:42)
> There is a generational shift happening in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and a new wave of Saudi women is emerging. At this turning point, Always wanted to celebrate this Generation of Firsts, in a society that provides no real precedent to what they’re embarking on. Not only we celebrated Firsts by featuring achievers, but we also made a first, by entrusting the direction and shooting of the film exclusively to an all female Saudi crew. This not only exceeded every KPI set for the initiative, it also prompted more than 1,500 women to create their own content and join the Generation of Firsts. Director(s): Ralph Arida

Reel Women Seen (7:48)
> REEL WOMEN SEEN tells the story of the realities faced by women in the film and TV industry yet simultaneously depicts the necessary, possible and achievable ways to transform them. The story is set in common TV backdrops – from a police procedural to a sitcom (complete with laugh track), to a medical drama, to a webisode series. One continuous narrative unfolds through a series of brief parodies, ending with resolve for change. The project features an ensemble cast of women as widely diverse as imaginable. Shot in Vancouver and Toronto, and supported by unions, guild, industry professionals and suppliers. Director(s): Amanda Tapping

Images: Beauty, Media, and the Misrepresentation of Girls of Color (7:22)
> In collaboration with the Women's Foundation of Minnesota (WFMN) and the Young Women's Initiative of Minnesota (YWI MN), this short documentary, narrated by high-school aged girls of color, focuses on standards of beauty and the role mainstream media plays in influencing the negative perception of women and girls of color by others and the self-image of girls of color. It also covers the importance of diverse representation of women and girls of color in the media. Director(s): Elizabeth Zalanga

Mightier Than The Sword Trailer (3:00)
> In Afghanistan, a vibrant, free and independent media — nurtured under NATO occupation— has created a battleground for female journalists fighting to overcome the culture of silence and invisibility imposed upon women during years of Taliban and mujahedeen rule. Director(s): Roberta Staley

Candid Conversation: What Can Different Movements Learn from Each Other?

Host Kgomotso Matsunyane, journalist, KAYA FM
Vanina Escales, Co-Founders, Ni Una Menos
Ailbhe Smyth, Co-Director, Together for Yes, Ireland
Tina Tchen, Co-Founder, TIME’S UP Legal Defense Fund

Candid Conversation: What Can Different Movements Learn from Each Other?

Host: Kgomotso Matsuyane, journalist, KAYA FM

Guests:
- Vanina Escales, one of the founders of Ni Una Menos
- Ailhbe Smyth, Co-Director, Together for Yes, Ireland
- Tina Tchen, Co-Founder, Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund

On the Ground: As the conference wraps up, we ask attendees ‘How Will You Use Your Power?’ going forward

As the conference wraps up, we ask attendees ‘How Will You Use Your Power?’ going forward

The Power of All: Closing celebration of the Women Deliver 2019 Conference

Join the closing plenary of the Women Deliver 2019 Conference, where we’ll come together in reflection and celebration. We will recap the highlights of WD2019, see how people participated through satellite events across the globe, and discuss how each and every one of us must go home and use our power – and use it for good. There will be laughter, commitments, and of course – great music to send us off.

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Opening Music: “DJ Chmba” Ellen Chilemba, DJ, Producer, and Activist

Master of Ceremonies (MC): Femi Oke, Senior Host, Al Jazeera English

Celebration Opening: Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, Deliver for Good Influencer, Women Deliver

Video: Michelle Obama, Former First Lady, United States of America

Closing Remarks: Katja Iversen, President/CEO, Women Deliver

Special Performance: Girl Be Heard

How will you use your power?
-Carolyn Tastad, Group President, North America, P&G
- Lina Abirafeh, Executive Director, the Arab Institute for Women at Lebanese American University
- Sandy Abdelmessih, Young Leader
- Rukshana Kapali, Youth Engagement Working Group Member and Young Leader
- Diana Abou Abbas, Executive Director, Marsa Sexual Health Center in Lebanon
- Winrose Nyaguthii Mwangi, Groots Kenya
- Amadou Kanoute, Executive Director, CICODEV Africa
- Grand Chief Edward John, First Nations Summit Task Group
- Marisa Viana, Executive Coordinator, RESURJ
- Chris Jochnick, CEO, Landesa
- Helga Fogstad, Executive-Director, PMNCH
- Peter Sands, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
- Loren Rodwin, Managing Director, Social Enterprise Team, OVERSEAS PRIVATE INVESTMENT CORPORATION

Remarks and Music: Angélique Kidjo, Grammy Award Winning Singer and Activist

Closing Action Items: Katja Iversen, President/CEO, Women Deliver

Closing Music: Angélique Kidjo, Grammy Award Winning Singer and Activist

Candid Conversation with Young People

The Takeaway

Journalist roundtable looks back at the conference and a look ahead at our shared work

- Thembisa Fakude, Head of Research, Al Jazeera Center for Studies
- Kgomotso Matsuyane, Journalist, KAYA FM

What’s Next?

As WD2019 comes to a close, we discuss the way forward

- Katja Iversen, President/CEO, Women Deliver